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64kbps @ 40,000 ft.

Posted by Hemos on from the lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds dept.

jumpstop writes "The NYT Technology section reports that 64kbps is now available on business jets. Sure, you can read your email and surf the web, but can you blast away at Wolfenstein?"

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  1. Each or between us? by samael · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the whole plane have a 64k connection?

    Or are we all going to have to share it between us?

    And what happens when the 15 year old in row 27 loads up Gnutella and uses _all_ the bandwidth?

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    1. Re:Each or between us? by benwb · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sadly enough the dot com days are over, so there are probably not all that many 15 year olds tooling around in business jets anymore.

  2. Re:Mile High Club by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, now you can join the club all by yourself. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are at our cruising altitude of 35,000 feet and the captain has just turned the pr0n filter off."

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  3. Already approaching from the wrong direction by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Communications experts say they could charge by the minute or the bit.

    Why not the flight? Or the day. I'd pay $15 to have a solid net connection on a 5 hour flight.

    I'm looking at this from a passenger point of view, but I think we're eventually going to see (and need) net connectivity in the air.

    And it should be cheaper then they think. Why go for a wired network in the plane at all? Pulling cables through a pre-existing airplane has to be expensive. A decent WAP which can handle 64 users at the same time and cover the entire cabin gives you a lan at ~$5-700 installed. Couple that with pre-existing antenneas, get a decent switch, and violla, you have internect connectivity in an average craft for a few thousand bucks.

    Wi-fi is already becomming the standard at airports (even though current coverage stinks). Why not partner with one of the many wi-fi providers popping up? I don't subscribe to any of them, but if I found out that my subscription to boingo would keep me connected at the airport, in the plane, and the hotel when I landed, I'd sign up in a second.

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  4. Arrested? by tarsi210 · · Score: 5, Funny

    can you blast away at Wolfenstein?

    And if you did, would you get arrested or attacked by the passengers for wielding a weapon?

    Maybe arming pilots with a plasma rifle would be a good thing. Or maybe they just need Jabber:

    SkieHighPil0t: Help! We're being hijacked!
    Sl33pyGrndCtrl: Thanks, SkieHighPil0t, but I'm away from my computer right now. Leave a message! :)

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