So who else heard about internet on airplanes and said, “Golly, I can’t wait to not afford that!” A person who calls hirself ‘Alexander,’—the bishonen anime hermaphrodite avatar isn’t giving me much to go on, although who are we to talk?—tried out the Boeing Connexion broadband service on a flight from Frankfurt and varified that it does actually work, then went on to talk about the battery life on their Axim X50. Awesome, glad to know it actually works and the Lufthansa stewards don’t just come by and ink a big LOADING on your newspaper or something, but maybe next time you could benchmark it and tell us how fast it was. Also, do that other idea, where you were going to test Skype—that would almost make the $30 fee worth it.
Alex speaking from Flight LH 432 [MobileRead]
Update: Jeff writes:
I have used the Lufthansa WiFi a few times, and I did benchmark it, although I don t have printed results. The benchmarks varied between 120-160k over a few flights not really broadband, but plenty to do normal surfing. Also, I tried to use my Skype and Vonage Voip. It didn t work too well, and I think the main reason is there was packet lag, and there was too much break up in the voice. It worked, but not well. It is kind of funny how annoying it must be to the rothers on the flight. I also was receiving Voip calls in the flights. But, I think I need to find a Voip software app that will allow variable bitrate fro voice at least Vonages doesn t have that.
