This is a REALLY cool new benefit of my daily commute on Rochester City Lines. We now have WiFi on the bus!
I took a little video of one of my bus buddies, Dave, asking him what he thinks about this new service, and tried uploading to YouTube while we were traveling. I will likely be posting that video likely when I get home, because with the speed of the connection I have my doubts as to whether it will be done by the time I get off the bus.
This is a combination that show both how cool the Flip video camera is, and what you can do with bus WiFi.
I will say that the speed of the WiFi is slow (at least today.) So when I call this high-speed blogging, it’s referring to my velocity through space (about 60 mph), not the bandwidth. I’m just going to publish now, and will embed the video from home.
Video blogging may not be the best commuting application, but I’m thinking Twittering would be great.
Thanks to Rochester City Lines for providing this new service!
Updated: Here’s the video referenced above. Not likely to become a viral sensation, but an example of what you can do really quickly with the Flip (and with mobile WiFi on the bus.) Considering that I started this post about 90 minutes ago, it’s not too bad. You get to see what this bus-WiFi unit looks like, and I get to embarrass my buddy Dave.
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Lee,
You can twitter on your commute without Wi-fi, via text messages. But I like the direction you’re going with this!
Yes…I’ve used both txt and Twittermail to send tweets on the bus or at the airport, and I really like what Twittermail does, but the cool thing with bus wifi is I can see everyone else’s tweets and follow links. I’m looking forward to when they have wifi on airlines, although with that crowd they had better be sure they have enough pipeline or they’ll cause frustration.
There is some value to not being connected when you’re on a plane…some uninterrupted time to think…but having the opportunity to connect would be nice.