Here's another one for you Icehawk...................seems like connections are getting faster every day............which is, as you well know, ultimately, good for us.
Virgin's new in-flight WiFi is strong enough to stream video
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Andrew Tarantola
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Virgin America has announced that it's teaming up with satellite internet company ViaSat to provide the fastest in-flight WiFi
of any commercial carrier. The new system uses a hybrid Ku-/Ka-band
receiver to deliver an internet pipeline eight to 10 times faster than
anything else on the market. The Ka-band alone offers a whopping 140
gigabits-per-second throughput. It's being installed on the company's new fleet of A320 airliners and will be put into service on Hawaii-bound routes
starting next year. That alone is a big accomplishment as the rest of
the airline's fleet have to rely on ground-based WiFi connections, which
don't work over the ocean's expanse. Virgin touts that this in-flight
connection will be equivalent to an average home broadband link and
users are expected to use it as such, streaming videos, watching the
carrier's 18 channels of DishNetwork and surfing the internet with
abandon -- just at 35,000 feet.