&quot;I work for ViaSat&quot;<p>Well, well, well...<p>So, does viasat use different beams for the airplane links than the normal ground based, satellite consumers ?<p>I assume yes, since most of the beams for ground users are <i>stupendously</i> oversubscribed, such that you can&#x27;t even open gmail or load your banks website during a lot of the business day.<p>Our solution for rural Internet used to be a plain old T1 from AT&amp;T @ $450&#x2F;month, and we replaced it with 12mbps viasat at $149&#x2F;mo ... and there isn&#x27;t a day that goes by that I don&#x27;t wish we had that T1 back ...