Air to ground and satellite connections for in-flight WiFi: https://onezero.medium.com/what-makes-it-possible-to-browse-the-internet-at-35-000-feet-1afaea83eb5
(It's expensive, affects the plane's shape and fuel efficiency, and the fastest is still only 100 Mbps!)
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I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses!
I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.
I'm impressed and slightly surprised that I can browse the web even when my local library's wifi blocks detectportal.firefox.com ("Download sites are banned").
It seems that Firefox only requires the website to be redirected when there's a captive portal.
Reading the beta 4 release notes for Haiku R1, it's striking how much work it is to support modern WiFi protocols: https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta4/release-notes/
Previously, 802.11ac was only supported on Linux and OpenBSD! (Ignoring proprietary operating systems)
