Spaced Out ::

The good people at East Midlands Trains run an occasionally satisfactory service that I sometimes frequent. They offer free wifi which really must be a relatively “no cost” service for them to provide. For First Class passengers this is free probably because it provides some differentiation and excuse to charge the higher price tickets. Anyway (and thanks son!) their trains have mixed first/standard class seats which means, if you share the coach, you share the wifi. It works well, varies between fast and slow broadband speeds and operates in tunnels. All-in-all better than relying on mobile. It’d be interesting to know what the contention ratio is like and, in fact, what connection they use out on to the wired network. Useful tip of the week!