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"[...] you know that it’s not much of an improvement over 1990s AOL-era dial-up. Gogo’s connectivity speed amounts to about half the average download speed on

"[...] you know that it’s not much of an improvement over 1990s AOL-era dial-up. Gogo’s connectivity speed amounts to about half the average download speed on Verizon’s 4G network," Oh dear, how far we've come (or not, tech journalism has always been crap) - the average download speed on Verizon 4G[1] is >30mbps, a 90's dial up would have been 56kbps - so half the 4G speed is 275 times faster than dial-up (or, in terms a journalist can understand: 27500% faster!) 1: http://www.cnet.com/news/4g-lte-showdown-how-fast-is-your-carrier/ http://www.cnet.com/news/4g-lte-showdown-how-fast-is-your-ca...

martingordon 11y ago
The article is a bad summary of the original BW article[1]: > Gogo can provide a plane with as much as 10 megabits per second of connectivity, which is about half the average download speed on Verizon’s 4G network. Only one-third of Gogo-equipped planes, however, have the hardware to reach even that speed. The rest top out at 3 Mbps. If only 10 people are on it, then you're getting ~5x dial-up, which would be great if the internet was the same as it was in 1999. I would guess that webpages have grown more than 5x in size since then, making effective speeds much slower than dial-up (estimates range from 2-10MB for an average news article [2]). 1: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gogo-airplane-wireless-internet/ http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gogo-airplane-wireles... 2: http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-debate-reveals/ http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-deb...
JadeNB 11y ago
On the other hand, page sizes have gone up so much since the 1990's that the subjective experience isn't necessarily hugely different, despite the enormous absolute speed increase. (On the other hand, I've—mercifully—forgotten what those days felt like, and have never used Gogo, so I can't really compare.)

martingordon 11y ago

The article is a bad summary of the original BW article[1]: > Gogo can provide a plane with as much as 10 megabits per second of connectivity, which is about half the average download speed on Verizon’s 4G network. Only one-third of Gogo-equipped planes, however, have the hardware to reach even that speed. The rest top out at 3 Mbps. If only 10 people are on it, then you're getting ~5x dial-up, which would be great if the internet was the same as it was in 1999. I would guess that webpages have grown more than 5x in size since then, making effective speeds much slower than dial-up (estimates range from 2-10MB for an average news article [2]). 1: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gogo-airplane-wireless-internet/ http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gogo-airplane-wireles... 2: http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-debate-reveals/ http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/08/03/what-the-ad-blocker-deb...

JadeNB 11y ago

On the other hand, page sizes have gone up so much since the 1990's that the subjective experience isn't necessarily hugely different, despite the enormous absolute speed increase. (On the other hand, I've—mercifully—forgotten what those days felt like, and have never used Gogo, so I can't really compare.)