Live TV On American Airlines Flights
Dec 30, 2018, 1:44 pm
#16
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
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You may not be familiar with the different Gogo systems that are installed on commercial aircraft.
Gogo ATG, as in Air To Ground - god-awful slow
ATG-4 - just slow
Satellite Ku, as been installed in a lot of AA and DL long-haul aircraft - tough to call it broadband, and both carriers prohibit video streaming, IIRC
Satellite 2Ku - not too bad, actually, if you can live with the latency. I've seen about 12 Mbps down. DL has more than 400 narrowbodies with 2Ku; I've stopped counting.
Some TV on Gogo 2Ku systems actually is IPTV, not a satellite TV capture. The number of channels (and resolution) is very bandwidth-dependent. https://www.gogoair.com/learning-cen...ve-tv-service/
Gogo ATG, as in Air To Ground - god-awful slow
ATG-4 - just slow
Satellite Ku, as been installed in a lot of AA and DL long-haul aircraft - tough to call it broadband, and both carriers prohibit video streaming, IIRC
Satellite 2Ku - not too bad, actually, if you can live with the latency. I've seen about 12 Mbps down. DL has more than 400 narrowbodies with 2Ku; I've stopped counting.
Some TV on Gogo 2Ku systems actually is IPTV, not a satellite TV capture. The number of channels (and resolution) is very bandwidth-dependent. https://www.gogoair.com/learning-cen...ve-tv-service/
Jan 1, 2019, 10:27 am
#17
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Jan 1, 2019, 10:43 am
#18
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Salt Lake City
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Be prepared to miss the winning putt
I mainly fly international and the signal comes and goes for varying durations. It really stands out as NO SIGNAL as you near the US from Europe. So take a valium, relax, and set your expectations low. Just my personal observstions, but from numerous flights.
Jan 1, 2019, 11:45 am
#19
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: London
Programs: US Gold
Posts: 627
I had live TV all the way across the Atlantic on December 17 14:35 flight LHR-PHL.
I don't want to have to stream their IFE onto my device. I want it on their device so I can use my device for other things.
wg
I don't want to have to stream their IFE onto my device. I want it on their device so I can use my device for other things.
wg
Jan 1, 2019, 3:03 pm
#20
Join Date: Oct 2013
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Jan 1, 2019, 5:13 pm
#21
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: PHX
Programs: AA Ex Platinum & 1MM, DL PLT, Marriott Gold, HH Diamond
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Am on AA 692 PHX-HNL right now & that’s what we have & it’s awful. I’ve actually written & asked for a refund on the cost of this flight pass since the WiFi has been so bad-worse than air to ground Gogo & I didn’t think that was possible.
Jan 1, 2019, 5:20 pm
#22
Join Date: Jul 2017
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I didn't even get it on the return flight, was essentially useless most of the flight for anything other than messaging.