2:18 p.m. Down to one bar, now back to two bars. Internet burped.

2:19 p.m. Turned off everything, switched to see if Spotify could stream (mainly because of the annoying conversation going on behind me). A couple of glitches listening to music, but not horrible.

2:32 p.m. Trying Netflix quickly before the train arrives. Sadly, Netflix needs Silverlight plugin to view over Firefox browser, spend rest of the trip downloading plugin (getting about 250KBps, but dropping at times to about 70KBps.)

2:41 p.m. Yes! It works! Sort of -- got 10 seconds of video before it stalled.

3:22 p.m. Checked into the hotel, in the room, checking Internet speeds. Four bars on the 21st floor in midtown Manhattan. Wow. 15.6Mbps download, 5.03Mbps. There's no place like New York. Time to get some real work done.