Tep and/or mifi?

Has anyone used Tep or another mifi on a Princess Alaska Cruise? We use Tep all over Europe for a secure wifi. With mifi no other wifi system is necessary. Has anyone had experience with this on a cruise ship?

Since they both use cell data, they will use the ships cell system and you will pay an arm leg and neck..

In port, they will work well in most cases.

Yes lots and lots of $$$. :(

Has anyone used Tep or another mifi on a Princess Alaska Cruise? We use Tep all over Europe for a secure wifi. With mifi no other wifi system is necessary. Has anyone had experience with this on a cruise ship?

Properly designed, a wifi system only has three channels it can use. Properly designed, there'll be a LOT of wifi access points around the ship. Although it's a shared spectrum and the ship can't demand that you turn it off, you WILL be competing against the ship's wifi system which likely has better antennas and would drive the rest of your gear crazy with interference.

If you're in port, I can see letting the mifi do its thing since you can connect to terrestrial towers. If you're at sea, the only thing you're gaining is the ability to aggregate devices onto one pool of minutes, but likely competing at a disadvantage with all of the other passengers trying to use the ship's internet (the wifi system will probably treat your mifi as one device, and force it to share bandwidth with others as though you're one device, not several.

I wouldn't recommend it on the ship.

Definitely not cost effective or performance efficient to use mifi on the ship.