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Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by dghlsakjg on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:00PM (#42604054)
United, and all major carriers I've flown on recently, already offer wifi (good enough to stream YT, in my experience, so presumably already good enough to attend meetings), this isn't a new service announcement.

This announcement is just that they are going to be trialing using Starlink as an ISP in addition to the other providers they already work with.

Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by bigbones on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:18PM (#42604207)
> good enough to stream YT, in my experience, so presumably already good enough to attend meetings

YT needs bulk throughput while meetings need latency and quality. YT can seem smooth for much longer despite massive amounts of retransmission and packet loss, meetings fall apart rapidly with even a tiny bit of those

Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by mark212 on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:33PM (#42604341)
you really have to try it. On a flight to Hawaii in October, I was getting speeds of 300+ mbps and latency that felt like my home wifi. It's just seamless and feels like an entirely different product than any other connectivity I've had in the air.
Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by mrWiz on Sunday January 05, 2025 @11:38PM (#42607722)
The transpacific United flights I’ve been on have all blocked audio and video streaming.