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throwaway22032

Just use mobile data? That's what the trains are using anyway.

In my experience, the mobile connection is very flaky on the trains in Germany.

I would think the train can have a much more powerful antenna to talk to mobile towers and then relay that to the passangers. So that WIFI is better than mobile data.

In my experience network coverage in Germany is way below must other European countries I have visited. Some with a much lower inhabitant desisty like Finland.

Apparently data reception in German trains is very low.

This report[0] says it's 62-78% nationwide. Of the neighbouring alps countries Austria is 78-88% and Switzerland is 93-96%.

[0]: https://www.umlaut.com/uploads/documents/Reports-Certificate...

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