Yesterday, I took the bus to town and I was lucky to be in one of the 3 bus that offers free Wifi. The last time I was on this bus, the free wifi was not working. My iTouch was running low on battery so I took out my Nokia N95 to try the Wifi to see whether it’s working or not.
It worked! I was prompted with a Welcome Screen like those when you are surfing at Starbucks Coffee. Surfing the net on N95 is not fun because it’s hard to navigate around.
Surprise to see that the Wifi service is powered by DiGi 3G Broadband. I thought it was Celcom or perhaps P1 Wimax but good to see that it’s DiGi.
I did not surf a lot with the connection, just check on some Twitter, email, Facebook and Plurk.
The speed was quite fast for those mobile optimized site, I ran a speed test on it and found out that it’s running on the slowest 3G speed, it’s not even HSPDA yet. If so, I believe they are running on the 384kbps DiGi 3G Broadband package. For light surfing, I think the speed is pretty fast already.
Good to have such service on public buses, hope it can expand the service to other bus route. Now, it’s another reason for you to take the public transport.
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Working Free Wifi On Rapid Penang Bus U101 « Percuma Untuk Anda says:
Aug 31, 2009
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Yazrine Shahab says:
Sep 3, 2009
Hi Nicholas, just to inform you that currently there are 12 buses on route 101 with WiFi and in total there will be 18 buses all together with the free WiFi services. Thank you for your comments and hope that you will continue to use these services.
Yazrine
AL says:
Oct 6, 2009
I am visiting your great island state. Pray tell me..is it wide spread free wi-fi in the city?
Thanks.
Al