Diverging Route wrote: I also saw a 900-series car WITHOUT a sticker. So
Does anything keep someone from just grabbing the card and sticking it in their own laptop?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.
danib62 wrote:Does anything keep someone from just grabbing the card and sticking it in their own laptop?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.
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!).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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