Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches

Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:18PM (#14665614)

I VPN and have received (though not answered) FaceTime Audio calls in the air.

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Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches by tjohns on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:27PM (#14665687)

Well, sure, there's workarounds. But most people aren't going to be running a VPN.

And the documentation for in-flight WiFi explicitly instructs you not to take voice calls, out of consideration for other passengers. You wouldn't be out of line politely asking somebody to stop.

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Re:Inmarsat's European short-haul wi-fi spacecraft launches by athenot on Thursday June 29, 2017 @03:32PM (#14666187)

I also have a VPN and have been able to make calls. However, a latency hovering around 1,500ms and very heavy jitter mean that no matter what encoding you try to use, the connection will be crap.

Text chat on the other hand is perfect. Low bandwidth, soft realtime.

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