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Old Dec 6, 2019 | 10:33 am
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Originally Posted by FlyerJ
Im intrigued ... Air Canada now claims that they have “streaming” speed wifi on their wide body fleet, fast enough to support streaming video, and it works internationally. My understanding is that they use Gogo. How do they make that work?
The latest gen Gogo internet Ku band satellites are suitable for streaming. Streaming isn't latency sensitive - in other words, if your video is 1 or 2 seconds behind no problem. You need bandwidth (ie mbps) for streaming, but latency (ms per packet of information to go from you to the satellite to the ground then back) doesn't really matter.

Real time synchronous connections (and in fact Outlook is a horribly talkative app, FYI) are where you notice that kind of thing impacting performance. VOIP is another example that doesn't do well on high latency connections (at all) unless tuned carefully and even then it's noticeable.
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