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?

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. :)

[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.

[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.)

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