Bteam Posted February 28, 2023 #1 Share Posted February 28, 2023 The subject says it all. 🙂 We will be in the April 22nd sailing from Port Carnival to Amsterdam transatlantic on jewel of the seas. Was wondering if the star link (if the ship has it operational ) has coverage for the whole cruise? Thanks in advance! Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long4acruise Posted February 28, 2023 #2 Share Posted February 28, 2023 We did the EB transatlantic (Miami- Amsterdam) May 2022 and the internet was good. Honestly don't remember if she had Starlink then, but we had great reception. I used my phone quite often as lots of friends were joining us in Amsterdam for the following chartered sailing and we were coordinating lots of "stuff". Hope service is great for you in Apr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolkmit Posted February 28, 2023 #3 Share Posted February 28, 2023 I'm about 95% sure there haven't been any crossings on Royal ships with Starlink yet. Not with passengers on board anyways. None of the ships that crossed last fall had Starlink prior to doing so. Symphony does a crossing in a couple weeks, and I believe has Starlink; so bumping this post mid-March might get you some answers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseboy89130 Posted February 28, 2023 #4 Share Posted February 28, 2023 29 minutes ago, Tolkmit said: I'm about 95% sure there haven't been any crossings on Royal ships with Starlink yet. Not with passengers on board anyways. None of the ships that crossed last fall had Starlink prior to doing so. Symphony does a crossing in a couple weeks, and I believe has Starlink; so bumping this post mid-March might get you some answers. Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomTraveler Posted February 28, 2023 #5 Share Posted February 28, 2023 4 hours ago, Tolkmit said: I'm about 95% sure there haven't been any crossings on Royal ships with Starlink yet. Not with passengers on board anyways. None of the ships that crossed last fall had Starlink prior to doing so. Symphony does a crossing in a couple weeks, and I believe has Starlink; so bumping this post mid-March might get you some answers. Symphony definitely has starlink, I used it in November and it worked great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare twangster Posted February 28, 2023 #6 Share Posted February 28, 2023 Starlink very recently updated their maritime coverage map to indicate global coverage. Despite that Starlink isn't finished. User experience is not going to be consistent for some time yet. Please return after your TA and post your experience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseboy89130 Posted February 28, 2023 #7 Share Posted February 28, 2023 52 minutes ago, twangster said: Starlink very recently updated their maritime coverage map to indicate global coverage. Despite that Starlink isn't finished. User experience is not going to be consistent for some time yet. Please return after your TA and post your experience. From what I have researched they might have problems with the middle of the Atlantic as they are behind schedule and the updated map is just smoke and mirrors as with most of Musk's projects 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taglovestocruise Posted February 28, 2023 #8 Share Posted February 28, 2023 11 hours ago, cruiseboy89130 said: From what I have researched they might have problems with the middle of the Atlantic as they are behind schedule and the updated map is just smoke and mirrors as with most of Musk's projects 🙄 But it will still put a few billion in his pocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare twangster Posted February 28, 2023 #9 Share Posted February 28, 2023 12 hours ago, cruiseboy89130 said: From what I have researched they might have problems with the middle of the Atlantic as they are behind schedule and the updated map is just smoke and mirrors as with most of Musk's projects 🙄 Most definitely. It will be all of a year before it gets closer to where it should be globally on the water. Of course if Starship starts flying that will help a lot. It can lift more and into a higher orbit so they get into service faster. Starship is the key to the needed bump in maritime coverage and performance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare BirdTravels Posted February 28, 2023 #10 Share Posted February 28, 2023 15 hours ago, ARandomTraveler said: Symphony definitely has starlink, I used it in November and it worked great!! Starlink will work great for a while. I give it a year. But as more and more people start using it (e.g., all of those cruise lines signing up), all of that data has to move from the satellite constellation to the real internet on land. That point where Musk meets Al Gore, the interfaces from Starlink to the real internet, will be come the choke points on the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njkruzer Posted March 1, 2023 #11 Share Posted March 1, 2023 22 hours ago, long4acruise said: We did the EB transatlantic (Miami- Amsterdam) May 2022 and the internet was good. Honestly don't remember if she had Starlink then, but we had great reception. I used my phone quite often as lots of friends were joining us in Amsterdam for the following chartered sailing and we were coordinating lots of "stuff". Hope service is great for you in Apr! It wasn't Starlimk. Not sure what crossing you were on but on our May Jewel crossing after we made the left turn to Bermuda, unplanned, internet went downhill for us. Probably didn't realign with a new satellite when we changed course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taglovestocruise Posted March 1, 2023 #12 Share Posted March 1, 2023 2 hours ago, twangster said: Most definitely. It will be all of a year before it gets closer to where it should be globally on the water. Of course if Starship starts flying that will help a lot. It can lift more and into a higher orbit so they get into service faster. Starship is the key to the needed bump in maritime coverage and performance. Space X just started launching V2 into low orbit. They are 10x faster and hold 4x the data, they are a temporary fix and will be brought down when Starship starts regular flights. 21 satellites per launch with a near term goal of 210 in super low orbit by June 2023. FAA needs to fast track Starship launch permits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare twangster Posted March 1, 2023 #13 Share Posted March 1, 2023 32 minutes ago, taglovestocruise said: Space X just started launching V2 into low orbit. They are 10x faster and hold 4x the data, they are a temporary fix and will be brought down when Starship starts regular flights. 21 satellites per launch with a near term goal of 210 in super low orbit by June 2023. FAA needs to fast track Starship launch permits. They started launching v2 mini as a stop gap realizing that Starship in regular and routine service is still a while away. The full size v2 can't fit on Falcon 9. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long4acruise Posted March 1, 2023 #14 Share Posted March 1, 2023 13 hours ago, njkruzer said: It wasn't Starlimk. Not sure what crossing you were on but on our May Jewel crossing after we made the left turn to Bermuda, unplanned, internet went downhill for us. Probably didn't realign with a new satellite when we changed course. We were on the Jewel TA (Apr 29-May 13) and logged in using our phones and my tablet. Surprisingly we had great connections as I did several Zoom meetings and a memorial service online! We were in a GS right next to the RS - midship. The 2nd leg (a music charter) of the B2B was great for most of us also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njkruzer Posted March 1, 2023 #15 Share Posted March 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, long4acruise said: We were on the Jewel TA (Apr 29-May 13) and logged in using our phones and my tablet. Surprisingly we had great connections as I did several Zoom meetings and a memorial service online! We were in a GS right next to the RS - midship. The 2nd leg (a music charter) of the B2B was great for most of us also. You were lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taglovestocruise Posted March 1, 2023 #16 Share Posted March 1, 2023 19 hours ago, twangster said: They started launching v2 mini as a stop gap realizing that Starship in regular and routine service is still a while away. The full size v2 can't fit on Falcon 9. Good catch, I forgot to say mini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bteam Posted March 8, 2023 Author #17 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Thanks folks for the feedback. I’d hate to purchase the full cruise and find out that once yes are out to sea it stops working or gets worst. I suspect they won’t give me credit or refund if it wasn’t working well. I noticed that the price went up another $40 for the cruise since I waited. I better either buy it and deal with what it is or forget it. take care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Teeara Posted March 8, 2023 #18 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Not sure what we had on Wonder for the Fall 2022 WB TA, but it was fantastic. There were a few dropped signals at times, but we always got it back fast. We were very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celly Posted March 8, 2023 #19 Share Posted March 8, 2023 We have been on Symphony for a few weeks now and internet connection has been spotty, unreliable and slow more than often. Do not see any improvement over the old Voom. Tomorrow we will start the Transatlantic. Do not feel very confident after the past weeks experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiseboy89130 Posted March 8, 2023 #20 Share Posted March 8, 2023 3 hours ago, Teeara said: Not sure what we had on Wonder for the Fall 2022 WB TA, but it was fantastic. There were a few dropped signals at times, but we always got it back fast. We were very happy. That was not starlink! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Teeara Posted March 8, 2023 #21 Share Posted March 8, 2023 8 minutes ago, cruiseboy89130 said: That was not starlink! Then Starlink will be awesome. Again, whatever we had it was fantastic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretzlaff Posted March 14, 2023 #22 Share Posted March 14, 2023 (edited) We are on the Symphony now and about half way across the Atlantic. starlink is not good. Near Florida it seemed ok, but it is almost unusable now. speedtest says a latency of 179, download 0.38 (with dips to 0.00 during the test), and uploads of 2.86. It took 5 seconds to load cruisecritic after twice not finding the server. i was really looking forward to it, but at best it has only been as good as the old system and now seems worse. Edited March 14, 2023 by pretzlaff 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resetjet Posted March 14, 2023 #23 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Just because starlink is on the ship, does not mean they have the satellites overhead yet. Especially in an ocean. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretzlaff Posted March 14, 2023 #24 Share Posted March 14, 2023 Things have improved this morning. I notice on speed test that we are now bouncing to a server in Madrid, no longer Miami. ping is 181, down is 9.00, up is 3.00. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SE fla Posted March 14, 2023 #25 Share Posted March 14, 2023 They have always changed satellites mid way. They do it in the middle of the night as not to disrupt everyone using the Wi-Fi during prim time hours. Hopefully for the symphony that does the trick for you all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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