[Starlink] Re: Starlink on United

j pan
2026-01-28T18:14:49Z

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.