I love it that you can be online during flights now... Or do I hate it?

Dec 03 · 11 days ago · 👍 curry

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In my experience it works about 40% of the time. It was nice while I was traveling alone and keeping in touch with my wife back home. They offered it free for texting and it was pretty rigid, couldn't even receive pictures. I wonder how well Gemini would work...

Works great

yes, it should work great because only a few bytes of text are transfered when loading a gemini page.

I can load gemini pages with no signal bars on my phone 😀

This time it was flawless.

There was nothing worth watching from the entertainment system. Uncanny -- dozens of bad movies and bad or old TV shows. Hacker news was way more fun.

In all fairness, this really depends on the airways, the duration of the flight and the region. I have yet to be on a flight that is less than 6 hours long that has internet access on-board. And it also depends on how reliable it is in my experience. They often seem to have a whitelist for domains and only allow certain ports/protocols.

Delta cross-US flights have been very reliable as in-flight internet goes. Free if you enroll in a mules program. Works with gemini.