Shall have to look into that again, perhaps it was just where the plane was in 
the air and geographically speaking, when I tried it that was to blame.



Regards,

Neil Barnfather

Talks List Administrator
Twitter @neilbarnfather

TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, 
Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com

URL: - www.talknav.com
e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com
Phone: - +44  844 999 4199

On 13 Feb 2013, at 14:15, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote:

> Streaming works perfectly fine for music. Bandwidth isn't bad at all. 
> However, some ports are blocked.
> Jonathan
> On 13/02/2013, at 10:19 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <for...@talknav.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Sieghard,
>> 
>> My understanding is that bandwidth is not enough, possibly even deliberately 
>> so, so as to not permit VOIP calling.
>> 
>> I heard they deliberately do this because they do not want a cabin full of 
>> folk on the phone, shouting away!
>> 
>> My experience has been that band width is enough to e-mail etc, surf the 
>> net, albeit slowly, and that's about it. no chance whatsoever of streaming a 
>> movie or even low quality music, and no chance of VOIP.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Neil Barnfather
>> 
>> Talks List Administrator
>> Twitter @neilbarnfather
>> 
>> TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple 
>> iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
>> accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com
>> 
>> URL: - www.talknav.com
>> e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com
>> Phone: - +44  844 999 4199
>> 
>> On 12 Feb 2013, at 18:36, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> I wonder just how many flights actually have in-flight WiFi at this point. I
>>> was on 7 individual flights in the States in the last year and not a single
>>> one of them had in-flight WiFi. If this is representative I guess this is
>>> not all that common yet. And I really want to be on one that does have it so
>>> I can call a friend over in Germany with Skype and say that I am calling
>>> from inside an airplane *smile*
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Sieghard
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>>> Of Christopher Chaltain
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:30 AM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Re: Airplane Mode
>>> 
>>> Yes, if your flight has in flight wifi, which may not be free.
>>> 
>>> On 12/02/13 12:28, cathy harris wrote:
>>>> When the plane has reached it's flying altitude, can you text?
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Sharonda Greenlaw" <sbgreen...@gmail.com>
>>>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:13 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Airplane Mode
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> And if the airplane has in-flight Wi-Fi, you can also turn on Wi-Fi 
>>>> and listen to music that way.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone; please excuse all mistakes
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 12, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Christopher Chaltain 
>>>> <chalt...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> True, you could listen to music stored locally on your device. You 
>>>>> could work with any data stored locally.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/02/13 21:19, Stacey Robinson wrote:
>>>>>> Oh, ok, I see.
>>>>>> You could listen to music or something like that though?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Air plane mode turns off all of the radios on your iPhone, wifi, 
>>>>>>> GPS, cellular and so on. It puts your iPhoneinto FCC compliance 
>>>>>>> when you're taking off or landing in a commercial air liner.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 10/02/13 22:01, Stacey Robinson wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>> Could someone explain to me exactly what airplane mode does?
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Stacey Robinson and Chesley
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Christopher (CJ)
>>>>>>> chaltain at Gmail
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" 
>>>>>>> Google Group.
>>>>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
>>>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
>>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>>>>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at 
>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google 
>>>>>>> Groups "VIPhone" group.
>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, 
>>>>>>> send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Christopher (CJ)
>>>>> chaltain at Gmail
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" 
>>>>> Google Group.
>>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
>>>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>>>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>>>> For more options, visit this group at 
>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
>>>>> ---
>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google 
>>>>> Groups "VIPhone" group.
>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, 
>>>>> send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Christopher (CJ)
>>> chaltain at Gmail
>>> 
>>> --
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google
>>> Group.
>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>> For more options, visit this group at
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
>>> ---
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>>> "VIPhone" group.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" 
>>> Google Group.
>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
>>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
>>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>> For more options, visit this group at 
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
>>> --- 
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
>>> "VIPhone" group.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
>>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google 
>> Group.
>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>> For more options, visit this group at 
>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
>> --- 
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
>> "VIPhone" group.
>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
>> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>>  
>>  
> 
> 
> -- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google 
> Group.
> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at 
> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
> --- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
> "VIPhone" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
> email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>  
>  

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google 
Group.
To search the VIPhone public archive, visit 
http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/.
To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.


Reply via email to