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by dabeeeenster 610 days ago
No mention in TFA of total available bandwidth for the plane?
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https://www.starlink.com/support/article/da6ca363-da23-c9dc-...

>Starlink delivers up to 40-220 Mbps download speed to each plane, enabling all passengers to access streaming-capable internet at the same time. With latency less than 99 ms, passengers can engage in activities previously not functional in flight, including video calls, online gaming, virtual private networks and other high data rate activities.

I'm guessing they will severely limit the bandwidth to maybe 1-2Mbps per ticket.

I doubt anyone can stream much of anything.

The fact that it's free to the end-user seems like it would increase the number of users by enough to negate the increase in total bandwidth.

I wonder if they will go back to a fee, even a tiny one, just to limit the number of users. It will be interesting to see how that works out.

Higher bandwidth in Business and First, no doubt.
There's no restrictions of the sort
Not sure if that actually holds true for all customers, but their public website says up to 220Mbps DL per Starlink terminal.