Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Slow Downloads with Wi-Fi on planes

Click on the arrow at the bottom left of the video to begin the playback. This shows the download of a poker site in flight, for those who may want to play a game on the plane as they do on the ground.

The big difference is that in the air, the data link is a slow DSL service. You can see the difference it makes in the time to download. This file is downloading at between 16 - 18 Kbps or about 1/3 the speed of a dial up modem. It will take about 12 minutes to download 9.7 MB.

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