We’re Not There Yet

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This morning (11am).

On an Irish Rail train.

Ciara O’Brien writes:

New record. Log on, get this error message (above) after eight minutes of doing …nothing. No streaming video, all dull wor. Also, I use the same system every day on Dublin Bus with zero trouble. This wifi is unfit for purpose…

Anyone?

11.22am UPDATE:

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Oh.

Ciara writes:

So this is the response. suggestion for Irishrail: if you want people to travel for business, you might want to fix wifi so it’s usable

FIGHT!

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24 thoughts on “We’re Not There Yet

  1. Padraig Fahy

    It’s a joke tbh.
    Anytime I get on a train, the wifi is that garbage that I have to use my phone as a hotspot….and travelling from Dublin to Carlow, there is a lot of blackspots so it’s not even worth my time…

          1. Anomanomanom

            I forgot parts of this country are still in a technology stone age, for a small country it really is shocking.

          2. Kieran NYC

            Anon – well people still insist on living in the middle of nowhere, 5 miles from their neighbour and then wonder why they don’t have high-speed broadband (and a bus service. And why their nearest town/village is dying on its arse).

      1. classter

        Nobody describes Iarnrod Eireann as ‘fast-moving’. (Is it true btw that they are slower now that they were several decades ago?)

        And trains aren’t Farady cages neither, obviously

      2. Robert

        Not so.

        If a train were an effective Farady cage blocking Wi-Fi signals your mobile phone wouldn’t work (it uses microwave signals, broadly speaking in the same range).

        Even at that, a faraday cage prevents signals from outside getting in, and vice versa. So even if it were effectively a Faraday cage wifi signal within it should be fine.

        With regards to the “moving” bit, the GSM standards take that specifically into account. Not Wi-Fi as much, but again the Wi-Fi hotspot is moving along with any devices because it’s on the train.

        Please don’t use concepts and terminology you don’t fully understand, especially when rudely shutting down discussion.

      3. well

        The wifi modem is within the cage. And should be connected to a network outside the cage, so this shouldn’t be an issue.

      4. Sheik Yahbouti

        According to the Author’s twitter account she has posted thirty seven thousand five hundred tweets! speaks for itself.

    1. ahjayzis

      Y’know what else are first world problems? Getting yoru tires slashed. Your bin set on fire. Your current account emptied.

      Presumably as these are all problems of a wealthy global north – you’d shrug em off?

      I know it’s not your fault, you just parrot memes. There there.

    2. Anomanomanom

      Why? So because someone dies in a war, or is refugee so on so on, then people should not complain about stuff in their lives.

    3. Spaghetti Hoop

      Only if the passengers using the WiFi are watching cat videos. If it’s essential for working and communications (hey, even relationships) then it’s pretty much a global problem (first, second, third, fourth worlds etc.).

  2. Murtles

    Unusual for Irish Rail to be ambiguous with information. Is that 300mb up and down limit on a per trip, weekly or monthly basis? Or is it if you reach the 300mb you’ll never surf the web again using train wi-fi.

    1. Bob

      Its most likely on a per trip basis.
      I would imagine your MAC address is logged against your quota and cut off after 300MB, for a few hours. Better till they should throttle your connection down if you breach the 300MB. Even if they did use content filters to stop streaming, downloading services, then that would do away with quota’s. Seems half arsed to be.

  3. Cian

    Get a MAC address resetter, clear cookies and reconnect. Also works for the 30min free limit in Gatwick Airport…

  4. The Real Chris

    If Ciara hadn’t fecklessly wasted her allowance watching The Gilmore Girls or whatever on Netflix she would have been able to do her ‘business’.

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