Wifi aircraft

Technology and speeds are improving quickly though. Gogo is launching a new 2Ku service, with speeds up to 70 Mbps perfectly good for streaming, and better than many ground connections.

This is the first network to make use of both ground-based and satellite systems and launched last year with first customer British Airways. Immarsat is optimistic about its potential spread in as we found out in a recent interview with Dominic Walters, Vice President at Inmarsat Aviation. Despite advances in technology making inflight WiFi easier, faster, and cheaper, many airlines do not offer it.

The equipment remains expensive to install and to maintain. This adds costs for the airline, as does the increased drag from exterior antennas. There is still an expectation that you are cut off during a flight and many do in fact enjoy that!

Budget or low-cost airlines have been slow to adopt it for example. But so have many major long-haul airlines, including Qantas for example. Aircell offers an unlimited usage plan for a monthly fee as well as usage based plans. Satcom Direct is a global service provider for Inmarsat, Iridium, and Yonder networks as well as datalink services. These networks have different capabilities, and monthly fee and usage based plans are available. Sometimes more than one HSD solution can be installed in an aircraft to increase internet accessibility.

A fast, domestic system can be installed alongside an international-capable system. Depending on the systems and router used, the transition from one service to the next can be almost seamless when crossing into areas with different coverage. An authorized service center will have a better understanding of the aircraft and will have greater support from the equipment manufacturer, he says.

Equipment dealership agreements are a necessity, as an installing agency must be a dealer to install the equipment, says Steve. Dealers are the most capable of resolving any equipment issues that may occur. The connection transmission outside of the plane has the same security measures as the data signal you get on your smartphone on the ground. The wifi signal within the plane is as secure as the service that you get from any wifi router connection. However, you are at risk whenever you connect to a wifi service in a public place.

Anyone can set up a wifi hotspot. Any smartphone, tablet or laptop can receive signals from other devices without connecting through the router on the premises. This enables him to read all of your data as it passes through his computer. In order to protect your internet connections on a plane, as with any public wifi hotspot access, you should use a VPN.

This service will apply an extra layer of encryption which extends end to end beyond the control of the hacker and it cannot be cracked.

You can read more about VPNs in this article. You also run a legal risk when using wifi on a plane. When traveling over a large body of water, or flying on an airline that only uses satellite connections, then you are safe from local jurisdiction.

However, if you access wifi that is carried through terrestrial transmitters, then technically, you need to comply with the law in each of the countries you pass over on your journey. Each country has different laws about what sites and content is permitted. Not being a citizen of those countries you fly over does not make you immune from the law. This gives the Pakistani government the right to arrest Pakistani passport holders and those who qualify for a Pakistani passport wherever they are.

You could end up breaking that law. So, if one of your grandparents was from Pakistan and you want to access YouTube which is banned in Pakistan on a flight from Cairo to Bangkok, you would be advised to check with the flight map exactly where you are before you hit the ENTER key.

There are many sites and categories of web services that are banned in many of the countries that you fly over. The fact that those sites are legal in your home country is no defense from arrest.

Those VPNs that will protect you from hackers will also protect you from snoopers and government spooks because they make it impossible for anyone who intercepts your communications from reading their contents, thanks to encryption. Internet access on planes is only going to get better and more widespread. Make sure that you keep your connections private as technology makes more access to more complicated content possible.

In-Flight Entertainment Turnkey Bidirectional high speed. Extremely low latency. Achieving affordable and reliable office-like connectivity in the air has proven to be a daunting challenge. Satellites provide high Stay connected to business partners, family and friends around the world through broadband satellite connectivity.

Use the Wi-Fi access to surf the Internet and to communicate via e-mail and Because we know how valuable your cockpit space is. We set our design engineers the challenge of fitting a lot of functionality