I’m on a plane.
And yeah, I know you’ve been able to write on a plane for a while now, but I’m also going to POST on a plane.
Thanks to Go Go In Flight on American, I will forever more be really red-eye on my red-eyes from LAX to JFK!
Now, the tests.
Porn? check.
VPN? check.
Skype/VOIP? check (even video was fine).
Bandwidth test: 1758kbs down, 215 kbps up, 178 ping.
Price: $12.95 for the 4 hour 43 minute flight.
I also tried running a long ping to Google, and so far, it’s been pretty impressive:
Ping statistics for 72.14.205.100:
Packets: Sent = 1167, Received = 1167, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 128ms, Maximum = 3789ms, Average = 201ms
The wifi doesn’t turn on (well, it turns on, but you can’t connect to the Internet) until they announce you may use electronic devices, but that’s only about 5 minutes into the flight.
You can access aa.com and a few other sites (wsj.com?) without paying anything.
I love farting on airplanes.
I’m really not sure what else to say.
Except maybe, “Hello future, nice to meet you… FROM THE INSIDE!”
January 16th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Bored, Josh?
January 16th, 2009 at 3:54 am
watch out for that storm over Kansas!! aaaahhhh!
January 16th, 2009 at 7:19 am
I’d be careful with those birds. I heard that you don’t want them flying into your engines.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Hope you read the “emergency water landing” part of the pamphlet!
January 16th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Yep, I just unsubscribed.
January 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Does it have native (dual stack) IPv6? :P
If not you might want consider launching a tunnel.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Nice 1 Josh… It clearly shows your commitment to your blog… funny as hell… even in boredom…
January 17th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Hi, I’m not sure where else to go since I’ve only been with Dreamhost for a month, but I need some help.
I’m trying to open a support ticket, because I paid for a domain that DH never registered for some reason, and the initial response I got was to register it without mention of a refund or anything for the first payment. I tried to open a new ticket to explain that I shouldn’t be paying twice, and after I filled out all 5 pages, the ticket system froze and didn’t submit. Now, when I try to open another ticket, I can’t get past the first page, no matter what I choose.
Can someone please look into my problem, and maybe fix the ticket system so that I can report issues again? Thanks!
January 18th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
at least the snakes should keep the birds away. I loved the random plane fart love. awesome.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
@Sarah, try a different web browser on the ticket submission page. I seem to remember having similar issues a while back. I suppose it’s not fixed yet.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:53 am
?!?
January 20th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
@Tim Linden – you are boring
I shared this post with lots of people. Any C-level executive who mentions his or her love of farting on airplanes gets an A+ in my book, and my loyalty and admiration for life.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I could have done without the porn joke. Been an avid dreamhost web developer for years and have built at least a dozen sites for clients using dreamhost plans. In short, love your service but I’m not excited about sending clients here if they are going to see posts with off the cuff mentions of porn and farting in the blog (which is linked from the front page today for the sale). Just a heads up, love that the blog is fun and funny but its possible to keep the fun-loving-spirit that makes dreamhost dreamhost and still keep it above the belt – most of the time…
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
@Jonathan: You’re overreacting. He was demonstrating that there is no content filter. You seem ashamed that other people can mention the subject in passing.
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Me thinks Jonathan is farth-o-phobic =). Just Kiddin’ Jonathan… I see your point though, just don’t tell where you’re hosting!
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
wow, and at first i thought you were watching the same daytime movie channel i endured today.
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 am
Jonathsn: Just pretend he said “gay porn” so it won’t seem as offensive to you.
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Finally airlines with sense. Most flights still wont even let you use your phone on flight mode. Try sitting a 3-4 hour flight with a iphone or blackberry in your pocket watching shit in-flight entertainment.
However I used my iphone on the flight on my last holiday in flight mode and we didn’t crash and I landed a happier person than i would have been if i had to put up with the 7 channel radio and the extremely poor film
January 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
dw
January 26th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Your servers are constantly down. Gotti and Escobar are always crashing. You have so many people complaining about your service. Why dont you post something meaningful and a little more professional on your official blog, as opposed to proving to us all that we signed up to a hosting company run by high school drop outs.
January 27th, 2009 at 10:47 am
What kind of parents would name a little girl Jason?
January 27th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
[blockquote]What kind of parents would name a little girl Jason?[/blockquote]
Too funny!
Hope you don’t mind Josh, if I do a little livin vicariously through you, brotha!
February 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
What a hilarious picture! Ha-ha…
February 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
its a scarry pic i think.but its cool