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Unread 27-03-2012, 17:27   #3
Colm Moore
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Originally Posted by eain View Post
I know the wireless rollout for the Rosslare/Dublin line was discussed here some time ago and presented a lot of technical difficulties. Is this something that we will ever see on this line. I am happy enough with the coverage of 02 in the ipad and Vodafone on the work iphone. Between them I can work away for a good percentage of the journey but the areas of no or poor reception make it challenging to keep on conference calls etc.
The signal the train uses piggybacks on the mobile phone network, so while the train has certain advantages over a dongle - bigger aerial, higher up, it can't see through mountains, which is one factors that the Rosslare route suffers from more than others.
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