So I’m a relative newbie to flying UA (as I am a DL DM and AA EXP) but on my last couple of international and transcon flights (IAD-PEK, PVG-SFO, PVG-LAX and SFO-EWR), I have been getting horrendous speeds (less than 0.10 Mbps download and 0 Mbps upload) and had times where it just doesn’t work altogether for hours on end. Pretty frustrating experience as on DL and AA, I never seem to have these kind of issues on international flights. I thought maybe the issue was due to flying Polar routes but after flying DTW-PVG (which on the map flew straight north from DTW and looked like it was vía Atlantic almost) and AMS-ATL (flew north of Iceland), didn’t notice any issues. Is this normal on UA?

The only positive out of this is that it truly makes me disconnected when traveling!