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Oct 3, 2022, 2:12 pm

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MapleLeaf93

Join Date: Nov 2019

Location: SEA

Programs: AS MVP Gold

Posts: 138

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedPanda5

not easily, unless you have an android phone that can share your wifi (various google pixels and some others I'm not aware of):
https://support.google.com/pixelphon.../2812516?hl=en

it's also possible to share the wifi connection via bluetooth, but i've not tried this myself:
https://www.electronicsforu.com/spec...ng%20Bluetooth.

The other option I like to use is a travel router. Just did that this past weekend on a 737-900 (flying SEA-HNL) to share Tmobile-provided wifi from my iPhone with my iPad and my wife's laptop.

As others have stated, it's a near certainty you'll have 2Ku wifi if you're on a 737-900 or Max9. The only active ETOPS-certified one of those that doesn't currently have 2Ku wifi (N948AK) was only brought into service a week ago. On a 737-800, your odds drop a bit. There are still a dozen of those without 2Ku out of the 47 that are ETOPS-certified (so you'll have a 75% chance of wifi). If you want to know ahead of time, look up the tail number for your flight on alaskaair.com/flightstatus and then cross-reference that with what's reported on Weebly for that plane.

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