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Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Marton writes "Lufthansa started rolling out their Flynet service in 2004. It is now available on several long-haul flights such as 411D - the one I'm sitting on right now. It is not cheap ($30 for the duration of a flight) nor is it very fast (satellite-based technology can't deliver the snappy response you are used to on the ground) but it is really, really nice. It's great to be able to check my email, catch up with some work, or just surf the web - airplane time used to be about napping, paperbacks or crappy movies. Now if only they'd let me have a cigarette I could actually be productive too. " Marton also gave us a traceroute which is attached... I'm going to Tokyo in May and crying that Northwest won't have this.

Here's a traceroute from my laptop which is currently on an A-340 10,000 meters up in the air, doing about 800 kilometers per hour, somewhere over the Atlantic bound for Munich.


C:\Documents and Settings\Marton>tracert www.slashdot.org

Tracing route to www.slashdot.org [66.35.250.151]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms 172.16.64.1
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms cbb-cds-psn.by.boeing [172.16.0.18]
3 3 ms 4 ms 2 ms sbs.by.boeing [172.31.0.1]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 568 ms 626 ms 576 ms 10.8.20.38
6 703 ms 567 ms 583 ms ltn02r03-vlan25.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.20.2]
7 580 ms 705 ms 582 ms ltn02r21-fa2-9.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.16.25]
8 627 ms 582 ms 632 ms 10.8.16.33
9 579 ms 581 ms 581 ms ltn02r01-fa3-3.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.16.130]
10 619 ms 582 ms 582 ms ltn02r02-fa3-3.connexionbyboeing.net [10.8.16.131]
11 581 ms 582 ms 665 ms 12.125.155.5
12 655 ms 912 ms 1072 ms gbr1-a31s1.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.127.4.134]
13 1144 ms 1612 ms 1939 ms gbr1-p60.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.1.29]
14 1500 ms 712 ms 580 ms tbr2-p013301.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.12.133]
15 613 ms 579 ms 582 ms 12.122.80.57
16 589 ms 608 ms 790 ms dcr1-so-3-0-0.sanfranciscosfo.savvis.net [192.205.32.110]
17 588 ms 605 ms 582 ms dcr2-loopback.SanFranciscosfo.savvis.net [206.24.210.100]
18 609 ms 1774 ms 1079 ms bhr1-pos-0-0.SantaClarasc8.savvis.net [208.172.156.198]
19 610 ms 968 ms 1108 ms csr1-ve243.SantaClarasc8.savvis.net [66.35.194.50]
20 1109 ms 886 ms 998 ms 66.35.212.174
21 630 ms 860 ms 994 ms star.slashdot.org [66.35.250.151]

Trace complete.

12 of 366 comments (clear)

  1. If you need slashdot on a plane... by PyWiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...you might be addicted.

    --
    -py
  2. Mile High Club? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For all the slashdot geeks flying on Lufthansa, this also gives you the opportunity to join the mile high club - solo!

  3. Skynet anyone? by Billy_D_Goat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would this be any relation to Skynet perhaps? Flynet: Skynet's little sister.

  4. 0wned! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny


    Well, you should have updated you XP to SP2 before putting you IP address on /. dude!

    Now let us see if we can crank up the volume and start playing back those interesting "documentaries" you've got in:

    c:\Program Files\Accounting\Private\Pervysnsluts_2004_njr_rel .avi

  5. Heh by tmasky · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder who's insecure laptop is going to join the Mile High club first.

  6. Re:Boeing technology by Abstract_Me · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article says its slow and expensive but the connexionbyboeing website advertises it being fast and cheap! which one do i beleive?!

  7. Re:Boeing technology by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find it quite amusing that Connexion by Boeing is being used on an Airbus.

  8. This could make air travel pay off! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Pay $30 for email in airplane
    2. Login and check email
    3. Receive Nigerian offer to give you $15,000
    4. Profit!

    --
    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  9. Slashdot on a Plane by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flight Attendant: "Sorry, sir. After you posted that message about the iPod on Slashdot, Cowboy Neal notified us to mod you down. You can't sit in first class anymore. Please find a seat in coach. Oh, and if you do it again? You will have to sit on the wing with the other gremlins. Gremlins? That is what we call trolls here. Look outside and you will see a few right now GNAA'ing on the wings."

    --
    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  10. Tell me about it! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny
    "And while we are at it, LEARN TO LINE WRAP. Trust the browser to do it for you, man"

    Tell me about it
    There is this one AC
    Who types every troll
    like this. It makes them
    all look like Haiku.

    --
    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  11. Re:Will $30 more also get you smoking rights? by JonyEpsilon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm confused. Are you talking about smoking or slashdot ?

  12. Profit! by Gudlyf · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Pay the $30 fee for your in-flight connection.
    2. Connect your own pocket wireless AP to your laptop.
    3. Offer the rest of the plane access to your AP for $10.
    4. Profit! (?)
    --
    Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.