![]() It is not clear how much bandwidth would be available to individual passengers if the plane was packed with 400 Tik-Toki-ing holidaymakers all trying to get online at once, but OneWeb said the test flight crew were able to simultaneously make Teams calls, stream Netflix and 4K YouTube content, and play online VR and Nintendo Switch games. ![]() OneWeb said latency was “well under” 100 milliseconds, and the testers were able to carry out a 5 GB file transfer in approximately 20 seconds. The results look promising, with in-flight downlink speeds peaking at 260 Mbps, and 80 Mbps achieved on the uplink, which is no mean feat on an object travelling at several hundred miles per hour. The terminal is named Sidewinder – hopefully after the snake and not the heat-seeking air-to-air missile – and incorporates electronically steered antenna (ESA) technology made by another partner, Ball Aerospace. The test saw a Boeing 777 passenger plane connect to OneWeb’s network using a specially-designed terminal made by Stellar Blu, which signed a joint development agreement with OneWeb back in November last year. Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites could soon be used for in-flight broadband, following a successful test by UK-based OneWeb and its partners.
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