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the old wifi (Gogo Inflight) is slow and terrible. The new wifi being rolled out (ViaSat) is better, the speedtest screenshots I've seen have been 50-150 Mbps down.

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But they will still prevent youtube videos. Once you put 150 people on a flight with, that bandwidth will be expected to drop significantly.

Is this changing with the free WiFi rollout? I was on a flight very recently with updated Viasat Wifi and was able to stream YouTube.

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