STrRedWolf wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:42 am
Okay, in that case, I can see a celluar/wifi mesh in each car and Starlink in the cafe.
Don't people realize that in a metal skin passenger car that you are in a Farraday cage, where radio waves cannot penetrate. You have to have an antenna outside the car, usually on the roof, and a cable into the car to a receiver/modem/wifi transmitter. That's is why old club cars with radios back in the days had a radio antenna on its roof. Back then, just for receiving AM radio broadcasts in the club car. That is also why wifi is best in the cafe/club cars today. Riders today could care less about radio.
If you want great wifi everywhere, you will need an antenna on every roof with its own wifi modem, or run cat 5 cables between every rail rail car with wifi modems as well. How much more do you want to pay for your fare tickets to ride the train. Electronics and their maintenance issues cost money.
Are we the taxpayers funding intercity train transportation or communications?