Eric Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Has anyone been on a BA flight recently with WIFI? The long haul flights now seem to have a WIFI service that you can get for £8 I'm travelling to NY when the Edinburgh derby is on in April and am hoping the WIFI will be good enough to stream it either through sky or the dodgy streaming service I have on my phone/tablet. I'm not sure sky will work if not in the UK though? Any ideas? p.s. I know it will be a shite game not worth watching before anyone pipes up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I haven't used the WiFi on BA flights before, but I used it on an Etihad flight about 3 years ago and it certainly wouldn't have been fast enough to stream any sort of video. It worked for general web browsing, but was fairly slow to load anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 It sounds like it's improved a lot recently. Saw an article from April 2018 saying they had tested the speed on their flight and were getting between 2.5 - 6.5 Mbps which I think should be good enough t stream if its consistent. Just wondering if anyone had any first hand experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I'm going to Vegas next week and am flying BA, will let you know what the Wi-Fi is like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Nice, we're heading on to Vegas after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 It's decent enough so you can check emails etc but i tried to watch live sports a couple of times on different flights and it was buffering central Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted January 17, 2019 Author Share Posted January 17, 2019 Yeah I thought that might be the case. I’ll give it a bash and see. At least I’ll be able to check twitter and stuff for updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Wasn’t BA but used it with United to NY and it was fine for browsing but not for anything more than that. Also would expect that the Business/First Class will be utilising it and the speeds would slow down. If you’re lucky, you might manage to get a commentary stream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 16/01/2019 at 09:54, Eric said: Has anyone been on a BA flight recently with WIFI? The long haul flights now seem to have a WIFI service that you can get for £8 I'm travelling to NY when the Edinburgh derby is on in April and am hoping the WIFI will be good enough to stream it either through sky or the dodgy streaming service I have on my phone/tablet. I'm not sure sky will work if not in the UK though? Any ideas? p.s. I know it will be a shite game not worth watching before anyone pipes up I’m sitting on a 747 on the way to Vegas right now. Two packages available, one for just browsing and the other if you want to stream. I’m on streaming package and it’s great, have watched stuff on YouTube with no buffering. £16 for 4 hours or £24 for the whole flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 23/01/2019 at 11:11, Div said: I’m sitting on a 747 on the way to Vegas right now. Two packages available, one for just browsing and the other if you want to stream. I’m on streaming package and it’s great, have watched stuff on YouTube with no buffering. £16 for 4 hours or £24 for the whole flight. Legend thanks for the details. Fingers crossed for seeing the derby then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Div Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 On 24/01/2019 at 22:40, Eric said: Legend thanks for the details. Fingers crossed for seeing the derby then No bother. As an aside we had Wi-Fi on our flight out to Vegas which was a 747 from Gatwick but no Wi-Fi on the return flight which as to Heathrow and was a 777. Either way both planes were really old with small, terrible screens and absolutely dreadful food so suggest to take your own grub and download some Netflix stuff to watch offline in case there is no connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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