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Old Feb 6, 2020 | 5:46 am
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Originally Posted by FlyerJ
Posted today:

https://thepointsguy.com/news/high-s...-canada-rouge/





I love all of the technical info being shared in this post — interesting (although much is admittedly over my head). My challenge: from what some have said here, WestJet’s wifi is no worse than anyone else’s. But my experience on my Windows laptop, as I mentioned above, is consistently great and reliable on DL and UA and consistently poor and unreliable on WS.
It's interesting that you mentioned DL. I'm assuming DL uses Gogo ATG rather than satellite for North American flights? I have never used satellite internet so I can't compare. I recently flew out of ATL on DL and I used Gogo. It was ok at best. I'm not sure if it's fast enough to stream Netflix. I mostly browsed the web and used messaging on that flight. It still doesn't feel very snappy compared to using Wifi on the ground or even the LTE network if that makes any sense. I can somewhat feel the lag. It's better than nothing though.
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