Lufthansa Group provides 100kb per second free WiFi for texting. It looks like some sites like HN and lite.cnn.com are still accessible with this speed.
Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean
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#2It reminds me early 2000s dial up internet, you have to wait for every single request.
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#3what about any post from old.reddit.com ? is it accessible ?
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#4Lots of airlines do this, no?
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#5It looks like all of the major big 3 American Airlines offer this as well as BA, Virgin and AirFrance.
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#6another solid proof of the Firmament
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#7what about any post from old.reddit.com ? is it accessible ?
I haven’t tried, but I’m guessing it would be much slower than HN.
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#8It's a German airline promoting German culture. Hence the slow internet.
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#9My real moment of shock and awe was flying over the pacific earlier this year on Hawaiian and measuring ~350mbps down.
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#10text.npr.org is another good low bandwidth site op