Cruise WiFi is a big expense. It usially takes you awhile to logon & from my experience I quickly blow through my allotted mbs pretty quickly. The last cruise I was on in October I took advantage of the free e-postcards that were offered at the computer station to let loved ones we were ok. At the different ports I would login to the open WiFi to read email. Believe me I was not the only one doing this. Also on this past cruise they had a ticker scrolling all the news of the day. Your room tv might also have a couple of news channels as well.
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From: Jim Saklad
Date:01/04/2014 4:38 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iPad] Cruise WIFI
> My DH and I will be going on a Windstar cruise out of St. Maarten second week of January. (Yippee!). The ship offers two WIFI packages 75MB/$50 and 160Mb/$100. My DH is something of a news addict who would miss his daily dose of NYT browsing. That and (maybe) email is the only thing we'd need.
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> Does anyone have experience with cruise ship WIFI? I'm not sure how the MBs would add up. Unfortunately we get a lot of unnecessary email every day which we can't filter out for this week trip. (Maybe 70 a day.) I guess we could shut off email entirely and just use our bytes for news surfing.
I just today downloaded the latest edition of MacWorld magazine for my iPad, over Wifi. 216 MB.
Quickly looking at the size of a mailbox and dividing by the number of messages in it gives me an average (for that forum) of 7.4 kB per message.
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