another trip out to San Diego from Dallas and I could barely have enough bandwidth to check work emails and reply consistently without losing a connection.
Then i saw a casual flyer pull out their computer and fire up the "free" Southwest offerings of live tv and they were streaming nice HD video without any buffering. I then fired up the Live TV and received a great picture and then went back to my emails and had great bandwidth and then lost it after about 2 minutes, then I went back to the tab with the HD Video and it had stopped. Each time i started the Live TV the bandwidth was better until it stopped.
My conspiracy theory is that Southwest is funneling the Bandwidth to their offerings of Live TV/Movies and throttling other use of the bandwidth. It's just odd that the HD video is so good when I can't even get outlook to work consistently. I'd be curious if others would try this to see if there is any validity to it.