Virgin America Holds Inaugeral GoGo WiFi Flight - Specs and Video Published

Posted on November 23, 2008 at 5:23 am (PST)

Virgin America held it’s inaugural Aircell GoGo WiFi flight yesterday. The in-air Internet service has already been in place via Delta, American and Air Canada but this is Virgin’s first foray. Virgin promises 100% of their American flights will use the GoGo service by April.

Here are some stats by folks who had the pleasure of attending the sky borne event:

* The connection clocks in at 3.6Mbps downstream and 1.8Mbps upstream.
* Latency is between 200-500ms.
* The system uses 802.11a/b/g, with an open AP.
* The company blocks voice and video chat to keep things less obnoxious for your fellow man.
* BitTorrent and similar programs work.
* Virgin America will not be filtering content.

Below is a short video explaining how the system works. The future is here, finally: