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From: j pan <panatuvicdotca@gmail.com>
To: Steve Golson <sgolson@trilobyte.com>
Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: [Starlink] Re: Starlink on United
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:14:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHn=e4hiNc=_vaWoNkn7jBs8ptPenbBwB9YeJzCCp87C6Kq8EQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e91379a-a4a6-4105-9c7a-8cf36f938416@trilobyte.com>

Thanks Steve and all: if you encounter starlink (or other inflight
wifi) on your next flight, please have some tests per
http://tinyurl.com/starlinkuser page 2 so we can correlate too. cheers

On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 10:08 AM Steve Golson via Starlink
<starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I took two flights over the weekend on United, with Starlink. 200+ Mbps from gate to gate. Quite impressive.
>
> On our second flight, while still standing in the terminal, I was able to log on to the aircraft's Starlink WiFi. That's pretty good WiFi range! A mere 30 Mbps on that connection though, with some packet loss.
>
> -Steve
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-28 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-28 18:08 [Starlink] Starlink on United Steve Golson
2026-01-28 18:14 ` j pan [this message]
2026-01-28 18:19 ` [Starlink] " Frantisek Borsik
2026-01-28 19:13   ` Steve Golson
2026-01-28 19:34     ` Ulrich Speidel
2026-01-28 19:46       ` Steve Golson
2026-01-29  6:02         ` j pan

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