Live data from Hacker News

How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

outkastz.com

11–20 of 49 posts

Re: How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

#11
post #5

This looks like it dups a paying customer's IP and MAC addresses. Does that work if both devices are running at the same time? I was under the impression TCP didn't like that.

Agreed, you're basically someone else's session who did the right thing and paid up. I fail to understand why anyone with a decent moral compass would want to do this.

Re: How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

#12
I was recently disappointed by the huge price hike of gogo in flight. It's been $10 for a flight for quite some time now which I'd felt was perfectly fair considering the quality. On my recent flight to NYC for work and play it was $10 per hour which essentially amounts to a 5x increase. I grabbed it for 2 hours and it was just as bad as always. Fine for email and Facebook but unideal for pushing a significant commit on a large git repo.

On the way home I just didn't bother since I'd spent my whole air-fi budget at the beginning of the trip.

Just seemed like an enormous and unfair price hike for a product that hasn't improved whatsoever.

Re: How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

#14
post #4
post #2

stealing a sub-par product is no fun.

YOU HAVE INTERNET ON A PLANE IN THE AIR TRAVELLING HUNDREDS OF MILES PER HOUR! What more do you want?

What more do you want?

People to stop treating recent progress like the rediscovery of fire. Or that future incremental progress is anything other than an inevitability.

Its like telling someone 100 years ago that the very notion of airtravel at all is unreasonable because YOU HAVE THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE!

Re: How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

#15
post #11
post #5

This looks like it dups a paying customer's IP and MAC addresses. Does that work if both devices are running at the same time? I was under the impression TCP didn't like that.

Agreed, you're basically someone else's session who did the right thing and paid up. I fail to understand why anyone with a decent moral compass would want to do this.

This will be exploited by people without a moral compass. What are you trying to get at? The author isn't suggesting this as a life hack for free internet, he's just showing that it can be done.

Re: How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

#18
post #12

I was recently disappointed by the huge price hike of gogo in flight. It's been $10 for a flight for quite some time now which I'd felt was perfectly fair considering the quality. On my recent flight to NYC for work and play it was $10 per hour which essentially amounts to a 5x increase. I grabbed it for 2 hours and it was just as bad as always. Fine for email and Facebook but unideal for pushing a significant commit…

They have a $14 all day pass, which is what I get, since I usually have to change planes when going to the west coast.

http://www.gogoair.com/gogo/listAllProducts.do

Re: How to get Gogo in-flight wireless internet for free

#19
post #13

No tools needed: `arp -a` followed by `sudo ifconfig en0 ether $macaddress` should be enough. You'd be surprised on how many paid-for hotspots this actually works (ethical issues aside).

I haven't gotten TFA to load yet. Is this the same thing? What exactly does this do?
Post reply on HN