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From the perspective of someone who does wifi for a living, they've made a mistake on Radiance. All the access points on the 2.4GHZ band are using channel 6 leaving channels 1 and 11 unused. That's going to create a very congested RF spectrum with a lot of interference. The 5GHz band is configured better. The 5GHz band doesn't penetrate steel walls very well at all so this may explain why the user experience is better in open public areas where guests devices are more likely to connect to the 5GHz radios.
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Day Two - Sea Day Up early having crashed early, we find ourselves well into the Gulf. A lot has been said with people having issues connecting or staying connected to Voom. It's become enough of a problem that they now have a video that cycles in between the Wash Your Hands jingle and other such videos on the ship TV channel. It goes into length about how to disable these features that Apple and Google have added to their OS. The CD also mentioned it during his welcome aboard video. Starlink speeds have been a little variable this morning at an early hour when few reasonable people should be up. I'm in my cabin I had the door closed. Let's take a look at the wifi on Radiance. 20 MHz channels so we won't ever get fantastic connection rates. I am connected to the ship's access point with a 6 Mbps down and 39 Mbps "physical" connection. That's not so great. Let's try the shoe in the door trick. Cabin doors are all metal and if you wanted to block wifi signals the best way to do that would be to place a piece steel between you and the access point. A piece of steel like a cabin door. By propping the door open a little, some signal is allowed to leak into the cabin. With my door propped open I am now getting a PHY rate of 52 Mbps down and 117 Mbps up. For a 20 Mhz channel that isn't terrible in the real world. Despite this boost in wifi strength, Starlink is still be throttled by the ship. So it doesn't do a lot except make for a more stable user experience. My pictures for example are uploading a bit faster.
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After dinner I walked around attempting to walk off the Samba effect. The helipad was open and with only my phone with me and no tripod there wasn't a lot I could capture. There was a light sea mist in the air and the horizon was still of light pollution from Texas so it wasn't great conditions for astrophotography but it was a nice evening otherwise and there was a sky full of stars above the ship. At one point a guest with a strong LED flashlight appeared and started shining their light all over. This had to irritate the bridge who need to keep their night vision intact, especially in the northern Gulf with lots of small boat traffic. I'm hoping they don't close the helipad at night as a result. It's the darkest part of the ship 🙂 I'll hop to try again with my good camera and a tripod.
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Is conch safe to eat a 2023 answer
twangster replied to Annicruise2014's topic in Ask a Cruise Question
Had some in a land restaurant this week. Hope it's safe.