Divetripnow Posted October 21, 2022 #1 Share Posted October 21, 2022 I’m taking a cruise in December on the Riviera, will I be able to work from my laptop? First cruise since Covid. Prior cruise had poor, slow internet. But was told Oceana did an update? any help appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ColeThornton Posted October 21, 2022 #2 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Recommend asking on the forum for Oceania. Here is the link for you: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/29-oceania-cruises/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divetripnow Posted October 21, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Hi, thanks for your direction but the link you posted is closed. I’ve tried asking about the internet connection every where. Can’t seem to find out . Yikes, I’m so frustrated. Thanks again for trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted October 21, 2022 #4 Share Posted October 21, 2022 7 minutes ago, Divetripnow said: Hi, thanks for your direction but the link you posted is closed. I’ve tried asking about the internet connection every where. Can’t seem to find out . Yikes, I’m so frustrated. Thanks again for trying. The link @ColeThornton provided works fine for me. It is the specific board for Oceania cruise line. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LHT28 Posted October 21, 2022 #5 Share Posted October 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Divetripnow said: I’m taking a cruise in December on the Riviera, will I be able to work from my laptop? First cruise since Covid. Prior cruise had poor, slow internet. But was told Oceana did an update? any help appreciated! You might get lucky if you are working when everyone is in bed I would not plan on the speed being any better 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divetripnow Posted October 21, 2022 Author #6 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Thank you so much for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philob Posted October 21, 2022 #7 Share Posted October 21, 2022 21 minutes ago, LHT28 said: You might get lucky if you are working when everyone is in bed I would not plan on the speed being any better The IT manager on an NCL ship told me that ships ops have priority on the sat link, pax gets whatever bandwidth is left over. Fastest is speed you'll get is when everyone's in bed. The slowest is the last night when the hotel is up-linking your bill to corporate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted October 22, 2022 #8 Share Posted October 22, 2022 15 hours ago, Philob said: The IT manager on an NCL ship told me that ships ops have priority on the sat link, pax gets whatever bandwidth is left over. Fastest is speed you'll get is when everyone's in bed. The slowest is the last night when the hotel is up-linking your bill to corporate. And the last day when everyone is trying to check in for their flights. EM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Hlitner Posted October 23, 2022 #9 Share Posted October 23, 2022 I am going to give a generic (and accurate) reply to the OP. The reality is that, at best, Internet at sea is unreliable in terms of both speed and even working at all! If you must have Internet for work than you might want to consider another type of vacation. RCI has recently been pioneering some major Internet improvements (spurred by the utilization of Elon Musk's Skylink system) and perhaps this means that within a few short years we will finally see reliable Internet on ships. Just in the past year we were on a cruise (Enchanted Princess) where the Internet was down for two days. Also keep in mind that Internet at sea is completely dependent on satellite connections. Bad atmospherics, or a storm, can knock out the Internet for hours or days. Hank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashland Posted October 24, 2022 #10 Share Posted October 24, 2022 10 hours ago, Hlitner said: I am going to give a generic (and accurate) reply to the OP. The reality is that, at best, Internet at sea is unreliable in terms of both speed and even working at all! If you must have Internet for work than you might want to consider another type of vacation. RCI has recently been pioneering some major Internet improvements (spurred by the utilization of Elon Musk's Skylink system) and perhaps this means that within a few short years we will finally see reliable Internet on ships. Just in the past year we were on a cruise (Enchanted Princess) where the Internet was down for two days. Also keep in mind that Internet at sea is completely dependent on satellite connections. Bad atmospherics, or a storm, can knock out the Internet for hours or days. Hank Agree....We had numerous "no satellite connection" on some of our cruises this year (some lasting a day) in areas where we could understand it but in others it was a surprise. You just never know. I believe some RCI ships have started installing the Skylink...and have heard that it may be available sooner than expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divetripnow Posted October 24, 2022 Author #11 Share Posted October 24, 2022 13 hours ago, Ashland said: Agree....We had numerous "no satellite connection" on some of our cruises this year (some lasting a day) in areas where we could understand it but in others it was a surprise. You just never know. I believe some RCI ships have started installing the Skylink...and have heard that it may be available sooner than expected. Thank you so very much Hank and Ashland, for taking the time to answer my work (internet) questions. We’ve only sailed on Oceania , but maybe looking into RCI. My Best Lisa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashland Posted October 25, 2022 #12 Share Posted October 25, 2022 11 hours ago, Divetripnow said: Thank you so very much Hank and Ashland, for taking the time to answer my work (internet) questions. We’ve only sailed on Oceania , but maybe looking into RCI. My Best Lisa You're so very welcome. You might check with the particular RCI ship you'll be cruising on as I believe a few have already started using Skylink. Best of luck to you and enjoy cruising with RCI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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