Maybe you will be using some of the older Southern Pacific (SP) lines
as you go. Sprint was SPradioInternal IIRC. something like that -
was a microwave line across the whole train system - then someone thought
why not sell time.... Sprint started and haven't looked back.

In the old days there was the long multiple delay along the train tracks....

Martin

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Ignoramus32753 wrote:
On 2008-08-08, Jim Chandler wrote:
According to the AMTRAK site it stops in Emeryville and doesn't go by Davis.

it does 4:42 pm

I knew that! That will teach me to read more carefully. I forgot that
Emeryville was near OAKLAND and not SACRAMENTO (and I used to live in
Vacaville). Whatever! Enjoy the trip. My question is, how are you
managing to stay connected?


I have a Linux laptop and use "Sprint wireless broadband" card called
"sierra". This thing is awesome, works fast near Chicago, sometimes it
is slow, and sometimes it does not work at all due to no coverage (in
rural areas), but it is great to have. I have no idea how long into
the trip it will work, but so far, I would say it worked 70% of time
outside of Chicago area. Slow is fine with me, since I can easily work
over a slow ssh connection. In the Chicago area, it works very
well. In some other areas it is slow due to using some more inferior
type of connection.



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