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.
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.
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
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)
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?
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