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Starlink-based ones have enough bandwidth for the whole plane to have workable bandwidth (just rate-limit based on client so no single heavy user hogs the entir

Starlink-based ones have enough bandwidth for the whole plane to have workable bandwidth (just rate-limit based on client so no single heavy user hogs the entire bandwidth). There's also an European one whose name currently escapes me which uses a custom flavor of LTE and special ground stations that also happily provides hundreds of mbps. Capacity is primarily an issue on the legacy BGAN-based ones where you have a handful of mbps for the entire plane.

latentpot 1y ago
That's EAN, also used by BA as the backhaul.
- Nextgrid 1y ago
  That's the one, thanks!
- Thlom 1y ago
  EAN is a joint venture between Inmarsat (now Viasat) and Deutsche Telekom. The system uses a combination of ground based LTE and satellite connectivity.
pbhjpbhj 1y ago
You can do 100s of mbps with a flag and a pair of binoculars... Sorry, pet peeve: do you mean MB/s, Mb/s, or something else? Probably not the milli-bits per second (mbps) that you wrote.
- Nextgrid 1y ago
  I mean Mb/s; just reusing the same terminology a lot of speed tests use (they report in Mb/s but often refer to it as "mbps").
- dbalatero 1y ago
  mbps has always been used for megabits
esskay 1y ago
Sadly most planes still run on legacy systems, it's not something that's ever a priority.
wouldbecouldbe 1y ago
Yes those are awesome