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Blogging From the Sky With Gogo
By Dave Peterson | November 13, 2009
Coming back from a week in Colorado, I had a nice surprise. A free trial of Gogo Inflight Internet (a service of Aircell), on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Seattle. In fact I’m blogging from 34,000 feet right now. The speed is certainly acceptable, though not something you’d want to do much more than casual web browsing on. Speedtest.net clocked it at .35 mbps down and .22 mbps up. The service is billed to work with most Wi-Fi enable devices (computers, phones, PDA’s, iPod Touch, etc.). Connection is quite simple: Fire up the device, join gogoinflight as your wireless network, and launch a browser session. You are then asked to create an account with Gogo, and choose a payment option. Pricing is $5.95 for a flight up to 1.5 hours, $9.95 for 1.5 to 3 hours, and $12.95 for a flight over 3 hours. There are also 24-hour passes for $12.95 or 30-day passes for $24.95. The service is currently being offered on select flights from AirTran, American, Delta, United, and Virgin America.
The biggest issue is likely to be, can you get that 17″ laptop open to work with while flying coach?
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