A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-Flight Network Restrictions

Re:A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-Flight Network Re... by CrossVR on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:48AM (#45537828)

This is likely another layer of security that they didn't break through:

To prevent chat apps from consuming lots of bandwidth typically your connection is severely bandwidth restricted until you pay. If they didn't then someone could simply stream movies from their chat apps.

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Re:A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-Flight Network Re... by ms7m on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:21AM (#45538687)

I don't think so, compared to transcontinental, which lately (before Starlink) has been using the cell towers on the ground + satellite backhaul -- even paying would probably still result in a garbage experience.

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Re:A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-Flight Network Re... by armada651 on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:32AM (#45538815)

The point is that if the connection does have more bandwidth available they wouldn't get that extra bandwidth without paying.

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