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In-Flight Wi-Fi Makes its Debut
mindless4210 writes "German airline Lufthansa will become the first carrier to provide Boeing's Connexion service to its passengers. The service will be unveiled on May 17 on non-stop flights from Munich to Los Angeles, with plans to outfit their entire fleet over the next year. Passengers will be able to purchase access using their credit cards and Wi-Fi enabled laptops. The cost is set at $30 for the entire flight or $10 for 30 minutes."
mid-air LAN party!!
Does this mean that us nerds can now join the "mile high club"?
Can't wait till someone acidentally starts controlling the plane with MS Flight simulator
"Pull up!, Pull up!"
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wohee, now i don't need to wait for the hotspots in arrivals ...
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What are the odds that VoIP ports are either blocked or the latency makes it unusable? The airline industry has put quite a bit of effort into explaining why Airphone is The Only Right Way to talk from a plane.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we must ask that you not use your laptop as a phone over the internet as it... may cause cancer."
Is this going to be a totally free service, or will certain sites be "blocked off"? I expect to see a marked increase in the number of passengers arrested for indecent exposure. Or even better, over the loudspeaker: "Passenger in seat 17E: Keep it in your pants. Thank you."
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I really, really, really hope that at no point while flying will my plane be close enough to another plain to do any communication via WiFi.
You dont need the internet to check put porn on a website. Why do you think people have 6 120-gig hard drives on their PC? Not that I am saying I have 6 120-gig hard drives on my computer full of Jenna Jameson DIVX, organized by year or anything.
...before we start hearing horror stories about sitting next to sketchy guys who are checking out pr0n on the plane?
May 17th.
"Any use for plane to plane communications? quickly sending your vital stats, etc. or just as a log of who you have passed. "
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I get around this restriction by bringing aboard my trusty old victrola.
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
it's pretty dangerous
I could see that first guy clicking "share this connection" with his other wireless card.
:)
Oh yeah, that first guy would be me
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Bah...
I'm getting decent speeds by taking three airphones (three seat wide section) and using a uunet dialup account to bind all three together using ppp multilink. I just charge the airtime back to my company!
I tried to use more phones from the passengers seats infront and behind me....but the cords are too short! DAMN!!
Its much easier to explain to the general populus that NO electronics can be used during take off, as opposed to explaining a whole list of items that can't be used.
Except those people who ask how to turn off their digital watch.
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Glad to see the outrageous hazard cellphones and other RF transmissions pose to airplane avionics is handily mitigated by the application of cash.
This is the best Democracy money can buy?!?!?
I'm just waiting for Qantas (crash free since...well...forever) gets this on their 747-438 Longreach crafts. They're already putting in AC and PC power outlets for business class and progressively moving them backwards to accomodate your myriad of consumer electronics. Since my wife is Australian, when we fly back and forth it'd be great to have Wi-Fi to pass the time. The first 4 hours of the flight are interesting, but somewhere around hour 12 of the 14.5 to 15 hour flight to Sydney, you really think about opening a window for entertainment value.
Cross country I can see just wanting to have some booze and relax, but after that, it'd be nice to do something constructive.
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When was that last time you could get more then five hundred feet from your access point.
/wait/ to bring that on the plane! "Haha, you wussies, I've got a clear signal from the plane all the way back here at the security checkpoint! Yeah, I rock, you all.. hey, wait a minute. No no, let me go! GAH! MY LAPTOP! NO NO DON'T PUT THE LATEX GLOVES ON AGAIN!! HEEELLPPP!!!"
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