On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:52:40AM +0100, Spyke wrote:

What is annoying is that you have to go to the Virgin Media wi-fi
landing page before it'll send any other traffic, even if you were just
using the wi-fi at the next station along!

Dunno about you, but *I* don't have to do that. Their page seems to pop
up randomly once every several days.

--
David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice

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teenager's parent and ignore the teenager
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Roland Perry wrote:
I gave this the "mystery shopper" treatment at Westminster and all
stations to Kings Cross (via Victoria).

Saturday: Finsbury Park to Vauxhall, Victoria line
FP: no signal

KX-Victoria, in stations: connected to wifi, but VM landing page said
'something went wrong, make sure cookies are enabled on your phone'. Didn't
do anything else (needless to say, they were enabled)

Can't remember if there was any signal south of Victoria.

Sunday:
Waterloo Bakerloo corridor: no signal

Northern line Waterloo northbound platform:
successfully received login page, signed up, no problems, could see Google

Waterloo-Tottenham Court Road, Northern Line stations:
Connected OK, but couldn't connect to websites

Tottenham Court Road to Bank, Central Line.
Worked fine in stations.


So not quite 'nul points', but not terribly useful. On Android the time
from emerging from the tunnel to rescanning and connecting is about 70% of
the dwell time in the station - you have about 15-20s of doors closing and
pulling out of the station before the signal goes again. When it worked it
was enough to check train times (with a pre-entered URL - eg
traintimes.org.uk/kgx/edb ) but not much that requires interaction.

Theo

I have noticed that the signal stays at four bars when one sits in the
carriage; it goes down to three bars in the tunnel, then dwindles
fairly slowly down to zero. Perhaps if one got on at Leicester Square
and alighted at Covent Garden the signal would be continuous.