News - Half of Brits don’t want Wi-Fi on the Tube

[format]

Wasn't sure which 'Glasgow underground' you meant! (Vibrant city though, over or under ground)

Unfortunately the 'other' underground isn't very shy - it's very much 'overground'

[usxhe190]

How did the world get by before mobiles and text messages. If I couldn't tell someone I was running late the world would end.

You can't seriously be using this excuse when you are posting messages on an internet forum via a computer/smartphone linked to broadband? I presume you own a phone as well??

[harryslimes]

You can't seriously be using this excuse when you are posting messages on an internet forum via a computer/smartphone linked to broadband? I presume you own a phone as well??

There is a difference between posting on an internet forum and being completely dependent upon being connected to the internet at all times like a junkie addicted to the inane.

[Zak33]

isn't this a question on Wifi on the TRAINS..... ? while they're moving? because it would be very very useful.

I hate London, I hate tube trains and I hate being in them there.. but fact is, there aint no mobile signal when I do go and wifi would be great for comunicating by email or Office Messenger.

[Zak33]

How did the world get by before mobiles and text messages. If I couldn't tell someone I was running late the world would end.

the world, for me at least ... is MAMMOTHLY busier now that it was 5 years ago... 10 hours per day aint enough most days of the week. I need connectivity every where I go if at all possible. In a 3 minute walk down the tube stairs, a 5 wait for a train, a 10 minute journey on the tube and 3 minutes back up I could receive upwards of 25-30 email and need to reply to half of them....

scary.. but true.

It's a work load issue, with multiple targets, obejetives and projects. Dead lines for this week for example require 12 hours per day connectivity. It s month end, quarter end, and year end..... and April is go live for 3 different projects.

I need wifi everywhere or it all stops for the time I'm outta circulation.

[Jay]

did an American write this article? The only people who call us Brits are the Yanks

[Scott B]

did an American write this article? The only people who call us Brits are the Yanks

What do you call us?

[aidanjt]

did an American write this article? The only people who call us Brits are the Yanks

And the Irish.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

What do you call us?

The Britains!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE

[peterb]

Crushed walnut shells were used to clean the compressor blades on marinised gas turbines in the early days of gas turbine marine propulsion. (They were very slightly abrasive and were introduced in the air intakes to remove the salt deposits, and then they burned in the combustion chambers)

Edit: A quick google search shows it still has a use, although preference ow is water/detergent washing

[Iron Sights]

More like half of brits dont want their browser history hacked into

[j.o.s.h.1408]

How did the world get by before mobiles and text messages. If I couldn't tell someone I was running late the world would end.

And how did the world get by without internet, computers, electricity etc etc.

See, i can say the same thing

[kingpotnoodle]

And how did the world get by without internet, computers, electricity etc etc.

See, i can say the same thing

Somehow humanity survived before it developed coherent speech, communicating by waving sticks or whatever... we can manage without it all quite nicely... but 'managing' is not necessarily the optimal state, why shun things because they are new?

Having said that tube Wi-Fi is a crap idea, more people dawdling about and walking into you whilst they look at something other than where they are going, more people requiring the space someone else could stand in for their laptop or iPad to be nicely positioned... never mind that it'll probably be dog slow, expensive and you'll barely log on before you have to get off the train...

[Saracen]

And the Irish.

That's not what the Irish I know call us.

[usxhe190]

Having said that tube Wi-Fi is a crap idea, more people dawdling about and walking into you whilst they look at something other than where they are going, more people requiring the space someone else could stand in for their laptop or iPad to be nicely positioned... never mind that it'll probably be dog slow, expensive and you'll barely log on before you have to get off the train...

The above doesn't make much sense other than the speed to me because, currently, in the tube:

1. We have 3G and wifi on many streets and shops.
2. We have newspapers in the Underground.

On the speed, who knows.

[aidanjt]

That's not what the Irish I know call us.

Not I! Honest!