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This was discussed in DN community a lot. Cruise ships are useless for slow internet.

by jkot 10y ago

toomuchtodo 10y ago
Cruise ships are slowly being outfitted with high speed spot beam internet access. A friend working on RCCL's Quantum Of The Seas can pull 50-60Mbps off hours.
- jkot 10y ago
  Shared among hundreds of people... Not really reliable connection.
  - Tiksi 10y ago
    In my experience, these kinds of connections are QoS'd on a per-port/protocol level, so every client gets an equal amount of bandwidth on that port. If you can get a tunnel or vpn connection going on a less used port you'll generally get far more bandwidth. Being on a non-standard port also helps since the systems are often under provisioned for the size of the NAT table they have to hold. That's all assuming you can get an open port between a remote server and you, but usually there's at least some way to get a connection on not 80/443. That said my experience is pretty out of date so it could be different these days. Thinking back, since I figured out that I could tether my motorola v710 for free 10 or so years go, mobile internet has gotten faster and far more reliable, (though a lot more expensive once smart phones made data plans more than an underutilized $5/mo gimmick on feature phones,) I've rarely used public wifi.
- Darthy 10y ago
  The service is called "VOOM" and it's now offered on every RCCL ship. The speed is impressive - easily fast enough to work at sea imho. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks
- fla 10y ago
  Sadly, that is probably a 56k per user in practice.
Kiro 10y ago
DN?
- jkot 10y ago
  Digital Nomad subreddit
mst 10y ago
He fairly specifically said that the terrible net access was part of what made him productive.
DanBC 10y ago
Getting good Internet when you visit a town every few days and working offline while at sea is fine once you get used to it. Maybe that's just because it's how I grew up with networks, doing everything in batch mode. ("Bluewave offline email", for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Wave )

This was discussed in DN community a lot. Cruise ships are useless for slow internet.

by jkot 10y ago

This was discussed in DN community a lot. Cruise ships are useless for slow internet.

Cruise ships are slowly being outfitted with high speed spot beam internet access. A friend working on RCCL's Quantum Of The Seas can pull 50-60Mbps off hours.

jkot 10y ago
Shared among hundreds of people... Not really reliable connection.
- Tiksi 10y ago
  In my experience, these kinds of connections are QoS'd on a per-port/protocol level, so every client gets an equal amount of bandwidth on that port. If you can get a tunnel or vpn connection going on a less used port you'll generally get far more bandwidth. Being on a non-standard port also helps since the systems are often under provisioned for the size of the NAT table they have to hold. That's all assuming you can get an open port between a remote server and you, but usually there's at least some way to get a connection on not 80/443. That said my experience is pretty out of date so it could be different these days. Thinking back, since I figured out that I could tether my motorola v710 for free 10 or so years go, mobile internet has gotten faster and far more reliable, (though a lot more expensive once smart phones made data plans more than an underutilized $5/mo gimmick on feature phones,) I've rarely used public wifi.
Darthy 10y ago
The service is called "VOOM" and it's now offered on every RCCL ship. The speed is impressive - easily fast enough to work at sea imho. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks
fla 10y ago
Sadly, that is probably a 56k per user in practice.

Kiro 10y ago

DN?

jkot 10y ago
Digital Nomad subreddit

mst 10y ago

He fairly specifically said that the terrible net access was part of what made him productive.

DanBC 10y ago

Getting good Internet when you visit a town every few days and working offline while at sea is fine once you get used to it. Maybe that's just because it's how I grew up with networks, doing everything in batch mode. ("Bluewave offline email", for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Wave )