Comments on: First Look: Virgin America’s Inflight Broadband http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/11/25/first-look-virgin-americas-inflight-broadband/ A Travel/Technology weblog Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert F. http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/11/25/first-look-virgin-americas-inflight-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-6429 Robert F. Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:08:14 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/?p=1556#comment-6429 Virgin is a great carrier, I like the "vibe" they've developed. Excellent that you tried SSH, I wouldn't have thought to test that. Hopefully VoIP was permitted for the test only and will be banned by policy for "real" flights. If not, I would explicitly avoid all Virgin wifi enabled flights. Virgin is a great carrier, I like the “vibe” they’ve developed. Excellent that you tried SSH, I wouldn’t have thought to test that. Hopefully VoIP was permitted for the test only and will be banned by policy for “real” flights. If not, I would explicitly avoid all Virgin wifi enabled flights.

]]> By: Oliver http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/2008/11/25/first-look-virgin-americas-inflight-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-6428 Oliver Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:20:06 +0000 http://boardingarea.com/blogs/traveltechtalk/?p=1556#comment-6428 "down" and "up" in this case are sort of misleading, as the download is really loading "up to the plane" :) I read somewhere else that it's essentially a shared EVDO Rev A (?) connection. Hopefully people are going to be getting over the initial curiosity and use it for what it's best suited -- surfing, chat and email. Why suck up a large percentage of the available bandwidth to see a stuttering streaming video when you have free access to VX's onbard TV system... “down” and “up” in this case are sort of misleading, as the download is really loading “up to the plane” :)

I read somewhere else that it’s essentially a shared EVDO Rev A (?) connection. Hopefully people are going to be getting over the initial curiosity and use it for what it’s best suited — surfing, chat and email. Why suck up a large percentage of the available bandwidth to see a stuttering streaming video when you have free access to VX’s onbard TV system…

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