Originally Posted by kennycrudup

Y'all funny- but as someone who gets it for free and uses it every time (and has a portable router so I get it on all my devices), it's totally hit-or-miss, and after hundreds of flights the only factor that I know for sure can cause bad speeds is cloud cover- but there's been times when it's been blue to the sun and it's just not very good- I'm figuring age/last calibration/number of users/... must play a part, as there's times I'll get ~1.5Mbyte/sec (and have been at times for years) and then there's times I'll get a few bits at a time. What's amazing in the times the IP service is bad I'll switch to TV, and that works perfectly- but I don't know if that's downlinked from DishNetwork on the plane, or IP from the sats.

I do feel for the folks who pay $8 for a bad experience though.