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Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by koolba on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:14PM (#42604168)
Buffered streaming is quite different than a two way call. The latency on traditional airplane WiFi would make video calls more like a two way radio with “Over!” pauses in between.
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Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by harrall on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:22PM (#42604237)
Sure, but my point isn’t that over technical specs. Plane Wi-Fi is already good enough to let people do some seriously rude stuff but yet I have not heard of it being a problem.

United, who are the ones quoted to be adding Starlink, has already invested some of the most I have seen in on-plane Internet so this is just a gradual upgrade for those who fly United.

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Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by bobmcnamara on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:25PM (#42604270)
I did this once.

I explained the situation ahead of time to a coworker in the same meeting and that I'd answer any questions via chat.

A little surprised it worked as well as it did.

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