Only 5 Mb/s? (Score 3, Interesting)

Streaming a channel using high compression video and audio codec at CIF resolution will get the data rate down to about 500 Kb/s. Assuming that every bit is used for streaming, that will be 10 channels maximum to be shared between those among the 300 passengers who has the laptop/PDA/phone.

I can see it now, air rage over bandwidth hogs. :-)