Internet Access 10 Kilometers High Up In The Air

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.

Comments

Ob Simpsons...

[HungSoLow]

"The government don't control the skies... you could live in a balloon!!"

Re:Ob Simpsons...

[Finuvir]

"That's it!"

"Hear that Mom? She's as dumb as me!"

Cigs

[Quiet_Desperation]

You can smoke all the evil death cylinders you like... out on the wing.

And I have yet to understand this terrible drive to be productive during flights. I had to fly six times last year for work, and I made them put me on Jet Blue so I could zone out to DirecTV. It's bad enough I have to travel 1000s of miles for my employers, so I'm going to take some relaxation time in between those vast annoyance factories called airports. Yeah, I'm talking about YOU, Logan Airport, and your goddamned tunnel closure that dumped me into downtown Boston, recently voted the least navigable city on the continent, and no detour signs and airport signs that have no connection to reality.

And my damn boss wouldn't pay me time and a half for taking one flight on 9/11, although the nearly empty plane gave me a whole row seats to myself. I had one monitor set to the plane position on a map, another to a ballgame and the third to something on the History Channel. And then I lay back with my Bose noise cancelling headphones. Now that's the way to fly!

!!! NSFW !!! -nt

[AndreyF]

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Re:VoIP

[Jononon]

Please, God (or Bill, or whoever), let this never come to pass. "I'm on the 'plane" "I said 'I'M ON THE PLANE'"