Originally Posted by fripperies:18679520
Originally Posted by
Sam Bee
The quality was good enough for me to have a SKYPE video call with my daughter (small lag). Occasionally it was slow, but fine for 90% of what we would do. And Facebook went down when we were over China
It must have been lovely for you, and your fellow PAX, to chat with your daughter. Sorry I wasn't there to share the pleasure. But I look forward eagerly to the day when everyone can be chattering merrily with their absent nearest and dearest.
Look, I know irony is cheap but honestly, what other possible reaction can this elicit? I could try reasoning, or appealing for mercy, but what's the BP?
I thought this was interesting actually in terms of what it means for bandwidth available and persistence of service.
Sam Bee's acknowledgement of sparseness of cabin when he used it demonstrates the other point - that education of the users and influencing their behaviour is more important than the rather more crude provision or non provision of the capability. Not that that makes me an advocate of the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" school of thought!