April 23, 2003

WiFi at the Airport

I'm posting this from SJC Terminal A (American Airlines). I love having access. It turns out that T-Mobile isn't usable here for some reason. Guess who will be asking for a refund. But the local Waypoint service works great. Not bad for $6.95/day. Of course, I'll only get 1 hour of use, but I wanted to give it a try. Maybe I'll get to the airport even earlier next time, knowing that this is here.

I'm really impressed by the low latency to my DSL line at home and the other machines I've tried. It looks like a good connection via Level3.

C:\>ping dsl.zawodny.com

Pinging dsl.zawodny.com [67.123.9.178] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.123.9.178: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=240
Reply from 67.123.9.178: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=240
Reply from 67.123.9.178: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=240
Reply from 67.123.9.178: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=240

Ping statistics for 67.123.9.178:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 20ms, Maximum =  30ms, Average =  25ms

Not bad at all! :-)

Posted by jzawodn at 07:59 AM