Recently signed up for in flight internet on a British Airways flight. No encryption and no passwords.
Appreciate it isn't a cafe where any ne'er do well can saunter by and wipe one's hard drive BUT, would encryption and/or a password be useful at 38,000 feet above the Atlantic? Oddly I was not able to connect to a VPN either, not sure if this was a bandwidth or port blocking cause.
BA offer two options for internet. £20 for flight duration and claim good for streaming movies, there is plenty onboard anyway but guess all the big streamers are available whereas the onboard entertainment is good but limited.
Me, being a cheapskate went for the £4.99 option which is apparently suitable for text messaging, not sure if this is achieved by very low bandwidth throttling or what but was unable to ever surf any web pages.
Worked OK for whatsapp and telegram, except when it didn't work OK for whatsapp and telegram
Geffers
Appreciate it isn't a cafe where any ne'er do well can saunter by and wipe one's hard drive BUT, would encryption and/or a password be useful at 38,000 feet above the Atlantic? Oddly I was not able to connect to a VPN either, not sure if this was a bandwidth or port blocking cause.
BA offer two options for internet. £20 for flight duration and claim good for streaming movies, there is plenty onboard anyway but guess all the big streamers are available whereas the onboard entertainment is good but limited.
Me, being a cheapskate went for the £4.99 option which is apparently suitable for text messaging, not sure if this is achieved by very low bandwidth throttling or what but was unable to ever surf any web pages.
Worked OK for whatsapp and telegram, except when it didn't work OK for whatsapp and telegram

Geffers