CXFlyerBoy

Hello all,

Needed to get some work done while on a flight to HKG next weekend and so will have to get the WiFi pass when flying CX650. Hopefully it does not change craft. Anyone tried tethering the connection off their laptop to phone vice versa? How is the connection?

VAFlyerSAN

The WiFi service was powered by Panasonic (T-Mobile) satellite internet and offered fast speeds of 2.0Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up. This is sufficient to get work done on a flight. Full details can be found towards the bottom of my review.

QRC3288

Yes, I've done what you ask. It only allows one connection at a time but works seamlessly. You log in to your computer and the phone logs out, and vice versa.

Connection is excellent albeit with variability flight to flight. Some flights you can even stream videos, others it's really only practical for email and whatnot. I can't figure out what drives it. I had my slowest CX WiFi experience to BKK recently - multiple times service went down, or email was struggling to upload attachments of less than a MB - whereas to TPE last week it was blinding speed to where I could watch Bloomberg videos. Both flights were full house according to ISM. I feel fairly confident in this assessment, I think I've used WiFi 20x or so now. Pretty much every time I fly A350 I use it. However, don't let my bad experience to BKK dissuade you; even then I was highly productive, and the service was comparable to QR on a "normal" day.

Of the airlines I fly consistently CX is either the best, or one of the best, in terms of of intl flights. Blows JL, QR and EK out of the water. SQ has those miniscule datacaps per plan and also has slower connection, to boot. CX has some major problems but wifi (on the A350...) ain't one!

LoveHateRelationship

One thing you could try is to connect a travel router to the wifi and hotspot it to your devices. Technically you're not supposed to have any transmitting features on so I'm sure the people around here who never break the rules will have something to say. I tethered off my phone via cable to my laptop, it worked nicely but my speeds were a bit slow on this flight.

sxc

Some posts related to wifi on the 777s have been moved:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...0s-2020-a.html

sxc
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