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Do you guys even take public transit? When's the last time you saw someone get mugged on the bus? Maybe I'm wrong, but this sounds like the kind of dumb "riding the bus is scary!" stuff you only ever hear from people who don't actually ride the bus.]]>Aug 28th 2006 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.sorta.com/news/2006/nr14.html
Cincinnati's Metro has been testing free wifi on a couple buses in cooperation with Lily Pad http://www.lilypadusa.org/
However for some reason my psp doesn't like to connect :(]]>Aug 28th 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 28th 2006 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
Sorry, I will pass.]]>Aug 28th 2006 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 28th 2006 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
West Oakland...Stand Up!!]]>Aug 29th 2006 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002477153_wifi07m.html]]>Oct 25th 2006 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
AC Transit stands for Alameda-Contra Costa, which is the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, etc.). The AC buses that come into San Francisco would have nothing to do with GooLink except for the first or last few blocks of their trip to the East Bay Terminal just south of SF Financial District by the bridge footings.]]>Aug 28th 2006 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 28th 2006 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
There's not enough room. You can barely hold a newspaper on the more popular routes due to crowding. At least that's the case in SF.

The target audience here is probably handheld device users. Look around on a Muni bus, and people are constantly tapping and thumbing away.

Isn't WiMax supposed to solve the wifi everywhere problem? This wifi on the bus idea is a solution in search of a problem.]]>Aug 28th 2006 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/It is certainly not on the bus that the mugging would take place. It is a most definite possibility after you leave the bus that enterprising young unemployeds (read "gang members") would follow you and follow Davix's assesment.]]>Aug 28th 2006 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
I'm using EvDO. Free wifi would be infinitely cheaper, and probably faster and more reliable.]]>Aug 28th 2006 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
This is nothing new guys, just becase the hippies in SF finally got around to something doesn't make it new to the world.

(just one more reason to hate hippies, damn't just get a job like the rest of us)]]>Aug 28th 2006 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 28th 2006 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
Davix - where to start? you're an idiot.

everyone else: the AC Transit Transbay busses are mostly those MCI Coaches, not like the old school GM style standard street model pictured.

http://www.actransit.org/images/riderinfo/transbay/mci_coach.gif
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Bay area commuter trains have had wifi cars for years, and I never heard anyone voice concerns about robbery. I know Starbucks have had problems with laptops, but that is mostly a crime of convenience as people don't mind their laptop when they go to the counter or bathroom.
]]>Aug 28th 2006 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Also, homeless, low class, middle class, upper middle class and even the rich sometimes use public transportation in SF - It's much easier sometimes compared to finding parking and/or driving drunk. Many of the busses also have bike racks on the front to encourage reducing car traffic. It's a nice system for the most part. And unless its a packed bus, there is indeed space to use your laptop - expecially in the forward facing seats.]]>Aug 28th 2006 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 29th 2006 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
One more comment is that a lot of folks who ride the DB get on Caltrain, which already has WiFi. And a lot of U riders come from the Altamont Commuter Express, which already has WiFi. So if AC Transit's plans come to fruition, long distance riders will have terminus-to-terminus connectivity, which might make lugging a laptop worthwhile.]]>Aug 29th 2006 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
There is no way using a laptop woill get you mugged... and about shopping carts littering the streets in Oakland,,, please people don't belive that]]>Aug 29th 2006 1:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 30th 2006 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/
You're probably also the same people who boot innocent people off the plane for looking suspicious/Middle Eastern (as apparently everyone from the Middle-East or Soutwest Asia is now seemingly seen as).

Guys, take the panties off and grow a pair. Then make comments based on certainty and hard evidence rather than conjecture, rumor, stereotypes and predicated on fear. If I wanted that level of insipid reporting, I'd watch Fox News.]]>Aug 29th 2006 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/bay-area-bus-fi-scheme-to-dish-out-free-mobile-internet/Aug 29th 2006 11:15AM