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The underground platform wifi from mobile companies seems better than main London terminal "Free Station Wifi". On train wifi is bad every time I've tried it.
by gadders 2y ago
The underground platform wifi from mobile companies seems better than main London terminal "Free Station Wifi".
On train wifi is bad every time I've tried it.
- philjohn 2y agoAnd on parts of the Northern Line (between Euston and Charring Cross) there's now even 5G down there.
- gadders 2y agoYeah. I get better cellular reception on the Jubilee Line than I do on South Eastern trains.
- matt-p 2y agoThe issue with on train wifi is the companies see it as a pure cost centre and aren't incentivised to provide a quality product there. Some have even turned it off! The on train hardware is usually half decent but they typically go with the cheapest tender for the operation of it. This is the kind of BS you get when you have private companies run parts of your infrastructure. Imagine the productivity gain of millions of journeys where users can reliably access fast internet. In most cases stumping for a quality multi sim provider, maybe a 5G upgrade and decent bandwidth allowance and support would get you most the way to that. WCML for example already has really decent coverage on my phone doing tethering but somehow onboard wifi is unusable, despite the train having multi sim multi radio hardware and special external antennas.