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In my experience, flying over oceans or less populated areas on the US reduce the speeds to a crawl, if you get any connection at all. It's different for every
by collias 6y ago
In my experience, flying over oceans or less populated areas on the US reduce the speeds to a crawl, if you get any connection at all.
It's different for every airline, but I believe the system for Southwest just uses signals from cell towers, which is spotty at best.
- tjohns 6y agoThis hasn't really been true for a couple years now. Most of the major US airlines have been migrating from cellular to Ka- or Ku-band satellite internet over the last few years. (Including Southwest.) There's some individual aircraft that haven't been upgraded yet, since installing the satellite antenna is a major upgrade. But at least on my flights, most offer it now.