Prices for wifi in the plane (scoot) : mildlyinteresting

[+] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Some airlines offer free wifi, but the ticket prices are usually higher. There's definitely a pretty large cost to offer wifi on an airplane. Most of it these days is satellite based, and there are large antennas on top of the airplane in a dome shaped structure. This increases drag requiring a slight increase in fuel burn. Over time that adds up. The prices here do seem high, considering you only get a small amount of bandwidth. The 80MB option can be blown through just by viewing photos.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Yeah but data rate caps are money grab bullshit and everyone knows it.

If they really wanted to measure it per what it costs them it'd be unlimited with speed caps, just that doesn't make nearly as much money

And like any right drag increase(by extension fuel) would be easily lost to favorable or unfavorable winds, the noise is so small considering it is a joke - the extra $0.01 per flight ain't gonna cost them the $50 per passenger they're charging (made up numbers but I'm not gonna whip out drag calculations just yet lmao)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Should be traffic shaping instead of data caps.
One can text at 50kib/s and the other can stream at 2 mbit/s or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Scoot is one of the cheapest flights in mainly south east asian region. They are in pair with ryanair in cheapness and low quality service.

[–] Telodzrum 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

in pair

Do we have a boneappletea magazine on Lenny?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'll give them the Benny fit of the doubt and assume it's an autocorrect failure, but yes: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Infrastructure for Internet access on a plane is very expensive and low-bandwidth so this is not surprising

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

I like how it is cheaper to buy it upfront. Like they can load an extra bag or two full of internet if they know you need it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

yeah, and that streaming... they get very butthurt if its bidirectional.. for like... an online meeting.

[–] QuarterSwede 16 points 8 months ago

Talk about breach of social etiquette.

[–] Rolando 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity: what do they actually do if you do outward streaming? Do they come to your seat and tell you to stop? Or do they bill you more? Or shut you off?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

they absolutey come and tell you to immediately turn off: 'your phone call which is explicitly not allowed' and they have the 'or else' tone.

[–] Rolando 5 points 8 months ago

Scary! Thanks for the info...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What would the 'or else' be?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they will call the captain and or forcibly take the device/restrain you if in the air, or kick you off if you havent left yet.

I think weve all seen enough non-compliance airplane videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I haven't actually, ha. Thanks for explaining.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

I like that the pre-purchase discount for the 1GB is less in absolute terms than the pre-purchase discount for 20MB

[–] AnUnusualRelic 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

How am I supposed to update my distribution with this?

[+] bcron 23 points 8 months ago

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[+] cholesterol 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

80 MB will hardly load you a single web page.

The fuck are you browsing?

[–] sheogorath 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some intranet site developed with React + Angular + Vue + jQuery + during development the dev tried a lot of packages but didn't delete the unused ones + no tree shaking + bundled all of the assets in the page

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is what happens when people don't use their brain while coding.

[–] JackDark 7 points 8 months ago

These amounts in the OP are BS, but 80MB for a single webpage is also not true. The rule of thumb for web development is to shoot for less than 2 MB per web page.

[–] maplecat 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anyone else read "Bomb" for the Surf 80 data session value? No? Just me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Haha I didn't but now I see it :D

[–] ooterness 4 points 8 months ago

Jokes on them, I brought a Starlink dish in my carry-on.

Mildly Interesting