Epinz300 Posted November 21, 2022 #1 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Is there a way to see which ships have starlink as their internet provider? I just got off Freedom this past Friday and didn't get internet cause they were still showing VOOM however I heard that Liberty of the Seas (out of Ft Laud) has starlink on ship. Looking into taking a cruise early January with family but switching to Liberty so we could get internet and make it more of a work remote week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted November 21, 2022 #2 Share Posted November 21, 2022 7 minutes ago, Epinz300 said: Is there a way to see which ships have starlink as their internet provider? This is a crowdsourced table which has some updated info about the type of internet on each ship. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kZ1gCFtt1eiX1OWw9q-8tnEU5uQCWIjBwQt-w3t040s/edit All ships have VOOM and Freedom has had Starlink for several weeks. There not enough of a diff between O3B and Starlink to make much diff on Liberty for most use cases, including remote work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomTraveler Posted November 21, 2022 #3 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Remote key and starlink internet can be added to the symphony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolegirl01 Posted November 21, 2022 #4 Share Posted November 21, 2022 Freedom has Starlink. We were just on it back in August and we had the surf & stream internet and was using starlink. Pretty decent speeds and we even streamed Netflix. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted November 21, 2022 #5 Share Posted November 21, 2022 8 hours ago, nolegirl01 said: Pretty decent speeds and we even streamed Netflix. Don't count on that today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epinz300 Posted November 21, 2022 Author #6 Share Posted November 21, 2022 9 hours ago, nolegirl01 said: Freedom has Starlink. We were just on it back in August and we had the surf & stream internet and was using starlink. Pretty decent speeds and we even streamed Netflix. Do you think its fast enough to check emails in morning? Don't really need to stream it. Also, Go Noles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolegirl01 Posted November 21, 2022 #7 Share Posted November 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Epinz300 said: Do you think its fast enough to check emails in morning? Don't really need to stream it. Also, Go Noles! Oh yes, I think it's plenty 🙂 Go Noles 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomTraveler Posted November 22, 2022 #8 Share Posted November 22, 2022 We streamed a college football game on Saturday with no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniChunks Posted November 22, 2022 #9 Share Posted November 22, 2022 On 11/21/2022 at 6:28 AM, Biker19 said: Don't count on that today. We were on Freedom last week and were able to livestream our daughter's high school volleyball game in 4k in playmakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted November 22, 2022 #10 Share Posted November 22, 2022 (edited) 14 minutes ago, MiniChunks said: We were on Freedom last week and were able to livestream our daughter's high school volleyball game in 4k in playmakers. Did you do a speed test? It was very unlikely as the poster listed a few months ago. The "normal" 4 Mbps limit on most ships is enough to stream like that. Most apps/browser adjust to whatever BW is available and display that - on small screens, like phones/tablets, it's probably difficult to see the diff. Edited November 22, 2022 by Biker19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniChunks Posted November 22, 2022 #11 Share Posted November 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Biker19 said: Did you do a speed test? It was very unlikely as the poster listed a few months ago. The "normal" 4 Mbps limit on most ships is enough to stream like that. Most apps/browser adjust to whatever BW is available and display that - on small screens, like phones/tablets, it's probably difficult to see the diff. I did not, but my comment was more addressing the streaming Netflix part of the comment you had quoted. I was on Allure back in April and could barely load a webpage, so whatever they are doing on Freedom is considerably better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted November 22, 2022 #12 Share Posted November 22, 2022 18 minutes ago, MiniChunks said: I was on Allure back in April and could barely load a webpage, so whatever they are doing on Freedom is considerably better. The thing is, Starlink won't fix network issues on the ship (like poor reception in your cabin), weather or other caused outages, increase the download speed - the main thing Starlink will do is considerably lower latency (which many will perceive as a performance increase). On a properly working O3B equipped Allure, you should have been able to stream the same way you did on Freedom - it's very unlikely Starlink will fix other issues which occur with O3B or legacy sat internet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeySailor Posted December 3, 2022 #13 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Starlink on Symphony in Miami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted December 3, 2022 #14 Share Posted December 3, 2022 1 minute ago, PompeySailor said: Starlink on Symphony in Miami Amazing ping rate for sat service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2flacruisers Posted December 3, 2022 #15 Share Posted December 3, 2022 We just returned from being on the Liberty...They used Starlink and I never had a problem with internet..always had a great connection... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharktums Posted December 3, 2022 #16 Share Posted December 3, 2022 On Adventure right now and saw this… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsai3s Posted December 3, 2022 #17 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Starlink on Navigator now. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATSEAMYLIFE Posted December 3, 2022 #18 Share Posted December 3, 2022 6 hours ago, PompeySailor said: Starlink on Symphony in Miami Still double the speed we got on Wonder last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUZorba Posted December 3, 2022 #19 Share Posted December 3, 2022 On 11/21/2022 at 5:28 AM, Biker19 said: Don't count on that today. Yeah, as more people get on Star Link the more the speed drops. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/starlink-speeds-in-us-dropped-from-105mbps-to-53mbps-in-the-past-year/ It was pretty disappointing on Allure last week. Lots of connectivity issues and Wifi calling only worked once. I only did a speed test a few times and the speed was around 3.5 mbps with a ping between 500-900ms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted December 4, 2022 #20 Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) 33 minutes ago, OSUZorba said: I only did a speed test a few times and the speed was around 3.5 mbps with a ping between 500-900ms. That ping is certainly not normal. The loss of speed with more customers on Starlink might not affect things on ships much where most are limited to about 4 Mbps. Edited December 4, 2022 by Biker19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUZorba Posted December 4, 2022 #21 Share Posted December 4, 2022 15 hours ago, Biker19 said: That ping is certainly not normal. The loss of speed with more customers on Starlink might not affect things on ships much where most are limited to about 4 Mbps. It might impact the total bandwidth available to the ship, especially in an area where multiple ships are being serviced by the same satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeySailor Posted December 6, 2022 #22 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Todays test from St Maarten 5 Ships docked with Symphony MSC, Celebrity, Azamara and one other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted December 6, 2022 #23 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Sailing Wonder Friday with the media cruise. Free internet for everyone. But I'm guessing under 3000 pax I'll do speedchecks to see if they throttle it down. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikew0805 Posted December 6, 2022 #24 Share Posted December 6, 2022 1 hour ago, John&LaLa said: Sailing Wonder Friday with the media cruise. Free internet for everyone. But I'm guessing under 3000 pax I'll do speedchecks to see if they throttle it down. Wonder speed was horrible on the Nov 13 cruise. It was not Starlink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screenname2004 Posted December 6, 2022 #25 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Anyone knows where they put the Starlink antennas on the Symphony? Speed was not impressed yesterday on the way to St. Maarten. Now that we are docked, the speed seems to be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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