Forget Snakes on a Plane.
Soon commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area will be able to enjoy high-speed wireless on the train.
Caltrain said last month that it has become the first rail line in the United States to test wireless broadband service on trains traveling up to 79 miles-per-hour.
The commuter rail service, which zips commuters between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, worked with Intel and Nomad Digital to test a high-speed wireless service based on WiMax, a long-range cousin of the popular WiFi wireless technology.
With the ‘proof of concept,’ completed, Caltrain said it will now work on the engineering required to make access available along 50-miles of rail line. Caltrain estimates the project will cost less than $334,000.
As a result, the train may soon have driving beat two ways: you can drink and watch streaming video.
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