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Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean
Lufthansa Group provides 100kb per second free WiFi for texting. It looks like some sites like HN and lite.cnn.com are still accessible with this speed.
- novateg 10mo agoIt reminds me early 2000s dial up internet, you have to wait for every single request.
- eevmanu 10mo agowhat about any post from old.reddit.com ? is it accessible ?
- cpach 10mo agoI haven’t tried, but I’m guessing it would be much slower than HN.
- satvikpendem 10mo agoLots of airlines do this, no?
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoIt looks like all of the major big 3 American Airlines offer this as well as BA, Virgin and AirFrance.
- iExploder 10mo agoanother solid proof of the Firmament
- nicbou 10mo agoIt's a German airline promoting German culture. Hence the slow internet.
- daringrain32781 10mo agoMy real moment of shock and awe was flying over the pacific earlier this year on Hawaiian and measuring ~350mbps down.
- firefax 10mo agotext.npr.org is another good low bandwidth site op