Wait so you pay a lot of money to fly, then need to pay for wifi too? Is this the year 2005?!
Some airlines offer free wifi, but the ticket prices are usually higher. There’s definitely a pretty large cost to offer wifi on an airplane. Most of it these days is satellite based, and there are large antennas on top of the airplane in a dome shaped structure. This increases drag requiring a slight increase in fuel burn. Over time that adds up. The prices here do seem high, considering you only get a small amount of bandwidth. The 80MB option can be blown through just by viewing photos.
Yeah but data rate caps are money grab bullshit and everyone knows it.
If they really wanted to measure it per what it costs them it’d be unlimited with speed caps, just that doesn’t make nearly as much money
And like any right drag increase(by extension fuel) would be easily lost to favorable or unfavorable winds, the noise is so small considering it is a joke - the extra $0.01 per flight ain’t gonna cost them the $50 per passenger they’re charging (made up numbers but I’m not gonna whip out drag calculations just yet lmao)
Should be traffic shaping instead of data caps.
One can text at 50kib/s and the other can stream at 2 mbit/s or something like that.If their upstream data provider charges them per megabyte, it doesn’t make sense to give away unlimited internet.
Plus, the price needs to be high, or internet access will be too slow to be useful anyway.
Total available bandwidth is between 5 and 15 megabits per second for the entire plane, with very recent technological developments supposedly raising the speed cap to 200mbps. If you’re in the latest model with the best connection available (flying over land + in range of backing satellites) you’ll get maybe 2mbps in a plane with 100 people, at latencies of up to a second, but more likely you’re going to be stuck at a tenth of that.
“Pay $50 to watch tiktok on the plane for a short while” is easier to sell than “now with WiFi you can barely text over”. Making people save data helps improve everyone’s experience.
Well yes. It really depends how your ISP sells you the service and how you resell the service.
Wasn’t aware how small the bandwidth is. Neat to know
Scoot is one of the cheapest flights in mainly south east asian region. They are in pair with ryanair in cheapness and low quality service.
in pair
Do we have a boneappletea magazine on Lenny?
I’ll give them the Benny fit of the doubt and assume it’s an autocorrect failure, but yes: !boneappletea@lemmy.world
Oh okay thanks, had no idea. :-)
Infrastructure for Internet access on a plane is very expensive and low-bandwidth so this is not surprising
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I like how it is cheaper to buy it upfront. Like they can load an extra bag or two full of internet if they know you need it.
yeah, and that streaming… they get very butthurt if its bidirectional… for like… an online meeting.
Talk about breach of social etiquette.
Out of curiosity: what do they actually do if you do outward streaming? Do they come to your seat and tell you to stop? Or do they bill you more? Or shut you off?
they absolutey come and tell you to immediately turn off: ‘your phone call which is explicitly not allowed’ and they have the ‘or else’ tone.
Scary! Thanks for the info…
What would the ‘or else’ be?
they will call the captain and or forcibly take the device/restrain you if in the air, or kick you off if you havent left yet.
I think weve all seen enough non-compliance airplane videos.
I haven’t actually, ha. Thanks for explaining.
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I like that the pre-purchase discount for the 1GB is less in absolute terms than the pre-purchase discount for 20MB
How am I supposed to update my distribution with this?
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80 MB will hardly load you a single web page.
The fuck are you browsing?
Some intranet site developed with React + Angular + Vue + jQuery + during development the dev tried a lot of packages but didn’t delete the unused ones + no tree shaking + bundled all of the assets in the page
This is what happens when people don’t use their brain while coding.
These amounts in the OP are BS, but 80MB for a single webpage is also not true. The rule of thumb for web development is to shoot for less than 2 MB per web page.
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A single DuckDuckGo tab seems to be around 800 kB. No idea where you got your number from.
No, it’s definitely a data cap. For one thing, you’re not getting gigabit internet, let alone giga_byte_, on a plane… but they also list the actual speed for the 20MB cap, a pitiful 64kbps. That’s barely faster than dial-up.
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Anyone else read “Bomb” for the Surf 80 data session value? No? Just me?
Haha I didn’t but now I see it :D
Jokes on them, I brought a Starlink dish in my carry-on.
