| why not?? Open up those narrow minds...
Recently I was on a Lufthansa flight using Boeing's Connexion doing wifi on a 747-400 over Europe and into the Atlantic...it worked great until about mid ocean when it stopped... too bad cause after all the movies one needs some stimulation for an 11hr flight...lol
- I called Boeing after the flight and they credited me for the entire flight's internet charges... I'm happy...and would use the service again
BTW, there were 6 routers onboard to handle the expected traffic (1 first class, 2 business class and 3 in coach)...
Recently I was on the Grand Princess for a trans-Atlantic voyange of 16 days from Galveston Texas to Rome Italy... I used both the ship's internet connected pcs and their wifi services... again after so many days at sea the internet was a stimulating diversion (one can get too relaxed floating along eating and drinking, etc. onboard).... some thoughts:
- for nearly 2 days the ship's internet service was down due to antenna problems and a software upgrade... what surprised me was how irate some older passengers became because they couldn't contact their families....go figure...
- with so many passengers using the internet they could have used 20 more pc's... as is they had approx 20 of which only 15 or so were working at any time
- the wifi service was very limited to public areas around the central atrium but that atrium also had a live string quartet playing continuously and a bar closeby...
Who could complain... just imagine after 10 days on a ship that the internet might be a nice thing 2 have available... |
