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Old Feb 15, 2019, 5:01 pm
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Originally Posted by JHake10
I bought wifi today and couldn't even refresh my Gmail app. Imagine streaming a movie.
PDE content streams from the plane's server and not via a connection to the ground (which is needed for gmail). The two are mostly inrelated unless the plane's server is down. Very common for PDE to be working but no internet.
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