Online en route. Now available on a range of new routes.
Swisscom and SBB offer you a total of 75 1st class coaches with Business Zones featuring mobile broadband internet access so that you can also work online on the train. In addition to the Zurich-Berne route, on which this service is already available, you can now benefit from an internet connection between Geneva and Lausanne and between Berne and Thun.
So why not use your journey on SBB to surf the internet, send e-mails or access your company's intranet, while enjoying all the benefits of working online on the move? Your seat on an SBB train turns into a mobile workspace, and you can work just as efficiently as you would in the office.
You can benefit from the "Online en route" service on the following routes:
Trains with mobile broadband access run on the following lines:
- Basel SBB – Zürich HB – Chur
- Genève Aéroport – Bern – Zürich HB – St. Gallen
- Basel SBB – Bern – Interlaken Ost / Brig
- Luzern – Zürich Flughafen
- Genève Aéroport – Lausanne – Bern – Zofingen – Luzern
- Romanshorn – Zürich HB – Bern –Interlaken Ost / Brig
- Bern – Biel/Bienne
Business Zones in 1st class coaches can be identified from the outside by the business pictogram, while on the inside a hotspot pictogram shows customers where they can access the "Online en route" service. Business Zones with access to mobile broadband can be found in the first coach behind the locomotive.
Requirements for use:
- a WLAN-enabled laptop
Payment options:
- via your Swisscom mobile phone invoice
via your telephone bill if you are a DSL customer with Swisscom
via your credit card
via a value card (smart card, available in Swisscom shops and elsewhere)
You can find current charging information on Swisscom's Public Wireless LAN homepage (www.pwlan.ch).
It works like this.
Normally, you simply open your browser, which automatically looks for the Public Wireless LAN homepage. If this fails to appear, type www.pwlan.ch.
If the connection still fails, check the following settings on your laptop. Depending on your computer and operating system, you may need to select the mobile network first.
| Wireless-LAN configuration: | |||
| SSID | MOBILE | ||
| WEP | deactivate encryption | ||
| Modus | infrastructure | ||
| Network settings: | |||
| IP address | get automatically | ||
| DNS address | get automatically | ||
| Browser settings: | |||
| Proxy configuration | deactivate | ||
Support.
Please note that SBB train crews cannot provide technical support. For information about the service, please call the freephone Swisscom Hotline on 0800 55 64 64.
