PASSENGERS using a Southampton bus route can now check their e-mails, download music to their iPod or access the Internet while on the move.

One of the double-decker buses used regularly on the uni-link's U1 route has been fitted with Wi-Fi equipment for a 20-day trial.

Alec Gore, transport manager at the University of Southampton, said: "If all goes well - and so far everything is working better than expected - we will consider fitting the rest of the buses used on the route with similar equipment, sometime in late summer."