Although I was presented with a $12.95 purchase now option when I initially logged into GoGo InFlight on my return flight from San Francisco, I found that simply re-entering the code from the card that I had used on the flight out to San Francisco gave me the service for free again. According to the card, it’s only supposed to work on a single use, so I’m curious if I will be able to continue using it for free WiFi on flights until it expires on 10/31/2009. I’ll be flying to my brother’s wedding in Nashville, Tennessee in October, so if GoGo InFlight is offered I’ll be able to try it again.
I noticed a few things that I didn’t notice the first time I blogged about the service. Although I could have sworn that I was logged in with both my iPhone 3GS and my MacBook simultaneously last time, this time, whenever I logged in with one, I found the other disconnected, which is hardly ideal. However, purchasing the $12.95 account for the laptop (even though I ended up getting it for free with the code from the promotional card, that’s what I was “billed” for initially), covers both devices. They offer a separate mobile version for just under $10 for mobile devices that doesn’t cover both.
Also, although HTML loads quickly, AIM chat worked well, and uploads were relatively speedy (uploading images and videos from the iPhone 3GS was about the equivalent of doing so from a 3G connection), I discovered that download speeds were atrociously slow with the service. I purchased Muse’s new album on the iPhone 3GS and it was downloading about one song every 45 minutes, so I only managed to get 2 songs of the 11 song album downloaded before we landed. For comparison: after I landed and connected to 3G, all but 3 of the songs on the album managed to download within the 30 minute ride from JFK to my apartment. That’s about three times as fast as the speed GoGo InFlight was giving me.
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