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Old Sep 19, 2024 | 11:27 am
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Originally Posted by teemuflyer
I'm curious, could someone request a copy of this "log" since it used as a "claim of proof"? I'm just saying one could just make up these figures. And I wonder where this data point is captured? On the plane, the satellite, some another collection point? If on from the plane, how do they know it went anywhere past the router?
I actually looked at a few of my own packet captures, and it was just thousands of re-transmissions. So if they’re counting data, they’re counting failed transmissions over the link. Of course there’s going to be a lot of data transmitted if I’m trying to send a text message with a simple photo attachment and it takes eight hours to complete…. It was the worst Wi-Fi experience I’ve ever had on a flight, yet they claimed I used a ton of data. In 10 hours I might have gotten the equivalent of three or four text messages across and two or three successful page loads from the Internet.

Not trying to be a dead horse on this issue… just sharing general feedback.
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