Use of Skype, Zoom prohibited?
Sep 15, 2013, 3:38 pm
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Sep 15, 2013, 7:46 pm
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I think you're confusing VOIP and video. Totally uncompressed telephone audio is 64Kbps (so with your 1.5 Mbps there could be ~25 simultaneous calls). More realistically, perfectly good audio can be achieved with no more than 20Kbps, or 75 simultaneous calls on your 1.5Mbps connection.
Sep 15, 2013, 8:12 pm
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Didn't AA have a TV commercial showing a mother video chatting with her daughter to promote connectivity.
It seems the commercial is no longer on youtube, but that's what i recall.
It seems the commercial is no longer on youtube, but that's what i recall.
Sep 15, 2013, 9:02 pm
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Sep 17, 2013, 8:10 am
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Sep 17, 2013, 8:42 am
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Sep 17, 2013, 9:32 am
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Sep 17, 2013, 10:14 am
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Sep 17, 2013, 12:10 pm
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Little different than you original position when you claimed you wouldn't need the flight attendant:
He claimed he would enforce it himself.
The FAs won't need to when I'm around because I will do it for them. Anyone using VOIP within earshot of me will not get away with it...
Sep 17, 2013, 12:28 pm
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I used DirecTV Sunday Ticket for NFL games this Sunday. Audio was perfect, video was highly pixellated and really unwatchable. Pretty sure, this streaming would be bandwidth clogger, akin to Netflix, but no restrictions.
Sep 17, 2013, 6:56 pm
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Didn't realize it's prohibited. But I've been able to use VOIP (Magicjack app - excellent call quality) and even Facetime (the video was fine) on GoGo WiFi equipped aircraft without any problems. But I've always kept the calls short (under two minutes) and just for status updates and I've also kept my voice down (not to disturb my fellow PAX and also since I like to keep my phone conversations as private as possible). Never made more than two calls on any transcon flight.
Sep 17, 2013, 6:59 pm
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Didn't realize it's prohibited. But I've been able to use VOIP (Magicjack app - excellent call quality) and even Facetime (the video was fine) on GoGo WiFi equipped aircraft without any problems. But I've always kept the calls short (under two minutes) and just for status updates and I've also kept my voice down (not to disturb my fellow PAX and also since I like to keep my phone conversations as private as possible). Never made more than two calls on any transcon flight.
(My employer agrees as the company will not buy employees it.)
Sep 18, 2013, 5:45 am
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If the call, video, whatever is negatively affecting me, and there is a rule against it, then I will ask the FA to enforce the rule. If it is not negatively affecting me I won't ask the FA to enforce the rule.j
Sep 18, 2013, 8:31 am
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Sep 18, 2013, 9:29 am
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I often use VOIP on the flight, although it doesn't alway work well (bandwidth issue). Skype may be blocked, but there are lots of other VOIP.
Why the assumption that somone talking on a device (be it VOIP or cell phone, be it on a plane or anywhere else) must use a voice louder than normal conversation? I could see a passenger asking the fellow passenger to not scream or to please use a normal voice as an acceptable request, but to tell another passenger to not use one's "computer" for VOIP is flat out rude and uncalled for... kind of like noticing that someone used airplane mode instead of a full shutdown and either telling the passenger to actually shutdown or narking to the FA about it.
Why the assumption that somone talking on a device (be it VOIP or cell phone, be it on a plane or anywhere else) must use a voice louder than normal conversation? I could see a passenger asking the fellow passenger to not scream or to please use a normal voice as an acceptable request, but to tell another passenger to not use one's "computer" for VOIP is flat out rude and uncalled for... kind of like noticing that someone used airplane mode instead of a full shutdown and either telling the passenger to actually shutdown or narking to the FA about it.