[Bloat] Review of Delta's in-flight wifi mentions latency!

Rich Brown richb.hanover at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 10:30:55 EST 2023


In this ZDnet article, they showed a screenshot of speedtest.net while using Delta's in-flight wifi. It showed pretty big latency.
 https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/i-tried-deltas-new-free-inflight-wi-fi-heres-how-fast-it-was/

BUT... the good news is that the reviewer commented on it. 

> With ping rates of 600 to 1,000 milliseconds, however, it's absolutely unusable for videoconferencing with Zoom and the like, 
> and only a glutton for punishment would use it for gaming.

They said other services "worked as well as in the lobby of a trade-show hotel". (That's damning with faint praise...)

Nonetheless, this is PROGRESS! Someone in the main stream press acknowledged that latency might be a thing. And that it could harm your network access!

Rich


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