Originally Posted by gnaget
What about speed? I noticed that it was pretty sluggish. When it came up again I ran a speed test: 190 kbps.
190kbps must be considered a great speed considering that you are up in the air and that the signal is being bounced of a satellite. If it gives a sluggish impression, then that is more likely to be due to the long delay in the transmission to the ground. I did some testing on a Lufthansa flight over Russia, and the delay was getting close to 1 second at times, but around 0.6 seconds most of the time. When surfing and clicking around on different pages a long delay can really make things feel slow even if the data transfer itself is quite fast.