{"id":7198,"date":"2025-10-13T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:01:08","slug":"romania-has-7th-fastest-wi-fi-connection-onboard-trains-in-ranking-of-asian-european-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7198","title":{"rendered":"Romania has 7th fastest Wi-Fi connection onboard trains in ranking of Asian, European countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is 7th in a ranking of the fastest Wi-Fi connections available onboard trains in 18 countries in Europe and Asia, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ookla.com\/articles\/train-wifi-2025\">analysis by internet speed testing service Ookla<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With a median download speed of 12.46 Mbps, Romania offers Wi-Fi more than twice as fast as Italy (4.78 Mbps) and Poland (4.72 Mbps), and 12 times faster compared to trains in the United Kingdom (1.09 Mbps).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the country in last place, Norway, the Wi-Fi available on trains in Romania is more than 30 times faster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profit.ro\/povesti-cu-profit\/it-c\/romania-a-depasit-multe-tari-ofera-printre-cele-mai-rapide-conexiuni-wi-fi-in-trenuri-grafice-22194281\">Profit.ro<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest Wi-Fi, however, is offered by Sweden, which leads the ranking by far, with a median download speed of 64.58 Mbps, followed by Switzerland (29.79 Mbps), Ireland (26.33 Mbps), and the Czech Republic (23.36 Mbps).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swedish trains also have the fastest Wi-Fi for uploading pages and files, with a median upload speed of 54.95 Mbps, more than 14 times faster compared to those in Romania (3.83 Mbps).<\/p>\n<p>Ookla notes that the speed and stability of Wi-Fi connections on trains in Europe and Asia vary significantly depending on network infrastructure, bandwidth, and Wi-Fi standards used, and that countries which treat mobile connections onboard trains as railway infrastructure and invest in them offer considerably better experiences for passengers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s Wi-Fi connection performance has improved drastically since last year, after two years of stagnating at 2 Mbps for download and around 0.7\u20131.9 Mbps for upload.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Offering strong connections on trains is a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRail operators view onboard connectivity as a lever for revenue, loyalty, and operations, while policymakers increasingly frame it as part of the digital backbone of national transport systems. The engineering reality is harsher: a train carriage is a metal Faraday cage moving through tunnels, cuttings, and rural not-spots, where cellular handovers are frequent and fragile,\u201d the analysis notes.<\/p>\n<p>However, faster connections are underway in most countries, as new technologies allow for faster connections even while moving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/cunaplus_info\">Cunaplus<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is 7th in a ranking of the fastest Wi-Fi connections available onboard trains in 18 countries in Europe and Asia, according to an analysis by internet speed testing service Ookla.\u00a0 With a median download speed of 12.46 Mbps, Romania offers Wi-Fi more than twice as fast as Italy (4.78 Mbps) and Poland (4.72 Mbps), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}