Digital Trends – Announced earlier today, Amtrak is upgrading twelve Northeastern routes with free Wi-Fi access via the AmtrakConnect service. Passengers with devices like a laptop, tablet or smartphone will be able to browse the Internet while riding on the train. However, limited bandwidth restricts activity to basic Web browsing. Itâs unlikely that passengers will be able to use a streaming video application like Netflix to watch a movie during the trip. Other restricted activity includes listening to streaming music on a service like Spotify and large file downloads. Amtrak limits the file size on downloads to 10MB, thus passengers looking to download a recent movie off iTunes will be out of luck.