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Today — while flying to Vegas for BlogWorld — I finally joined the Mile-High club!
Get your mind out of the gutter… I meant the Mile-High Blogger club!
Note: This post was written at 35,000 feet — thanks to in-flight WiFi Internet (brought to you by GoGo.) And I gotta say — Eddie inspired me to write this post, with his Facebook post today:

Those of you that know me, know that I occasionally party (read: drink a lot!!!) And am a big fan of my mini bottles! Take a look at the souvenirs I had after a couple long flights:

But yeah — nowadays the availability of in-flight WiFi is such a priority for me — that I pick routes based on its availability. Today, I’m flying AirTran from Sarasota to Las Vegas. AirTran was one of the first airlines to install GoGo WiFi on their entire fleet. Now, you can find GoGo Internet on the following major carriers:
- AirTran
- AmericanAirlines (some)
- Delta
- United
- Virgin
- AirCanada (coming soon)
And I mean — we’re talking good, crisp Internet — this ain’t no podunk Kentucky dial up shit.
I’m able to stream my favorite YouTube content — notice the progress bar is far ahead:

And the delay isn’t bad either — fast enough to make Internet phone calls (using Skype.) Quality was quite good — even though planes have quite a lot of background noise!

So I figure — might as well combine my 2 favorite past times — in-flight alcohol + Internet together at last… I celebrated with a mile-high video chat toast! Cheers!

Okay — for you normal kids — that’s all I’ve got for today. Techno-dweebs, read on…
The airplane shows up as a Texas IP — I guess it makes sense to be centrally located. Its in the 12.130 block — AirCell space:

I hopped over to speedtest.net and was able to pull 2Mbps down!

That’s faster than my Verizon 3G air card… and good enough for just about anything.
And the best part about it is — you can surf FREE — first time buyers, use discount code AIRTRANTRYGOGO at checkout.
Hmm… and if its not your first time? Simply create a new account — and you can try GoGo free again and again!
Safe travels!










