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		gambiting on Aug 23, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Disconnect. Offline only I fly probably a 15-20 times a year and I've never been on a flight with wifi. I'm super curious what it's like though.

manigandham on Aug 23, 2017 [–]

90% of the time it's like really bad coffee shop wifi unless you get a nice airline with ViaSat connections installed, then it's actually pretty good.

copperx on Aug 23, 2017 | [–]

Good enough to make calls via VoIP?

manigandham on Aug 23, 2017 | | [–]

No, these satellite connections have bad latency and VOIP traffic might be filtered out.

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