NextGen Acela Speed Test: ‘Bad Train Wi-Fi’ Is No Longer an Excuse to Skip Work

The fastest train in the United States has never had the country’s fastest Wi-Fi or anything close to it, but the free 5G-based connectivity onboard Amtrak’s NextGen Acela trains now traveling the Northeast Corridor still represents a substantial advance over Amtrak’s previous efforts, much less what the passenger railroad debuted in 2010. 

On a ride from Washington to New York on NextGen Acela’s second day of revenue service in late August, the remarkable thing about the…