danhunterpost

Anyone have any knowledge of purchasing United wifi with miles? I saw this option on UAs website here:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/con...wifi/faqs.aspx

Anyone know what the going rate is?

WineCountryUA

Wifi rates vary based on flgiht length -- purchasing with miles is discussed in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...pre-check.html

physioprof

In my experience, it's priced at less than 1 cpm, so not a good deal.

filton216

Hi all.

I'm thinking of flying United from DUB to IAD next year and wondering how much is the wifi on that route aboard the 757?

Thanks

FLYDCA

I think on that route will it will only tell you the price once you go to connect

Richym99

$16.99 currently, or at least it was two weeks ago.

mymilesandpoints

it was 16.99 for my 13 hour flight last week EWR-NRT.

iluv2fly

Same for my SFO-HKG last week too.

rmannion

After the move off of the PIN code passwords, I'm finding that my strong (32 char, letters/numbers/symbols) password doesn't work in the United Club wifi or for in-flight wifi. Has anyone had this issue? I suspect I need to shorten/simplify my password :/

jmg32

International flight on United to Japan on a 777-200. Their website says the flight has WiFi but no details on the provider (it said they offer multiple providers) or type of service. From what I've read, the older GoGo did not support video streaming but the newer Ku-band does. I saw one site which said some of United's planes now offer the Ku-band, but not many.

Just wondering if anyone out there knows what United WiFi supports on an international flight to Japan. Would love to have access to WatchESPN to watch college football during the trip. Worst-case scenario I can just do game cast and read the play-by-play.

I've seen a lot of articles on in-flight WiFi but none are terribly recent. Hopefully there's been a breakthrough...

TIA

Yoshi212

Which flight are you planning on taking as different UA aircraft have different systems. PMUA 772 vs PMCO 772 differ in when Wifi connectivity was installed.

jmg32

UA803

Yoshi212

UA 803 is operated by an PMUA 772 (3 class setup). From what I remember the PMUA 772s were outfitted with wifi before the PMCO 772s so it may have the older connectivity or may have been upgraded but the fleet page doesn't denote which system is installed on it. I have asked a MOD to move this to the UA subforum as someone may have access to more detailed info. Some planes do service specific routes routinely but routes see a different plane each day for fleet utilization maximization so it's harder to predict. accurately.

sannmann

Watching the game streaming on-board is not going to work. Note from the United wifi FAQ:

Why can't I use Netflix or other streaming video websites?
Live video and Internet streaming services are not permitted. Streaming video from a website requires extensive bandwidth and will not work as well on a plane as it does on the ground.

mymilesandpoints

Oh and then interestingly it was 21.99 for NRT - LAX on my way back for some reason, even though EWRNRT is longer than NRTLAX.