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 h

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...