Originally Posted by
RobOnLI
SMS relies on the carrier which isn't available via WiFi so that's not going to work. But iMessage can be sent via WiFi.
-RM
That's not entirely true or perhaps an oversimplification... Yes true SMS as in the thing that rides in the GSM management overhead requires the carrier but plenty of SMS implementations tunnel the message through a pipeline that can be used on Wi-Fi. For example Verizon Wi-Fi calling or Android messages... I've sent and received plenty of SMS-terminated messages using in-flight Wi-Fi just up till this point paid.
Seems like for those Android of us who don't see any value add in WhatsApp this is a bit of a nothing burger...
Originally Posted by
Collierkr
I am not sure VPN of any sort works on inflight wifi. Anyone have success with this?
Oh yeah I've used the Cisco AnyConnect (last week) and IPSEC clients (pre Windows 10) to connect to my own corporate data centers and also a few clients, and the Palo Alto networks excuse for a VPN client to connect to some other clients... From all three Wi-Fi platforms United uses