Question: is there wifi in space?

Andrea Boyd answered on 17 Jun 2016:

Yes – but it’s like dialup speed (ask your parents) because, for firewall reasons, it’s a remote desktop connection to a computer in Houston so it’s pretty slow. Email however is super fast and so is video and voice communication as we use a direct satellite link for almost everything to the space station and the crew just use internet for personal things like facebook and twitter. There is wifi with a router in Node 1 and Node 2 modules – from Columbus and JEM you can connect to the Node 2 wifi for example and the others you’d connect to Node1 for the strongest signal.

Crew also has their own personal ISS webpage with preuploaded things so it’s faster.