Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi

Re:Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi by myrandomcomment on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:10AM (#20485841)

The comment about the 24Mbps is pretty impressive. My experience every month on the JAL flights SF to Tokyo and Tokyo to $SomeOtherAsianCity is pretty crappy. I wonder if doing this it also bypasses some QoS filters? For example on a flight I tried to open the XM app on my iPad and could not stream a thing (it's pretty low but rate). Slack connects and disconnects all time. Email works but is slow. Webpages take minutes to load. Every flight for the last few years so...

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Re:Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi by UperSpaceGuru on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:48AM (#20486057)

That’s because you’re traveling in airspace covered by different Satellite than the one that covers The American continent. Top speed should actually be ~74MBps.

I was one of the people who helped build the system (not at Viasat)

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Re:Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi by a012 on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:07AM (#20486181)

It's almost a 1Gbps over sat link, are you correct?

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Re:Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi by UperSpaceGuru on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:34AM (#20486366)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViaSat-1

Apparently it’s been benchmarked doing even better speeds. There was supposed to be new satellites launched over Europe and Asia, but at the time, this was the fastest one.

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Re:Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi by jeffmcjunkin on Saturday July 20, 2019 @11:42AM (#20486404)

You're not far from agreeing with each other: (74 megabytes per second) / (1 gigabit per second) = 59.2 percent

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Re:Stunnel and Airline Wi-Fi by kemitche on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:27AM (#20485927)

I bet that viasat.com "connections" are given priority and not throttled for bandwidth - or perhaps since he never registered with the system, it never applied a throttle, under the assumption that blocking access negated the need for a throttle.

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