Onboard Internet- Fantastic!

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

I'm posting this from 32,037 feet above northern Canada, about two hours into a 13-hour flight to Narita from JFK. The system is called Gogoinflight and works very well. I've been surfing for about 30 minutes and no problem in connecting with email or the sites I usually visit. The speed is 72.2 Mbps, which is fine for ordinary surfing and email, but you can't stream video from Netflix. YouTube works OK. It ain't cheap, though. It costs US $19.95 for one hour and $39.95 for the entire flight.

 

It's a great way to make the time pass on a boring flight! I'm flying Delta in Economy Comfort this time. It's marginally better than cattle class, but it's light-years from Business Class.

 

Evil

Edited June 18, 2014 by Evil Penevil

[Harvey 249]

My condolences. My hatred of Delta knows no limits.

 

Surly stewardesses only a little larger than a Holstein.

[short 215]

My condolences. My hatred of Delta knows no limits.

 

Surly stewardesses only a little larger than a Holstein.

Harvy, I raise you. Delta Economy has the hardest damn fucking seats in existence. Evil, I envy your ability to tolerate pain for long duration.

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

My condolences. My hatred of Delta knows no limits.

 

Surly stewardesses only a little larger than a Holstein.

It's not like United was any great shakes, but it had a very generous system of upgrades for frequent flyers. Nine times out of 10, I paid for Economy but flew in biz thanks to an upgrade. But United stopped service to BKK at the end of March so I switched to Delta the only other U.S. carrier to serve BKK from NYC.

 

Harvy, I raise you. Delta Economy has the hardest damn fucking seats in existence. Evil, I envy your ability to tolerate pain for long duration.

Yup, my butt and lower back already ache and there's still five hours left until Narita. The Internet connection is a good distraction, though.

 

Evil

[cluster 14]

T'was only a matter of time........ lets hope the price for this service reduces over time.

[MM 6,562]

If " The speed is 72.2 Mbps, " that's plenty for YouTube.

I'll bet you mean Kbps.

 

Composed on a mobile phone.

 

 

[brotherbuzz 3,206]

If " The speed is 72.2 Mbps, " that's plenty for YouTube.

I'll bet you mean Kbps.

 

Composed on a mobile phone.

Was thinking the same. Maybe the flight height is a factor......

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

Only an hour left to Narita, but still above 36,000 feet. The Internet shuts off automatically at 10,000 feet.

 

Evil

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

On the NRT-BKK flight now, we land in 3.5 hours.

 

Here's what my laptop says about the speed:

 

 

You can stream YouTube on the Delta flight. You can also stream porn but you have to connect through a proxy. Gogoinflight doesn't allow a direct connection to porn sites like xhamster. I tried via a proxy and it streamed OK, but I only watched for a few seconds. I really didn't want anyone looking over my shoulder.

 

Evil

[js007 795]

Are the Delta seats what would otherwise be known as "Premium Economy"? If so, I wonder how those would compare to the Premium Economy seats on the old direct flight from the USA to BKK on the A340-500? I used to think those were a good deal.

As for Delta? They usually lose my bags for a day or two. Almost always.

[ttk 236]

Are the Delta seats what would otherwise be known as "Premium Economy"? If so, I wonder how those would compare to the Premium Economy seats on the old direct flight from the USA to BKK on the A340-500? I used to think those were a good deal.

As for Delta? They usually lose my bags for a day or two. Almost always.

 

1.5 million miles over 15 years on Delta , and 200-300 flights and they never lost or even delayed my bags. 50,000 miles on United and they managed it twice

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

Are the Delta seats what would otherwise be known as "Premium Economy"? If so, I wonder how those would compare to the Premium Economy seats on the old direct flight from the USA to BKK on the A340-500? I used to think those were a good deal.

As for Delta? They usually lose my bags for a day or two. Almost always.

Yes, in terms of pitch and seat width, the equivalent of Premium Economy on other airlines. But the seats on Delta are VERY hard and uncomfortable, not nearly as good as the Premium Economy seats were on the Thai non-stop to/from JFK. I wish, wish, WISH they still had that flight.

Thirty minutes until landing. Maybe Buddha is taking care of me, but in all my years of traveling, I've never had an airline misplace a bag. A few have been delayed a day or two, but that always had to do with making a connecting flight by minutes and the bags not keeping pace. But never a lost bag if the flight or flights went as they should, i.e., no leg of the flight involved a delayed arrival.

 

Thirty minutes until we land. Signing off.

 

Evil

[michi 9]

On the NRT-BKK flight now, we land in 3.5 hours.

 

Here's what my laptop says about the speed:

 

Speed.JPG

 

You can stream YouTube on the Delta flight. You can also stream porn but you have to connect through a proxy. Gogoinflight doesn't allow a direct connection to porn sites like xhamster. I tried via a proxy and it streamed OK, but I only watched for a few seconds. I really didn't want anyone looking over my shoulder.

 

Evil

 

72Mb is right,but is only the connection to the router.

 

The rest will be much slower...

[js007 795]

Hardly any lost bags? Unbelievable. Until a few years ago, I had never flown on a Delta flight where they DIDN'T lose my bags. Seriously. It's not much fun arriving somewhere at midnight with no suitcase. They always find it in a day or two, to be sure. Anyway, I've pretty much determined just to travel with a carry on from now on.

[short 215]

Thai A340-500 Premium economy was in a differnet class that the Delta "Comfort Econonmy"

 

The Thai PECON had a seat pitch of 42". The Delta pitch is 35".

 

A seat is removed from the PECON row, but not the Delta row.

 

 

Even Thai's regular economy had a pitch of 36"

[Butch 3,456]

Evil, give me your flight no and I'll track it via flightradar24.com. and try to post a screenshot here.

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

Evil, give me your flight no and I'll track it via flightradar24.com. and try to post a screenshot here.

 

The flight landed at 11.00 p.m. last night and was at the gate at 11.20 p,m., exactly on time. I was in Mr Dream's sedan by 11.45 p.m. and at my condo in Pattaya at 1.00 a.m. Very little traffic on the way. There didn't seem to be many people out and around on Third Road and Soi Bukhao.

 

I was mildly surprised there wasn't any problem with my checked suitcase. The plane pulled away from the gate at JFK on time, but there was a queue of 40 planes ahead of us and we weren't airborne for another 70 minutes. We landed at Narita an hour late and I got to the departure gate for the Bangkok leg just as it was boarding. I doubted my suitcase would make it, but it did. It was in fact among the first on the baggage carousel.

 

Evil

Edited June 21, 2014 by Evil Penevil

[short 215]

On the NRT-BKK flight now, we land in 3.5 hours.

 

Here's what my laptop says about the speed:

 

Speed.JPG

 

You can stream YouTube on the Delta flight. You can also stream porn but you have to connect through a proxy. Gogoinflight doesn't allow a direct connection to porn sites like xhamster. I tried via a proxy and it streamed OK, but I only watched for a few seconds. I really didn't want anyone looking over my shoulder.

 

Evil

72.2 Mbps is a Wifi 802.11.n speed. You only got that speed when you got a time slice. You shared that speed with the rest of the passengers to the hotspot on the airplane.

 

 

 

I wish I had asked you to go to a website like SPEEDTEST in which you can measure the actual speed from your computer to a server in a state of your choosing.

 

Which proxy did you use? Did it cost you?

[MM 6,562]

He gave the price in the OP, short.

 

Composed on a mobile phone.

 

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

72.2 Mbps is a Wifi 802.11.n speed. You only got that speed when you got a time slice. You shared that speed with the rest of the passengers to the hotspot on the airplane.

 

 

 

I wish I had asked you to go to a website like SPEEDTEST in which you can measure the actual speed from your computer to a server in a state of your choosing.

 

Which proxy did you use? Did it cost you?

 

The proxy I used was Tunnelbear (thanks to MM for the recommendation), which I already had.

 

Evil

[MM 6,562]

Actually, that's a VPN.

 

Composed on a mobile phone.

 

 

[biggles 509]

From a non techy, a question. how does the signal get from the router on the plane to the ground?

[jacko 8,815]

A bit of info here.

[Nightrider 340]

Just another money making scheme by the carriers , and a pretty shit one at that , i think its just a novelty for most people and for those who say that they need 24hr access to the internet ........get a life......!

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

I see access to the Internet as another form of in-flight entertainment. I don't see much difference between surfing the Net and watching a movie. It's just a way to make the time pass. If I have a "lie-flat" seat, I can sleep, but it's hard for me to fall asleep in a seat in Economy Class. The more ways I have of diverting myself during 20 to 24 hours in the air, the happier I am.

 

But for those who do a lot of business or job-related stuff via the Internet, I imagine it would be a big advantage to be wired during long inter-continental flights.

 

Evil