23.11.2008 01:35 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

On Virgin America's inaugural GoGo WiFi flight: this post published from 35,000 feet

So I took a little a break from working on gdgt to get on Virgin America's inaugural Aircell GoGo WiFi party flight, posting this at altitude. If you haven't already caught one of the early Aircell flights on Delta, American, or Air Canada, their now-active GoGo service provides in-flight internet. So far, as far as party planes go, this one hasn't been to raucus -- probably because everyone's been geeking out on their laptops. Quick facts: Shared 3.6Mbps downstream (to the ground), and 1.8Mbps upstream (to the plane -- i.e. everyone on the plane is sharing 3.6Mbps of bandwidth for loading pages, downloading files, etc.). So far we've been getting about 1Mbps down, and 200Kbps up -- pretty good considering that this is about as pinned as the system is going to get. Th

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