U.S. Airport Wi-Fi Upgrades Offer Hope Connection Speeds Won’t Always Be Miserable
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We don't expect Wi-Fi to be breezing at 35,000 feet but there's no shame in holding airports on the ground accountable for faster speeds at this point and it looks like they've listened to demand.
Web browsing became a little more pleasant at the seven busiest U.S. airports during the past year as their average Wi-Fi speeds got faster and terminals from coast to coast invested in updates to their Wi-Fi technology.
Denver International Airport's $1 million Wi-Fi upgrades made last year are evident as it had the fastest Wi-Fi of the seven airports for which data was analyzed between March and May 2015 by wefi, a mobile data analytics company. Perhaps only a marginal bump in speed--increasing from 4.33 megabits per second to 4.73 year-over-year, Denver's Wi-Fi is an outlier as the other six airports landed at plus or minus 3.5 megabits per seco
