Email: You'll be able to use your current email account, you won't need a special tenzing account. There's some software that basically "dials up" to the onboard server; your laptop thinks it's connected to your ISP. It's pretty transparent, except you gotta use our SpecialNiftySoftware to start the whole process. Then the server just acts as a proxy between you and your ISPs actual mail servers. Mail gets collected, and every x minutes (set by the airline) all the mail is bundled, sent to the ground, and new mail for you gets sent up to the plane. So there is a delay.
Web: As noted, there's cached web content. However, it's not all just static crap. Partnerships with various places and search engines will allow searches, online orders, etc, in flight. Selected stuff will be updated during the flight, like stock quotes and maybe weather and whatever else our marketing dorks decide is necessary, but most updates will happen between flight legs.
Actual connectivity: None, yet. Some companies are working on actual broadband access during flights, but it's still experimental. We hope to get partnerships with these folx later.:)
Electronic device usage: Well, standard airline rules apply. The connection is thru the plane's phone lines to the seats, so there's no special new concerns. We've asked about using wireless, but the gov doesn't like that idea at the moment.
Quake games: Probably possible, but remember that, at least at first, you're limited to phone dialup speeds (since you connect thru the modem). Whether the games are doable or not depends on how the engineers setup the onboard boxes.
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Email: You'll be able to use your current email account, you won't need a special tenzing account. There's some software that basically "dials up" to the onboard server; your laptop thinks it's connected to your ISP. It's pretty transparent, except you gotta use our SpecialNiftySoftware to start the whole process. Then the server just acts as a proxy between you and your ISPs actual mail servers. Mail gets collected, and every x minutes (set by the airline) all the mail is bundled, sent to the ground, and new mail for you gets sent up to the plane. So there is a delay. Web: As noted, there's cached web content. However, it's not all just static crap. Partnerships with various places and search engines will allow searches, online orders, etc, in flight. Selected stuff will be updated during the flight, like stock quotes and maybe weather and whatever else our marketing dorks decide is necessary, but most updates will happen between flight legs. Actual connectivity: None, yet. Some companies are working on actual broadband access during flights, but it's still experimental. We hope to get partnerships with these folx later. :)
Electronic device usage: Well, standard airline rules apply. The connection is thru the plane's phone lines to the seats, so there's no special new concerns. We've asked about using wireless, but the gov doesn't like that idea at the moment.
Quake games: Probably possible, but remember that, at least at first, you're limited to phone dialup speeds (since you connect thru the modem). Whether the games are doable or not depends on how the engineers setup the onboard boxes.
I have been testing Real tournament on the tenzing system and it works great.
We will be showing this to airlines next week.
"How to kill 300 people on your next flight"
Unreal Tournament!