Jan 192009
I’m currently on American Airline flight #15 en route from New York City (JFK) to San Francisco. The plane is wired with wifi from Gogo inflight internet. It’s a good connection. Speedtest.net reported a ping latency of 144 ms, download speeds of almost 2 Mbps and upload speeds of over 300 kbps. Both SSH and VPN worked without a problem, and there was no issue with typical web usage or instant messaging. I fired up Skype, and while I was able to connect to the Skype services, voice service was not usable. Video from YouTube was great, but I was unable to find any sites where live streaming video worked well. (However, that might be an issue with my computer in general.)
samg@flywithme:~$ ping samgreenfield.com
PING samgreenfield.com (208.113.245.235) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=644 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=389 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=270 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=4 ttl=44 time=170 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=5 ttl=44 time=264 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=6 ttl=44 time=560 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=7 ttl=44 time=564 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=8 ttl=44 time=323 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=9 ttl=44 time=533 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=10 ttl=44 time=508 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=11 ttl=44 time=950 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=12 ttl=44 time=765 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=13 ttl=44 time=934 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=14 ttl=44 time=704 ms
64 bytes from apache2-grog.nexus.dreamhost.com (208.113.245.235): icmp_seq=15 ttl=44 time=883 ms
--- samgreenfield.com ping statistics ---
16 packets transmitted, 15 received, 6% packet loss, time 15101ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 170.832/564.688/950.614/241.978 ms