Diverging Route wrote: I also saw a 900-series car WITHOUT a sticker. SoNot all of the 900 series k cars are participating in the Wi-FI
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sery2831 wrote:I was in car 530 today and it has a different wifi set up than the other two cars I have seen. It also is not hooked up. This car has a green box with a PCIMA Sprint Air card sticking out of it! I did not see any type of cards in the other two cars. I wonder what the deal with this car is.Does anything keep someone from just grabbing the card and sticking it in their own laptop?
danib62 wrote:Not really, it's in a closet, but the closet doesn't require a key to get into it!sery2831 wrote:I was in car 530 today and it has a different wifi set up than the other two cars I have seen. It also is not hooked up. This car has a green box with a PCIMA Sprint Air card sticking out of it! I did not see any type of cards in the other two cars. I wonder what the deal with this car is.Does anything keep someone from just grabbing the card and sticking it in their own laptop?
BW wrote:Three of us MBCR Communications Department Technicians installed the WiFi in half a dozen coaches in the Worcester layover in early December as part of an undisclosed pilot program. I think they picked the Worcester line, quite frankly, because Lt. Gov.Tim Murray rides the line a least one day a week and he probably got to take it for a test drive before it's general release to the public (politics!).It may have been mentioned in this thread or I saw it in the paper, can't remember. But I do remember reading that they reason they said they picked the Worcester line first is that Sprint is currently upgrading their system in the area. Though I am sure the Lt. Gov riding probably played into it.
theinsider wrote:It may have been mentioned in this thread or I saw it in the paper, can't remember. But I do remember reading that they reason they said they picked the Worcester line first is that Sprint is currently upgrading their system in the area. Though I am sure the Lt. Gov riding probably played into it.Sprint's signal strength on the Worcester line has been horrible for years. There are parts of Wellesley and Newton where the signal dies. No matter what -- they are dead spots ... for cell phones and whatever wi-fi is running on their cellular network.
bierhere wrote:Coverage is barely ok in the adjacent cars, once the train gets moving and is certainly not good enough more than 1 car away.bierhere,
I'm also curious why most of the routers are 802.b only and not b/g. The g protocol has better range than b. I've also noticed that the SID seem to be random. Sometimes its Commuter_Rail_Connect, sometimes its that + the cars #, sometimes something else.
I've also noticed that the connect page is different in each car, which seem weird.
I think to make this work, they are going to need to make 1/2 of the cars enabled.
sery2831 wrote:I have only seen them installed in German cars on the North Side. The 530 car has a different set up than the rest and is not operational.John,
theinsider wrote: It may have been mentioned in this thread or I saw it in the paper, can't remember. But I do remember reading that they reason they said they picked the Worcester line first is that Sprint is currently upgrading their system in the area. Though I am sure the Lt. Gov riding probably played into it.Insider,
I have yet to see it installed in a Control car, but saw what appears to be the start on the instalation in one this week. It was a 17XX. No card or boxes but looked to be Cat 5 or similar in the closet.
BW wrote:Insider,Thanks for the info, I only glanced at it quickly. If I had to guess, it looked to be comming down from the roof antenna. It was then coiled up and there was no hot spot box or anything else installed.
No cat 5 was used in the original installation. From the wireless antenna to the hotspot box was a signal and GPS coax, and again, coax was run to the 802.11 antenna. Not much room available in the cars for the hardware and it needed to be in a spot where a Conductor's bag wouldn't hit it.