Hi, This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses. My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed. I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked. I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL Cheers...
Now that is some good news to kick off my 2013 B-) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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Must be Spanish coaches who even have tablets on board for the VIP seats. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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Did your friend try to figure out which network the WiFi was running on? There is a day I did NBO-MSA in a bus and was using Safaricom 3G and I'd either lose the signal or it would downgrade to EDGE at certain sections of the journey. I am therefore pessimistic about "the signal was stable all through"portion of the experience. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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@Washington the only isp that has coverage countrywide is Safaricom, (I stand to be corrected) so the possibility of having stable connection is unattainable even on regular gsm connections at some point the signals 'dims' out With Kind Regards Calvin On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
Did your friend try to figure out which network the WiFi was running on?
There is a day I did NBO-MSA in a bus and was using Safaricom 3G and I'd either lose the signal or it would downgrade to EDGE at certain sections of the journey.
I am therefore pessimistic about "the signal was stable all through"portion of the experience.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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*2013/1/7 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> *
*Did your friend try to figure out which network the WiFi was running on?
There is a day I did NBO-MSA in a bus and was using Safaricom 3G and I'd either lose the signal or it would downgrade to EDGE at certain sections of the journey.
I am therefore pessimistic about "the signal was stable all through"portion of the experience.*
Apparently free wifi on board MSA-NBI buses is the new trend. Oxygen bus has this too. A colleague managed do some fairly good video skype aboard one of them last Friday. Just as Wash says, we noticed that the signal died out at some points of the journey. My guess is that they are using Safaricom 3G. I may be wrong. Reason? : Queen bee is the only network I know that claims to have the full stretch of MSA-NBO highway covered by their 3G network. They used to blow their trumpet on that a few years back. As for the hardware, any guess on what's involved? I'd go for the Orange-Domino-like cheap solution; but there's there's a constraint on the number of concurrent connected devices, leading to a need to have several of those dongles. If I had a bus on that route, I'd invest in a dirt cheap netbook/tablet (to make use of the battery life) + connectify (to weed out the limitation I pointed out earlier) + Mobile 3G data plan) :D Anyone with a better poor man's bare-bones solution? I'm looking at the possibility of incorporating the Raspberry Pi on this.... [?][?]
I have plugged a router (3G/edge) - safaricom in my boot, driving to Mombasa has my devices all online. my passengers were online more than 3/4 parts of the journey so yay!. I didnt expect anything like it and edge/gprs filled in the 3G void very well. Its not like we have on road emergencies but its nice to know you can stop anywhere on that road and be online..... On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
*2013/1/7 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> *
*Did your friend try to figure out which network the WiFi was running on?
There is a day I did NBO-MSA in a bus and was using Safaricom 3G and I'd either lose the signal or it would downgrade to EDGE at certain sections of the journey.
I am therefore pessimistic about "the signal was stable all through"portion of the experience.*
Apparently free wifi on board MSA-NBI buses is the new trend. Oxygen bus has this too. A colleague managed do some fairly good video skype aboard one of them last Friday. Just as Wash says, we noticed that the signal died out at some points of the journey.
My guess is that they are using Safaricom 3G. I may be wrong. Reason? : Queen bee is the only network I know that claims to have the full stretch of MSA-NBO highway covered by their 3G network. They used to blow their trumpet on that a few years back.
As for the hardware, any guess on what's involved? I'd go for the Orange-Domino-like cheap solution; but there's there's a constraint on the number of concurrent connected devices, leading to a need to have several of those dongles. If I had a bus on that route, I'd invest in a dirt cheap netbook/tablet (to make use of the battery life) + connectify (to weed out the limitation I pointed out earlier) + Mobile 3G data plan) :D
Anyone with a better poor man's bare-bones solution? I'm looking at the possibility of incorporating the Raspberry Pi on this.... [?][?]
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This has been there for some time. I noticed the Syokimau train is also offering though I didn't try to use but was provided with a wifi code. On 1/7/2013 7:43 AM, Nick Developer wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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This is great news! Can actually work on a project as I go to Mombasa and have my regular 8 hour working day. Better than wasting a day just sitting or spending on a flight. On 8 January 2013 11:30, James Kagwe <kagwejg@gmail.com> wrote:
This has been there for some time. I noticed the Syokimau train is also offering though I didn't try to use but was provided with a wifi code.
On 1/7/2013 7:43 AM, Nick Developer wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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Buses headed to western will soon have bakeries. For chai na mkate. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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Jamal, You couldn't have nailed it any better... This made my morning. -- Regards, Mike Muraguri M: + 254 722 799445 On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:36 PM, ibtisam jamal <ibty.jamal@gmail.com> wrote:
Buses headed to western will soon have bakeries. For chai na mkate.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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Anyone who used this and it worked all. all the way or somewhere the way? On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Mike Muraguri <mickie.mic@gmail.com>wrote:
Jamal,
You couldn't have nailed it any better... This made my morning.
-- Regards, Mike Muraguri M: + 254 722 799445
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:36 PM, ibtisam jamal <ibty.jamal@gmail.com>wrote:
Buses headed to western will soon have bakeries. For chai na mkate.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Nick Developer <niodanga@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi,
This weekend I escorted a friend to board a bus to Mombasa. I was really impressed that nowadays buses to Mombasa have free WiFi on their buses.
My friend actually owns a laptop and she assures me the internet was stable all through the journey and had great download speed.
I think Mombasa Raha has really pulled up their socks. Tourists really loved the idea and all the buses that have free WiFi were booked.
I wonder when will such services offered on Buses heading to Western... HEHEHE. LOL
Cheers...
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Calvin Omari -
Eva Kimathi -
ibtisam jamal -
James Kagwe -
Jangita Nyagudi -
John Gitau -
Mickey Mickey -
Mike Muraguri -
Mutheu Kisilu -
Nick Developer -
Odhiambo Washington -
Tony Likhanga