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do you have tmobile? I think the service provider is related. on a side note, I've always gotten iMessage to work on southwest flights without paying. and on

by o-__-o 7y ago

do you have tmobile? I think the service provider is related. on a side note, I've always gotten iMessage to work on southwest flights without paying. and on united you can get to certain google hosts without a paywall. I think that's all I'll share on here for now

bronco21016 7y ago
As someone who practically lives on airliners equipped with GoGo I’m curious what else you have... What Google hosts work? Would creating a tunnel to something on GCE work?
- tekknolagi 7y ago
  Yes. Or at least, it did for awhile. I set up a small server as a SOCKS proxy and it worked great.
  - o-__-o 7y ago
    I used to do OpenVPN on port 53 (DNS) when all the various airplane wifi first launched. suuuuper limiting (that 230 MTU tho) and eventually blockaded. then there was the google XSS-proxy-redirect that I abused for awhile until google removed it (also hella limiting). then i decided all future jobs must pay for my airplane wifi habit, and my experience has gotten so much better (though there are some other tricks I find when i've got nothing to do.. like the redboot bug that gave me free IFE on a long haul flight :)
    - bronco21016 7y ago
      I used both of those as well. They were good while they lasted. Nowadays I find its best to board a GoGo equipped aircraft with a list of T-Mobile numbers. When you find one with a T-Mobile One plan you’ve hit gold.
      - o-__-o 7y ago
        LOL well first of all, I don't think a TMO plan is required just an unlimited plan (I have a grandfathered unlimited plan without the throttling that lets me GoGo) but second, and most importantly, I'm going to tell EVERYONE about this because you sir are a genius.
rootusrootus 7y ago
Nah, Verizon customer (well, T-Mobile now, but that changed a couple weeks ago, my last flight was over a month ago). One trick that you can do if you want a free hour of GoGo WiFi is try numbers until you land on a T-Mobile subscriber number. Not exactly ethical, but neither is the price they charge for a cross-country flight of WiFi ;-)

by o-__-o 7y ago

bronco21016 7y ago

As someone who practically lives on airliners equipped with GoGo I’m curious what else you have... What Google hosts work? Would creating a tunnel to something on GCE work?

tekknolagi 7y ago
Yes. Or at least, it did for awhile. I set up a small server as a SOCKS proxy and it worked great.
- o-__-o 7y ago
  I used to do OpenVPN on port 53 (DNS) when all the various airplane wifi first launched. suuuuper limiting (that 230 MTU tho) and eventually blockaded. then there was the google XSS-proxy-redirect that I abused for awhile until google removed it (also hella limiting). then i decided all future jobs must pay for my airplane wifi habit, and my experience has gotten so much better (though there are some other tricks I find when i've got nothing to do.. like the redboot bug that gave me free IFE on a long haul flight :)
  - bronco21016 7y ago
    I used both of those as well. They were good while they lasted. Nowadays I find its best to board a GoGo equipped aircraft with a list of T-Mobile numbers. When you find one with a T-Mobile One plan you’ve hit gold.
    - o-__-o 7y ago
      LOL well first of all, I don't think a TMO plan is required just an unlimited plan (I have a grandfathered unlimited plan without the throttling that lets me GoGo) but second, and most importantly, I'm going to tell EVERYONE about this because you sir are a genius.

rootusrootus 7y ago

Nah, Verizon customer (well, T-Mobile now, but that changed a couple weeks ago, my last flight was over a month ago). One trick that you can do if you want a free hour of GoGo WiFi is try numbers until you land on a T-Mobile subscriber number. Not exactly ethical, but neither is the price they charge for a cross-country flight of WiFi ;-)