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BYOIFE

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Bring Your Own In-Flight Entertainment


Who needs in-flight movie selections when you can hook up to iTunes movie rentals at 30,000 feet for $3.99? Count this blogger in for a connected flight!

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The service is called Gogo, but it's Aircell underneath the hood. Walter Mossberg of the WSJ reports he couldn't stream video very well given some apparent network quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms deprioritizing video in favor of email-type traffic. Don't get your hopes up for iTunes movie rentals in the air... at around 1.5GB for the movie, you'd be lucky to finish downloading an iTunes movie before the plane landed.

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