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Most inflight WiFi services block VoIP and video chat, both to conserve bandwidth and to preserve sanity in the cabin.
by tjohns 9y ago
Most inflight WiFi services block VoIP and video chat, both to conserve bandwidth and to preserve sanity in the cabin.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoI VPN and have received (though not answered) FaceTime Audio calls in the air.
- tjohns 9y agoWell, sure, there's workarounds. But most people aren't going to be running a VPN. And the documentation for in-flight WiFi explicitly instructs you not to take voice calls, out of consideration for other passengers. You wouldn't be out of line politely asking somebody to stop.
- athenot 9y agoI also have a VPN and have been able to make calls. However, a latency hovering around 1,500ms and very heavy jitter mean that no matter what encoding you try to use, the connection will be crap. Text chat on the other hand is perfect. Low bandwidth, soft realtime.