Prices for wifi in the plane (scoot) : mildlyinteresting

[+] PlasticFrog@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year 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)

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Well yes. It really depends how your ISP sells you the service and how you resell the service.
Wasn't aware how small the bandwidth is. Neat to know

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

in pair

Do we have a boneappletea magazine on Lenny?

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll give them the Benny fit of the doubt and assume it's an autocorrect failure, but yes: !boneappletea@lemmy.world

[-] dbx12@programming.dev 45 points 1 year 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.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Talk about breach of social etiquette.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Scary! Thanks for the info...

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

What would the 'or else' be?

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 41 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How am I supposed to update my distribution with this?

[+] bcron@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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[+] cholesterol@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

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[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

80 MB will hardly load you a single web page.

The fuck are you browsing?

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Eudaimonia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

Mildly Interesting