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Old Jun 20, 2014 | 9:57 pm
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TommyC80
 
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Originally Posted by goalie
I flew on a PS flight JFK-SFO with a fellow F/t'er and friend during the Red Sox/Tigers baseball playoffs last year and she had Slingbox. She set it up via gogo wifi on her netbook and I was able to watch the game*. There were a few freezes which required a reboot but the quality was good overall (including minimal sound & video mismatch such as the sound of the ball hitting the bat after the video showed the hit)


*at least hat I watched as I was also busy chatting with a f/a I knew tho I digress
Interesting. I'm sitting on 512 into SFO right now. Gogo will not connect to my slingbox from my iPad, phone or MacBook, just like every other time I've tried it over the last few years. Maybe she was using a VPN or other workaround.
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