Gobus and Citylink On-Board WiFi Fail

19 Jun

Internet, Personal

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The image above shows the closest I could get from the WiFi service on board of a gobus coach… That was after accepting the terms and conditions and answering questions about my opinion about the service. Yes, they did ask my opinion about it before I even used the damn thing…

Now it’s safe to say the service wasn’t that good, don’t you think?

I got all hyped up when I got the news that Gobus would start providing free on-board WiFi and was eager to test it. And now that I actually get to do it, it just doesn’t work. Big fail.

Well, at least I do have an opinion now, if they ask me again.

UPDATE: On the way back I tried to use the Citylink service, and didn’t work either. And it seems they’re both using the same system (fleetconnect). Well, considering that I have friends who managed to get it working, I’m wondering if it’s some kind of operating system incompatibility.

4 Responses to “Gobus and Citylink On-Board WiFi Fail”

  1. Grealish June 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM #

    You can still give your opinion wtihout actually sitting on there bus!
    https://portal.moovmanage.com/callinan-coaches/connect.php
    Enjoy!
    btw, it’s more of a Vodafone Ireland problem then anything else, system works, when the operators the support it work, unfortunately thats often not the case in Ireland :(

    • Farinha June 28, 2009 at 10:43 PM #

      I keep hearing about people who got it to work. Which makes me think even more that the problem is on my end. Bummer! It was better when I could blame it on someone else…

  2. B Borg April 16, 2010 at 5:34 PM #

    It works on my laptop – intermittently. The connection drops regularly, it runs at dial up speeds, and it’s difficult to get much ‘proper’ browsing done. A poor service so far

    • Farinha April 16, 2010 at 7:17 PM #

      I eventually managed to get it to work since I wrote this post. But as you say, the connection was quite slow and unreliable.