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killamongaro

In-Flight WiFi Quality

I'm curious about people's experiences with in-flight wifi quality. I know latency is awful, because physics and stuff. I'm flying out to Madrid the day an event starts that I really want to watch starts on Twitch, and I was curious if it is even a little bit feasible to watch it on the plane. I doubt it's possible, but curious if anyone has tried.

Edit: Looks like the consensus is no as I figured. Guess I'll just have to miss the first several hours of it. Thanks for the responses.

Posted May 18, 2015, 3:18 AM UTC · edited

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laryroseAmerican Expat in Japan•

I've heard that loading pages is rough.

Forget about streaming.

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azooki•

in-flight wifi quality is less than average, most especially when ur "up there". if u want to watch an event then goodluck i don't think thats possible. but of course i could be wrong, im just saying basing on my experience.

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cmn_jcsUS of A•

Agree with u/laryrose--while performance depends on the system you're using, I wouldn't attempt streaming. You're not going to get great results, and you'll just be taking up bandwidth others could be using.

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electricsheep12345Canadian - 14 Countries Visited•

HIGHLY dependent on the airline.

When I flew Lufthansa it was good enough to surf Reddit, chat with my mom on Facebook, post pics, etc. Anything streaming is out of the question and as others have pointed out an unfair hogging of limited bandwidth.

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