Originally Posted by
ScienceTeacher
Some wifi datapoints for those that forgot to download their favourite episodes from Apple TV before leaving the house this morning... . Obviously is time and pax number dependent, but one airline clearly pays for the bare minimum... .
American Airlines:
dl: 55mbps up: 50mbps
British Airways
dl: 0.3mbps up: 0.4mbps
Cathay:
dl: 24mbps up: 77mbps
Heathrow* (Couldn't actually pick this up in AA or CX)
dl: 150mbps up: 50mbps
For January 2026 both BA and AA have upped their game to a respectable 88mbps down and 86mbps down respectively.
Both still give a terrible 5mbps up.
Cathay was 50mbps up and down.
Heathrow went to 250mbps down and 400mbps up, but requires a sign in.
BA and AA seem to be blocking downloads somehow - on Netflix and Apple TV.
Switched to SKY for 5G and managed 150mbps both ways.