Wifi on Rapid Penang Public Bus Not Working

The Rapid Penang public bus company announced trial testing of Wifi connection on a route bus a few months ago. It’s only available on a few bus route (101 to Batu Feringghi and 401 to Airport). Only on last weekend, I got a chance to get on those Wifi bus while going home from school.

I was excited when I see the Wifi logo on the bus and quickly took out my iPod to try it out.

I found a the wireless connection, connected to it, then launch the Safari web browser on the iPod.

I waited and waited but still no connection activity and I suspect the Internet connection was not on, it’s so unfortunate. Got on a Wifi bus but with no Internet connection. That’s sad.

It’s said to run on a 3G network. I log into their 3G router modem with the default username password again and I see no Internet connection. I thought maybe they had forgotten to click connect so I tried to connect to the 3G network, nothing works.

Too bad, they just don’t do their work well. Hopefully the Wifi on bus will be up soon but then I will be driving my own car soon and not taking the public bus. If there’s Wifi on the bus, maybe once in a while, I’ll go on walking. Hehe.