First-hand review of in-flight WiFi on Lufthansa Frankfurt-to-D.C. flight

Read Seattle Post-Intelligencer aerospace reporter James Wallace's review, filed yesterday while on the Lufthansa 747 that was the first commercial jetliner to use Boeing's "Connexion" WiFi service.

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Update: Frank Boosman writes:

The report on this on NPR's Marketplace the other night was cool. The reporter recorded his report as an MP3 and uploaded it during the flight. The encoding at this link is low-grade, but on the radio, the report sounded fine. According to the host, the report was a 4.7MB MP3 file that took 17 minutes to upload, which implies an upload speed of 37.8 kbit/s -- not too bad considering how many journalists on the inaugural flight must have been using that link simultaneously."

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