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April 14th, 2011 
AirplanePorn PIC (Porn In Command!) So here I am at 30,000 feet. Since I’ve got nothing else to do I figured I’d give you a review of the gogo in-flight internet on my American Airlines S80 (ummm you mean MD-80).
I bought the $9.95 plan which gets you ‘net for a single flight. For my 2.5 hour flight from Dallas to Baltimore, less than $5 bucks an hour is a pretty good deal in my book. If you travel more often, there is a monthly plan too that runs about $35 bucks. To me if you fly more than once per month, that’s a steal. Assuming you fly on enough flights that have the WiFi. Not all flights (mostly the smaller commuters) don’t have WiFi yet.
So here I am. Chattin’ with my wife. Twittering. Emailing. face booking. So far it’s all working pretty good on my iPad2.
How fast is it? Well, it seems pretty fast just emailing, twittering and texting the web on the iPad2. speedtest.net says between 0.4 and 20 Mbps. It’s not 20 Mbps fast, though. I saw speeds between 0.4 and 0.7 Mbps after 8 speed tests. Surfing the web confirms these speeds.
I did have one glitch where the ‘net stopped a’nettin. I went into Settings and clicked on the goinflight connection and renewed the lease. That seemed to kick it in the pants and it started working again.
Internet at 30,000 feet is really cool. Two thumbs up!
One catch. They clearly state no video or phone calls to “respect your neighbors” and of course you are expected to keep your web-surfing family friendly.
This is the best thing that happened to flying since wings (ok well maybe GPS)!
Just Fix The Seats Upright Please
To the jerk that reclined the seat 2 inches in front of my face, thank you. Your a-hole status is once again cemented firmly in place.
What purpose can reclining your seat so little serve? Surely you are not that much more comfortable that it’s worth making your rearward seat mate miserable? Oh right, your the bastard that doesn’t care.
Well I Think the airlines should bolt em upright.
I mean flying commercial in the United States is miserable enough. Once you get through the TSA patdown, find your gate, climb on board, find a spot for your bag, and finally settle into your cramped seat – BOOM, your rewarded with some selfish bastard sticking his seat in your face.
Oh and I love it when you get your knees jammed too. You know when they can’t put their seat back cause you got no place for your knees? Then of course then they rock back and forth because the idiot in front of you thinks the seat is jammed. They don’t realize it’s because your legs are stuck and have nowhere to go.
We could all save some hassle too. The flight attendants wouldn’t have to politely ask people 500 times “please put your seat upright for takeoff”. I bet they have dreams of strangling the idiots that think they can pull a fast on and have that reclined seat for takeoff/landing.
So please Mr. Airline CEO, bolt the damn seats upright.