There are lots of problems with airplane Wi-Fi, but speed isn't one of them

If you can remember trying to make a cellphone call in the '90s, then … congratulations!

You remember the joys of searching for enough bars on that little LCD screen to phone home, hoping you didn’t get cut off mid-sentence because you moved three feet to the right.

Even so, it was a quantum leap forward compared to dialing numbers on a rotary phone.

Fast forward 20 years, and mobile phones work nearly everywhere. But nobody calls anybody. To get anything done, you need the internet.

Fortunately, you can get connected almost everywhere — except on a plane. Read more...