MAC addresses at 37000 feet above the Tasman

For researchers on the topic.

On a flight from Melbourne to Queenstown recently and about 90 minutes into the flight (so over the Tasman Sea) I decided to check for MAC addresses due to recent conversations on Substack. There were a lot more than I thought that there would be.

The flight is apparently one with a capacity of 165 seats on an Airbus A320 Neo but there seemed a lot more MAC addresses than 165 so maybe some of those were the devices in the seats and passenger’s personal devices. I really don’t know as I’m a bit naive on this topic. Therefore I’m offering my screen snaps up for other researchers and I hope that they can fill me in with an explanation of what these addresses are. My screensnaps show about 164 addresses and I was only about 40% of my way through them when I decided I’d screen snapped enough of them.

The app used to scan was nRF Connect (the link is to the desktop version).

Email me if you want the rest of the screen snaps.