Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Internet Connection Speed Test in flight

Click on the arrow at the bottom left of the video box to play the video. This is an Internet speed test that measures the data rate between the PC on the plane and the Internet on the ground. Compare this with your home or office.

In fact, you can run the test yourself right now. Click on http://www.speedtest.net/ and then click on the highlighted data server. You will see your own speed and can compare with the Wi-Fi data rate on planes. This test shows a downlink from the Internet of 473 Kbps and 346 Kbps uplink to the Internet from the PC.

Data rates vary based on other users sharing the same connection. So the GoGo rate shown here is a bit lower than usual, probably due to heavey usage by others.

1 comment:

  1. Nice..i am in US i using the AT&T broadband connection.My connection is very very fast speed usually.I use the site IP-Address Details for testing my Internet connection speed.

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