Originally Posted by
Coast2Coast
2) I've read some posts here on FT about the narrowness of the bandwidth. I can't imagine that the system can support more than 3-5 machines running simultaneously on an aircraft. That being said, I think the reported run speed was 11 Mbps, which in my opinion is not really adequate (the tech folks on here will correct me) to efficiently run an email client - web based or native on a machine.
11Mbps (if the number is true) is more more bandwidth than 90% of US residential users have. Not only is 11Mbps more than adequate to do email client (web based or otherwise) it is also sufficient for watching streaming HD video - of course that depends on how many users are there.