Originally Posted by CPH-Flyer

There are always outages on inflight WiFi, the further north the route goes, the worse it gets. I would guess south has the same problem, but I never tried. It has to do with the orbits of the satellites.

LAX NRT goes much further north than NRT LAX, giving a higher risk of connection loss to Japan. Though Tokyo to Europe often goes even higher north.

I think they actually block streaming services tbh. But I don't know.