(13 Feb 2019, 7:30 pm)S813 FVK 5390 has now gained the promotional livery for 'Poetry in Motion'

Go North East 5390 / NL63 YAY by kieron mathews, on Flickr

There is a slight typo on it though. It is buspoems.com not .co.uk.

(14 Feb 2019, 1:03 am)Rapidsnap How long is 9079 expected to be around for?

(14 Feb 2019, 7:42 pm)Michael Surprised the new coaches don't have WIFI.

(14 Feb 2019, 7:45 pm)Dan National Express spec.

They offer Wi-Fi of sorts but it's not as good as Go North East's own buses.

Their main offering is VUER:
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/vuer

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(14 Feb 2019, 7:45 pm)Dan National Express spec.

They offer Wi-Fi of sorts but it's not as good as Go North East's own buses.

Their main offering is VUER:
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/vuer

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(14 Feb 2019, 8:25 pm)GNE6312 Do GNE have Sunday's metro replacements

(14 Feb 2019, 7:51 pm)streetdeckfan To be honest, I've never found Go North East's WiFi to be that good, and that assumes it even works.
Especially on the longer services 100mb a day just doesn't cut it, I only use it as a backup for when my mobile data isn't working (like today, in fact I'm typing this on WiFi)
I get that 100mb per passenger per day quickly adds up, but I feel like it's only added to the bus just to say they have it

To be fair though, I think Arriva's daily limit is 70mb so it could be worse

(14 Feb 2019, 8:32 pm)citaro5284 GNE are using around 8 Terabytes a month on passenger wifi, so it is working that is for sure.

100mb a day limit, if you travel for 5 days a week, that is around 2GB worth of data that someone is getting on top of their plan with the mobile provider.

(14 Feb 2019, 7:51 pm)streetdeckfan To be honest, I've never found Go North East's WiFi to be that good, and that assumes it even works.
Especially on the longer services 100mb a day just doesn't cut it, I only use it as a backup for when my mobile data isn't working (like today, in fact I'm typing this on WiFi)
I get that 100mb per passenger per day quickly adds up, but I feel like it's only added to the bus just to say they have it

To be fair though, I think Arriva's daily limit is 70mb so it could be worse

(14 Feb 2019, 9:11 pm)Andreos1 I gave up on it years ago after the shambles there was when it launched.
It worked; it didn't work; buses advertised it - but wouldn't connect; messages to say the limit was reached within seconds of logging on to fb... 
Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of those who use it are kids who have ran out of data and are Snapchatting their mates sat just a few foot on the other side of the bus.

(14 Feb 2019, 9:11 pm)Andreos1 I gave up on it years ago after the shambles there was when it launched.
It worked; it didn't work; buses advertised it - but wouldn't connect; messages to say the limit was reached within seconds of logging on to fb... 
Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of those who use it are kids who have ran out of data and are Snapchatting their mates sat just a few foot on the other side of the bus.

(14 Feb 2019, 9:17 pm)Malarkey Also when connected it disconnects you when another vehicle with a wifi connection passes by.

(14 Feb 2019, 8:39 pm)Jamie M Getting a bit astray here, but the issue is normally when phones connect to wifi, background data processes normally drastically increase for updates and whatever else our devices do. So there's less time to actually use the your phone before reaching the cap, than if the device is being rather more conservative on mobile data.

I've used all the data within a matter of minutes by just browsing facebook. All the things start auto playing as well, which doesn't help. It would be nice if devices could recognise transport wifi as a separate entity and act a lot more conservatively. Those big bad evil multi million corporations want us to be using mobile data though, so that'll never happen!

(14 Feb 2019, 9:19 pm)Jamie M I'm more confused by the scholar's who like to all be streaming memes off youtube for 45 minutes every morning I get given a wifi enabled bus. Bus wifi box must take a hammering on those'ns. When I was a scholars... last year.... I was too dead in the mornings to bother with that stuff.