What technology improvements are happening that have allowed satellite internet on flights to get progressively fast over the years?

Question

I’m just curious what the bottlenecks are and what has been done to improve those. Because I remember when it would take 10 seconds to send an imessage and now I can watch YouTube when my connection is solid. Just impressive and I’m curious about it.

In: Technology

Answer 1

In addition to the other reasons given by others, the connection hasn’t always been satellite either. Some of the earlier connections were actually over a cellular link. So imagine all the passengers on the plane sharing the same cell phone data connection.