There are a few providers:
GoGo - Delta, American, United P.S. routes, Alaska, most Virgin America
Row44 / Global Eagle - Southwest
Panasonic - most international ones, half of United
Viasat - JetBlue, half of United, some Virgin America
Some service vendors use the same hardware and spectrum suppliers, some don't.
Gogo's satellite based system won't go live until "second half of 2014" Source. Their system is currently only air-to-ground (they actually call it ATG).
There are airlines that charge you for each carry-on that you have. I know Spirit Airlines does this, and I've heard that there are others but I'm not sure which.
I think I've seen sub 600ms, but on the order of 800ms may be more typical? Maybe around a second? I was on flights a few months back so I don't remember the numbers offhand. Coming from a cable connection at home I expected to find the lag to be a bit more bothersome than it was, but that could be a function of my activities (with video/audio streaming, the delay doesn't matter as much). Geo satellites are 22,000 mi up, so that's 500+ms of travel time. Which actually makes 600ms seem less realistic, so maybe that wasn't a real number. Sorry for a rambling response that doesn't really answer the question.
Full disclosure: I work for the company that JetBlue is partnered with to provide the satellite link, and I work on this project specifically.
There was a media flight yesterday morning that had a bunch of aviation press on it, all trying to push the system to its limits. Here's what one blogger had to say: "Speedtests proved that the WiFi remained fast, registering between 12-28 Mbps, even with over 60 devices connected and pushing activities like Netflix Instant, Google Video Hangouts, Ustream live streaming, and Skype calls." Engadget also has more details about the media flight.
There are obviously a lot of posts about the service, but out of the ~10 that I read those had the most details about Wednesday morning's actual flight.
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There are a few providers: GoGo - Delta, American, United P.S. routes, Alaska, most Virgin America Row44 / Global Eagle - Southwest Panasonic - most international ones, half of United Viasat - JetBlue, half of United, some Virgin America Some service vendors use the same hardware and spectrum suppliers, some don't.
Gogo's satellite based system won't go live until "second half of 2014" Source. Their system is currently only air-to-ground (they actually call it ATG).
There are airlines that charge you for each carry-on that you have. I know Spirit Airlines does this, and I've heard that there are others but I'm not sure which.
I think I've seen sub 600ms, but on the order of 800ms may be more typical? Maybe around a second? I was on flights a few months back so I don't remember the numbers offhand. Coming from a cable connection at home I expected to find the lag to be a bit more bothersome than it was, but that could be a function of my activities (with video/audio streaming, the delay doesn't matter as much). Geo satellites are 22,000 mi up, so that's 500+ms of travel time. Which actually makes 600ms seem less realistic, so maybe that wasn't a real number. Sorry for a rambling response that doesn't really answer the question.
Full disclosure: I work for the company that JetBlue is partnered with to provide the satellite link, and I work on this project specifically.
There was a media flight yesterday morning that had a bunch of aviation press on it, all trying to push the system to its limits. Here's what one blogger had to say: "Speedtests proved that the WiFi remained fast, registering between 12-28 Mbps, even with over 60 devices connected and pushing activities like Netflix Instant, Google Video Hangouts, Ustream live streaming, and Skype calls." Engadget also has more details about the media flight.
There are obviously a lot of posts about the service, but out of the ~10 that I read those had the most details about Wednesday morning's actual flight.