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I think, in 2025 you are better off with this https://www.starlink.com/us/roam
Often forbidden on cruise ships as it would be on flights for the same reasons (possible interference). In an airplane it's also impossible to make it work though those tiny windows of course. But on a cruise ship balcony it would probably be fine.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/1crxkx9/starlink_... Apparently a mid-size ship will have 12 terminals. That same thread talks about other ship sizes but not if they have more terminals. I still submit that the pricing is entirely a function of what the market will bear, and not the cost of the service.
Those 12 terminals still need to talk to satellites. Only a certain number will be in reach, and if the ship is significantly out to sea, those satellites will need to pass data along to others to reach the ground. We know a densely populated land area can saturate the satellites overhead; it's part of the reason we don't use Starlink in, say, NYC. The same math applies to a thousand cruise ship passengers trying to…
Only recently (2025) has Starlink been documented to pass data between satellites and only for new ones. Cruise ships have had starlink for several years so the most common case will likely still be a single hop. Most cruises hug closely enough to the shore (within 100 miles) that a second hop isn't required.
It's not really a thousand passengers, it's just 12 terminals. Sure, those terminals are well oversubscribed vs a normal user terminal, but given the documented terminal-to-ground-station ratio (quite high), I'm pretty doubtful a cruise ship or 2 significantly impacts (or is impacted by) ground bandwidth. The density of users is just at the wrong scale for it to be significant.
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Unless you are on a cruise to work remotely and flee soaring rental prices.
There is no way that a cruise is cheaper.
I reckon it is not.
https://www.unilad.com/news/money/living-on-cruise-ship-cost...
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Often forbidden on cruise ships as it would be on flights for the same reasons (possible interference). In an airplane it's also impossible to make it work though those tiny windows of course. But on a cruise ship balcony it would probably be fine.
The rea$on that it i$ forbidden on crui$e $hip$ i$ not due to interference, whatever the company may claim.
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> A cruise ship has people with nothing to do wandering around The major point of a cruise is that there is constantly something to do. It's wall-to-wall entertainment, 24-hours a day. My 2-year-old was too excited to sleep on a Disney cruise, so we just walked around and found character photos at 10PM. She was too shy to take her picture, so I got my picture taken with her hiding her face on my shoulder. (FWIW: A cr…
Cruises sound and look like absolute nightmares. Physical manifestation of brainrot. Cyberpunk hell
After that, it's more about your attitude.
I used a travel router on my recent trip to Argentina and found it quite useful. It will be a permanent part of my travel kit. Some cooler uses: - streaming HDR video from closed MacBook running Amphetamine to Vision Pro via Moonlink - Having a working HomePod mini in the hotel room. The hotel internet did not like multiple devices off the router. It didn’t reject it outright but it throttled or nerfed it. Individual…
> travel router What's the difference between that and tethering off your phone?
It does not establish a private local area network (LAN) for connected devices to communicate with each other.
The travel router can use an iPhone for internet via tethering, though that iPhone won’t also be able to connect to the network created by the travel router.
The travel router is ~the same as a home WiFi router, but they come with configurations meant for dealing with common issues on the road.
Side note, I’m pretty sure you can send iMessage on a cruise ship when connected to their WiFi with no internet package because apple has a mesh network between unrelated devices and finds one with an internet endpoint to funnel messages in and out. I’m just basing this on usage experience and my hypothesis.
I for one would love to hear more about this sub rosa mesh network.
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I haven't been on a cruise in a long time, does anyone know if there are on-board IT people? Might be an interesting job if I ever get bored again.
I was on a somewhat fancy cruise a short while ago (Celebrity, fwiw) and they had a small live tv production crew that would film around the ship broadcast daily events and stuff on the ship's tv channel. The live shows also had a number of a/v tech crew people so there certainly are some IT folks employed on the ships while it embarks.