That sounds really cool, but you know what has me rolling on the floor laughing? The airlines say we can't use even radio receivers for fear that the low level EM fields they generate will trigger a false alarm in the cockpit, but now that there financial benefits to allowing the use of transmitters, they're for it! Curiously, though, the use of a GPS receiver is permitted 'cept for takeoff and landing. I wish I could get a handle on the spirit of the rules, since the letter makes no sense! How is a WWVB watch going to goof up the avionics? Or a walkman? Or a scanner? What is the crucial difference between that and a GPS receiver or a WiFi card?
Gordon Arnold -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 January 2003 12:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wireless digest, Vol 1 #20 - 1 msg Send wireless mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of wireless digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Anyone heading to Germany next month? (Tim Pozar) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:42:11 -0800 From: Tim Pozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Anyone heading to Germany next month? http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1570531 January 15, 2003 Lufthansa and Cisco Put Wi-Fi in the Plane By Eric Griffith At last, the days of your laptop being nothing more than a method of playing Minesweeper on airline flights may be coming to an end. Deutsche Lufthansa AG is currently doing passenger trials of in-flight Wi-Fi- and Ethernet-based access to the Internet. Partnered with Boeing Company (Quote, Company Info) and Cisco Systems (Quote, Company Info), the Lufthansa flight -- part of a project called FlyNet -- will travel from Frankfurt, Germany to Washington D.C and back for the next three months. The plane in use is a Boeing 747-400 equipped with Connexion By Boeing, a system for providing high-speed, real-time data services via satellite. The network from Cisco includes five Cisco Aironet 350 Access Points, a Cisco 3640 Router, and nine digital switches for the hardwired Ethernet connections found in some seats in First Class and Business Class. The wireless, obviously, reaches everyone on the plane. The data throughput for users on the plan is about 3 Megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and 128Kbps for uploads. The service is initially free to any one on the Germany to US flights; Jonathan Hindle, strategic technology manager for the World Wide Mobile Team at Cisco, says that this trial is, in part, about finding out what people will pay for the service. [...] --__--__-- -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless End of wireless Digest -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
