OMG, How Freaking Cool Is This?!

[bjarvis]

My flight from Dulles to San Francisco has wifi!

I'm 38,131 feet above sea level somewhere over Denver and I can check my email, update LJ and Facebook and update DC Diamond Circulate files, all from seat 19A!

According to Speakeasy.net's quick and dirty speed test, I'm getting 1922 kbps download speed and 296 kbps upload. I so wish I had traceroute on this laptop... I'd love to probe the network to see how this is set up. :-)

Now if only my Crackberry could get a signal... My Crackberry is now getting a signal and is going insane downloading hundreds of emails and Facebook updates. I think it's going to burst into flames from the sudden traffic.

Comments

[clickboo.livejournal.com]

What airline?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Virgin Atlantic. I'm not sure if all their planes are so equipped but this one definitely is. Whee!

Gawd, I can be such a nerd sometimes.

Yihá!

[failteromhat.livejournal.com]

Glad you'r so happy! :D

Grtz, Fáilte

[trulygrateful.livejournal.com]

I suppose this makes you a member of the internet Mile-High club?

Enjoy your time out west. :)

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

Since our house sits just above 5280 feet above sea level, we are permanently in the mile high club!

I hope this doesn't mean the advent of cell phone chatter on planes is upon us. I can't bear the thought of being trapped next to someone yelling into their cell phone for a couple of hours. I would have to kill them. Sorry, but it would be necessary.

[trulygrateful.livejournal.com]

There's talk about implementing cell service extender-towers or something along those lines in the subway here; it's already annoying listening to the Xers and Yers blare their ringtones and music from their phones.

I may just have to resort to drastic action if such a thing as you propose would ever happen.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

We're already there here in DC. Even my Sprint phone gets service in the Metro tunnels. It's aggravating, especially when the kids get on after school.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Agreed: murdering someone for yacking on their cell phone while trapped on a cross-continental flight is perfectly justified. No jury would convict.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

My company makes mobile wireless routers and I remember the hooplah when the airlines were presented with the capability. [ sound of crickets ] I'm glad someone is enjoying it.

Oh, and there's a bug in the technology: if you have more than three apps open and you go to cnn.com (or is it google?), it takes out the power to two jet engines. So don't do that.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm using my Crackberry to make us do loop-de-loops. :-)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

note to self: never fly with Miss Jarvis....

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

I'll take a copy of that memo!

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Atta boy.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

You're a Virgin virgin no longer.

After April, Randy and I wont be Virgin virgins, either. We're flying Virgin to Dulles for DCDC. (Note: Detailed instructions on how to get from Dulles to the Marriott would be most welcome at this point.)

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

This is actually my second time on Virgin America: We flew VA into Los Angeles for the CALLERLAB convention last March.

That plane, however, did not have wifi. :-(

Air, rail & ground transportation is the theme of the next DCDC newsletter, due at the end of February. Depending on the date & time of your arrival, we might even be able to collect you at IAD.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Remember: use your knees, not your back.

Oh wait. You said "collect", not "pick up". Never mind. :)

[allanh.livejournal.com]

[And we wouldn't say no to such a generous offer, either.]

[bendoutdoors.livejournal.com]

Shall I send you our flight arrival information as well? :-)

watch your own flight

[(Anonymous)]

Cool! On the way back, see if you can find your own flight location on a flight tracker, , then call up the location in Google Earth to fly along with your plane. How I've longed for a real-time flight map so I could identify the things on the ground. Jeff