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Surf at broadband speed on the train at over 300km/h |
axxxr
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A stable Wi-Fi broadband internet connection via satellite was successfully tested aboard a high-speed train the Paris-Brussels route operated by Thalys. The record bandwidth attained was 4 Mbit/s downstream and 2 upstream at 300 km/h, comparable to the quality of an ADSL+ (asymmetric digital subscriber line plus) connection, a faster variant of DSL.
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Jim
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Edit: didn't see the full article link
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fatreg
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that is mad!
4Mbps??
and how much is that gonna cost ya??
4Mbps via satellite? OUCH!
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axxxr
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I can only guess but the charges for useage will be in comparison to current standard wi-fi charges.but i may be wrong.
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fatreg
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nah the charges must be way more than that!
theres no way on earth that a satellite driven WIFI network is gonna cost you £15 pm!!
after all its going across counties too?
i sooo need to move to france and travel to brussels quite often! LOL
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axxxr
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Yeh you may be right but with competition as with the communications industry these days i predict prices will be kept to minimum to attract customers and encourage useage.
Here's a excellent animated presentation on how the whole system works.
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fatreg
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thats so cool.
i know people like virgin trains have wifi networks on board but i could never work out how they worked.
wi-max must be able to change all this and have a span of a few hundered kms.
then we will all be laughing! 
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batesie
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nice i like the simple animation. straight to the point...
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Jim
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It's actually free ... for now ! I just hope they will put a price that everyone can afford and not only bussiness man who's company pays the bill anyway.
I had a visitor on my apache log two weeks ago and he went fast through the pages so the speed must be very good.
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Residentevil
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Free 
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Jim
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While they are testing  : http://www.thalys.com/be/en/wi-fi/pricing
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p900 lover
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this would be a good idea on the euro tunnel.
just have the whole tunnel wired and then the internet signal is transmited onto the train. |
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Posted: 2005-04-26 00:13
