The days of slow, unreliable Wi-Fi on aircraft could be coming to an end with Qatar Airways becoming the first to fit Starlink in a Boeing 777 aircraft.
In-flight Wi-Fi is set to improve as Starlink rolls out on commerical jets
The company claims it will have a dozen aircraft fitted with Starlink by the end of the year, with the rest of its fleet equipped with the high-speed satellite broadband by the end of next year. However, hundreds or even tens of passengers attempting to stream or download content simultaneously could still put strain on Starlink’s in-flight Wi-Fi.claims that each terminal can offer 40-220Mbits/sec of download speed, and between 8-25Mbits/sec of upload speed. That’s roughly equivalent to a low-grade domestic fibre broadband connection.
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