rixxworking from a train is always so fun
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Hiker@hiker the ten seconds out of order ping while standing still near a train station is just physics? Germany has a really fancy special physics engine, then.
@rixx Wait a minute, you didn't say the train had come to a stop. And by the way—I'm writing from Switzerland.
@hiker I'm pretty sure a 10s ping is never "physics", so long as you're staying on earth.
My reference to Germany was on account of the location of my train. If train WiFi on Swiss trains is usually this bad, then I'm really sorry to hear that.
@rixx Wi-Fi on the train has to come from somewhere—Wi-Fi cables haven't been invented yet. So the data has to come through the mobile network, and that's where geography and topology play a key role.
SpaceLifeFormIt appears there are some tunnels.
Tobias
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KawaiiPunk@rixx ur terminal is like a medieval scroll
Sigma
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bold choice of font
Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
Spring Jo 🥚 
🍀@rixx what font is that? 👀
Айсылу 
Agnieszka R. Turczyńska@rixx Do ICMP packets make knocking noises when crossing network segments boundaries? 
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Delta Chat@rixx true story: we regard German train rides and using wifi there as a good test bed for our networking code's ability to work in slow and malfunctioning networks. For example two travelling contributors messaged and established p2p realtime networking between two high speed running ICE trains, to test robustness and reconnection fitness :)
Luck Goddess 🌒🌕🌘 (They/She)
dwardoric@dwardoric @delta @rixx WIFIonICE is just, in my experience, a lot more reliable than WiFi@DB and friends.
Benedikt Neuzweig@follpvosten @dwardoric @delta @rixx ICE has a higher capacity, but it depends on the number of passengers. It will also crash on busier stations as everyone and their granddad will join the network automatically.
Uckermark MacGyver 
@maxheadroom @delta @daniel_bohrer @rixx
I mean for me it is somewhat crazy that you move with 300 km / h and can still send packages around the globe. Just to soften the #DB bashing that could ensue from this thread.
How hard is this from an engineering point of view? I guess wifi on airplanes works too, but there I guess satellite connection is more reliable. Okay I really know very little about this. Another rabbit hole opening up.
Daniel Bohrer@TheSecondVariation @maxheadroom @delta @rixx DB doesn't own the mobile phone networks, so I guess there's no need to bash them in this thread. :) This is a problem with different infrastructure companies.
@daniel_bohrer @TheSecondVariation @maxheadroom @delta as in this case, the problem was with the local infra and not with the mobile network, I feel like some amount of criticism would be warranted
@rixx @daniel_bohrer @TheSecondVariation @maxheadroom @delta Their onboard wifi infra is 💩
Bad mobile network coverage is a compounding problem. It’s not like both things aren‘t solvable - outside of Germany these are mostly solved problems. There are even rumors that you can operate a public wifi without a captive portal breaking stuff. Whoa! 🤯
Bad mobile network coverage is a compounding problem. It’s not like both things aren‘t solvable - outside of Germany these are mostly solved problems. There are even rumors that you can operate a public wifi without a captive portal breaking stuff. Whoa! 🤯
@nblr @rixx @daniel_bohrer @maxheadroom @delta I can only speak for France, Spain and Morocco. I went through these countries recently with the train and the network was on par (France) or pretty much non existent as in Spain and Morocco.
Obviously its more or less my anecdotal experience level, but maybe you can back up your claims with facts. This is not meant offensively, just curious.
@TheSecondVariation @maxheadroom @delta @daniel_bohrer @rixx 300 km/h is just too fast for 4G let alone 5G. That's why Deutsche Bahn cooperated with carriers to install special infrastructure (mostly repeaters and specialized antennas): https://newsroom.vodafone.de/vodafone-sorgt-fuer-besseren-mobilfunkempfang-in-den-ice-zuegen
@benedikt_lauenburg @TheSecondVariation @maxheadroom @delta @daniel_bohrer The amount of time spent at 300km/h on a German ICE inside Germany is *very* limited.
Notably the screenshot above was taken at somewhere between 0 and 10 km/h in Berlin. So, uh. I do not feel like I'm unfairly bashing anybody.
flumen_calculi
vampirdaddy@vampirdaddy @delta @rixx It's specifically designed that way that the "Ruhebereich" has bad coverage so there won't be any phone calls.
In the days of wifi calls this is a dated concept.
Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈)@rixx Try working from trains in the Atlantic coast in the northwest of Spain ("Atlantic axis") using mobile networks: it's mission impossible because the train runs on a trench or inside tunnels. No internet during ~1:30h, only despair. 
cyberia
Aleš Časar@rixx Back in the day when 2 Mb/s serial links between routers were still a thing, I could ping the router in the path to the world still in my city with RTT around 2 minutes. You could leave it on for a day and not a single packet was dropped, but RTT of each and every one of them was around 2 minutes.
Pinging anything beyond that router returned usual results.