
It's a great idea
... your going to need *something* to do whilst trying to elbow yourself into a tube, through a crowd 10 deep.
Virgin Media has now installed Wi-Fi kit in more than 40 London Underground stations as it continues to connect its fibre backhaul network to around half of the capital's tube stations – although the service will only be available at platform-level. Passengers will be able to use VM's monopoly underground wireless network for …
"Is that you every morning? How about being taking a breath, being more civilised and not pushing? If you need to get somewhere sooner, get an earlier train."
Why don't you try riding the tube first before posting stupid comments. It only takes a couple of minutes in central london in the rush hour for a platform to go from empty to overcrowded especially on the victoria line. Many a time I've had to queue in access passageways , never mind on the platform!
"Why don't you try riding the tube first before posting stupid comments."
I'm the original AC and I do, every day. Being courteous to others (even if they aren't back) costs a few minutes at most. Hopefully those people then act a bit more courteously to the next person, and eventually we don't have people acting like idiots because they think that their journey is more important than everyone else's.
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"How about being taking a breath, being more civilised and not pushing?"
I do, but every other **** still does it!
I just go to work an hour earlier than I need to, get off the tube early and walk the last few stops, calms me down before I head into Hell's Gaping Maw, otherwise known as my company's support desk!
What's the definition of a Virgin Media customer? I've read stories here before with VM offering things to VM customers that turned out you needed more than one service... e.g. Their streaming app required a TV package... and VM broadband... Will this be the same? Free for VM Broadband customers rather than VM customers?
Tried it this morning for the first time, and read through the FAQ telling me not to worry about data security on an open network because I'm vulnerable even if they were using WPA2. However,I did notice another network, properly secured,, called BBConnect. Anyone know what that is?
the WiFi base stations had their geo-locations entered into the various location services's databases. Then Apple's "Find My Friend" app might work to alert you that the person you are waiting in the ticket hall for has just rolled up to the platform, and so on. Trouble is, as the data are crowd sourced and there is not even a whiff of GPS below street level, these access points are not going to end up being included. It could even be useful for the rescue services, lost property etc.
If TFL did that geolocation stuff you could write apps that directed tourists from station to station, including directions between platforms at the station.
Would be worth it I think if it stopped even just one tourist getting off a tube train and standing blocking the entrance while gawpingly looking for the way out ;-)
I've been using this in Kings Cross for a while and it has occasionally been useful to check what platform my overground train is leaving from while in the process of leaving the tube, but it's a little clunky in that I find I have to open a web browser and let the landing screen load before any of my apps will work.
And what a landing screen too. They could have made it a mini status portal for the platform (or at least station) you're at, showing the next few trains, delays on the line and forthcoming engineering work - but no it's just a generic portal page to a load of stuff I'm not interested in.
I'd be interested to see how it changes post-Olympics - as others have said I dunno how they will define a "Virgin customer".
The internet is for Porn, which is why Metro's IE has so many ways of removing your history.
Try it. Spend sometime on eroprofile.com then give it to your daughter.
MS's Libraries containing public folders were stupid enough, but it's now clear that MS' design team have given so little thought to covering up porn so your kids don't see what you've been doing by accident, that they must be all female Tea Party members.
The tube is one of the last bastions of being able to be out of touch. Last Worst Western's train line to the west country is also largely free of phone coverage west of Reading but I can't afford their train fares.
Grumpy bugger I know but I would far rather be out of touch in the middle of some bit of the Med than completely connected here in ...
Beer because I need one.
Only at the platform? So when you're stuck for 10mins in a tunnel whilst the train ahead is at the platform because somebody has thrown up all over the floor, you still can't get signal. Sorry to all you who can't bear to be out of touch, but this is a colossal waste of time. Unless you have a real, solid connection, all the time for everyone, who cares?
There will be no charge for WiFi when the tube stations are being used as air raid shelters. When Russian Iskander rockets are falling in Mayfair (as per the Russian threat for the installation of the NATO Missile Defense system on their border), everyone will be able to twitter each rocket as it hits.
Well I have happily used it on my tablet for the last couple of days.....once you have signed up it connects instantly every time, so none of this signing in each time, which would really make it useless.
So if your wifi is on......as your tube enters the station ..... click send/receive on your email and ping it is there.
Well it will be ok for the the week or so.....then everyone on the tube will be doing it and at that point all you will see is people face pulling in the hope they are the one that gets their email.
Been using it on my Samsung Galaxy S3 for a while now and it works well.
I generally use it on the Waterloo & City Line platform at Waterloo but this morning, as that line was suspended, I used it on the Northern Line. Worked on the train, even with the door closed, and even managed to get a tweet out as we entere the dark tunnel. As soon as the doors opened at Leicester Square, I even got a reply to said tweet.
Just about enough time in each station to refresh tweets...loving it.