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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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