Anyone else notice GoGo is much slower since it became free?
Nov 30, 2009, 12:02 pm
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Anyone else notice GoGo is much slower since it became free?
I'm wondering whether the promo is causing enough usage to saturate the bandwidth available. Flying today BOS-SFO, simple pages like the FT forum pages take up to a minute to load, and it is not particularly variable. Of my 20 or so GoGo-enabled flights I've taken, performance is by far the slowest on this one.
Assuming more usage is the problem, personally I'm looking forward to January when the fees kick back in.
(Supporting this hypothesis: within 2 minutes of the announcement that carry ons should be put away in preparation for landing, performance sped up to the levels I'd seen on previous flights...presumably a bunch of people went offline.)
Assuming more usage is the problem, personally I'm looking forward to January when the fees kick back in.
(Supporting this hypothesis: within 2 minutes of the announcement that carry ons should be put away in preparation for landing, performance sped up to the levels I'd seen on previous flights...presumably a bunch of people went offline.)
Last edited by MikeBOS; Nov 30, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Dec 8, 2009, 5:49 pm
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I have absolutely noticed that. Since it became free I flew them... five times? But I have also noticed some consistent areas where service was slow no matter what. Seems like too many people wanted to download stuff or watch videos.
Was reading http://www.gadling.com/2009/12/07/ai...+%28Gadling%29 the other day, and if true, then they can really use some upgrades to that in the future before it becomes completely unusable....
Was reading http://www.gadling.com/2009/12/07/ai...+%28Gadling%29 the other day, and if true, then they can really use some upgrades to that in the future before it becomes completely unusable....
Dec 9, 2009, 2:45 pm
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I have absolutely noticed that. Since it became free I flew them... five times? But I have also noticed some consistent areas where service was slow no matter what. Seems like too many people wanted to download stuff or watch videos.
Was reading http://www.gadling.com/2009/12/07/ai...+%28Gadling%29 the other day, and if true, then they can really use some upgrades to that in the future before it becomes completely unusable....
Was reading http://www.gadling.com/2009/12/07/ai...+%28Gadling%29 the other day, and if true, then they can really use some upgrades to that in the future before it becomes completely unusable....
Dec 9, 2009, 7:27 pm
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Dec 10, 2009, 11:49 pm
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I'm wondering whether the promo is causing enough usage to saturate the bandwidth available. Flying today BOS-SFO, simple pages like the FT forum pages take up to a minute to load, and it is not particularly variable. Of my 20 or so GoGo-enabled flights I've taken, performance is by far the slowest on this one.
Assuming more usage is the problem, personally I'm looking forward to January when the fees kick back in.
(Supporting this hypothesis: within 2 minutes of the announcement that carry ons should be put away in preparation for landing, performance sped up to the levels I'd seen on previous flights...presumably a bunch of people went offline.)
Assuming more usage is the problem, personally I'm looking forward to January when the fees kick back in.
(Supporting this hypothesis: within 2 minutes of the announcement that carry ons should be put away in preparation for landing, performance sped up to the levels I'd seen on previous flights...presumably a bunch of people went offline.)