{"id":8839,"date":"2010-09-20T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/pondering_in-flight_wifi.html"},"modified":"2010-09-20T16:16:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:16:04","slug":"pondering-in-flight-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/pondering-in-flight-wifi.html","title":{"rendered":"Pondering In-Flight WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I received an e-mail from my airline telling me the aircraft I would be on likely has <span>WiFi<\/span> but after a bad experience last year where promised <span>WiFi<\/span> never materialized I decided to download all my email locally just to  be sure. Thankfully I was right to take the precaution. Usually I use  Remote Desktop to get onto my desktop machine to access my e-mail which  is located on <span>TMC<\/span>&#8216;<span>s<\/span> servers but when flying I download my <span>inbox<\/span> via <span>IMAP4<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The downsides are that the graphics in many e-mails don&#8217;<span>t<\/span> show up and when you delete e-mails remotely and sync later the messages are permanently deleted.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long while since I have flown with no <span>WiFi<\/span> and my <span>inbox<\/span> which was down to a few hundred is now at the few thousand level. The  reason is I generally check old e-mail when I don&#8217;t have new e-mail to  check. Not the best system but old habits die hard.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to wipe out a few thousand of these in the next few hours on  my trip to Dallas, Texas. So in a way I am actually glad there is no <span>WiFi<\/span> on the flight.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I am grateful for is that I decided to used the cached  stations feature of Slacker (I believe a subscription may be required)  so I can listen to lots of music and even comedy without any Internet  access and having to deal with downloading it all myself.<\/p>\n<p>More to come later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I received an e-mail from my airline telling me the aircraft I would be on likely has WiFi but after a bad experience last year where promised WiFi never materialized I decided to download all my email locally just to be sure. Thankfully I was right to take the precaution. Usually I use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}