Tell HN: I'm posting this while in flight over Atlantic Ocean

[novateg]

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.

[nicbou]

It's a German airline promoting German culture. Hence the slow internet.

[daringrain32781]

My real moment of shock and awe was flying over the pacific earlier this year on Hawaiian and measuring ~350mbps down.

[raw_anon_1111]

It looks like all of the major big 3 American Airlines offer this as well as BA, Virgin and AirFrance.

[novateg]

It reminds me early 2000s dial up internet, you have to wait for every single request.

[satvikpendem]

Lots of airlines do this, no?

[eevmanu]

what about any post from old.reddit.com ? is it accessible ?

[cpach]

I haven’t tried, but I’m guessing it would be much slower than HN.

[iExploder]

another solid proof of the Firmament

[firefax]

text.npr.org is another good low bandwidth site op