Well, all I can say is at least it's free. And now I remember why I rarely used to pay for it before - back when GNER rand the East Coast Mainline franchise. Since National Express East Coast have taken over, they've put the prices up, but made the WiFi free. To be fair, last time I used it, it was quite good. However, that was on a fairly quiet train home, and this one is full of people (like me...) commuting to London on a Monday morning. It took me about an hour to get connected to the access point, and now I'm connected, speeds are dire. So, there goes my plan to find a boarding holiday on the way down to London this morning.

On a vaguely technical note, rather than a pure rant, I wonder whether the weather is partly to blame (alongside all those business users)? It's somewhat misty outside - in fact, it looks like there's no world beyond the fence running alongside the track. As far as I recall, the connection is provided via satellite, with GSM data backup. That was certainly the case when GNER launched the service - maybe with the proliferation of 3G and HSDPA, they've switched to that instead?

Oh well. Fingers crossed this posts OK and doesn't timeout...