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Originally Posted by UAL T38 Phlyer (Post 2487963)

You won't see a "router" in the cockpit:

This has slowly been happening since July; I found out purely by accident. (This is on the 767-300 fleet; seems to be true on the 757RR as well).

Just select the united-wifi (under "Settings") on your ipad; the same that the pax use.

With no fee: WSI, FlyingTogether, company email, and Pilot Mobile work. In July and August, CCS worked, but not any more.

I just sent a note to the Fleet Manager, though, because while the 66XX jets have been working remarkably well, I've only gotten a 64XX jet to work once...and it was horribly intermittent, as in ten minutes to log in, and worked for one minute.
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Maybe so, but that's not what was promised. That uses the same login as the passengers, so you are sharing the bandwidth with them, hence slow and erratic at times.

Also, the other point of a separate crew access was to allow us access at times when advised to shut down internet access to passengers during security events.

[MENTION=13219]flyboycpa[/MENTION], CCS is not white listed. Even though the link is in flyingtogether, it will not let you access it unless you purchase access.

Sorry, no trip trading over en route.

I don’t think having a separate router would deliver more bandwidth, it would still be limited by the system limitations. The security argument I can understand however.

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Originally Posted by worstpilotever (Post 2488441)

I don’t think having a separate router would deliver more bandwidth, it would still be limited by the system limitations. The security argument I can understand however.

Yes, you can. You can do priorities according to ports to allow more or dedicated bandwidth for flt deck purposes. But, it seems, UAL is reneging on that promise. Yes, limited by the basic system, but you don't need a second router. Just a dedicated channel so to speak.

On the 777, the wifi is so bad, it's basically unusable, even if we had dedicated ports, the speed is useless. It works about 1 in 4 flights, and when it does work, the speed is so slow you can't do even basic textual based web pages. It's embarrassing.