StopTheWorld Posted Saturday at 04:43 PM #1 Share Posted Saturday at 04:43 PM Has anyone ever used a travel router in their cabin to extend wifi to another device? We have an upcoming sailing on Arcadia and wondering if it’s possible to use our travel router for this purpose. If you have used one, could you let me know how you did this please? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare david63 Posted Saturday at 07:57 PM #2 Share Posted Saturday at 07:57 PM I have used one in the past and basically you connect to wi-fi on your router and then on another device you log into your account. Once done all other devices can connect. That may not be the proceedure with your router as they are all different. The limitation is that you can only use the internet when in your cabin. There is another option and that is to use your smartphone if you have one. Connect to wi-fi on your phone and log into your account. Then set up your phone as a hotspot (you can do this before joining the ship) then other devices connect to the hotspot. Also means that as long as the other devices are with range of your phone anywhere on the ship they will have wi-fi access. This works perfectly with Starlink and is almost as fast as home broadband and is far simpler, and quicker, to set up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a1psx Posted Sunday at 01:40 PM #3 Share Posted Sunday at 01:40 PM The iPhone disconnects from wifi once it's being used as a hotspot as it's wants to be a hotspot for your mobile service instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare david63 Posted Sunday at 01:45 PM #4 Share Posted Sunday at 01:45 PM 2 minutes ago, a1psx said: The iPhone disconnects from wifi once it's being used as a hotspot as it's wants to be a hotspot for your mobile service instead Android doesn't - or at least my Samsung doesn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare TigerB Posted Sunday at 02:50 PM #5 Share Posted Sunday at 02:50 PM 1 hour ago, david63 said: Android doesn't - or at least my Samsung doesn't That's interesting! I always thought that the host phone had to be connected to mobile data. Every day is a school day! 👍🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StopTheWorld Posted Sunday at 03:07 PM Author #6 Share Posted Sunday at 03:07 PM Thanks for the help. As @david63 has said, an iPhone can’t “share” WiFi when being used as hotspot, but an android phone can. Luckily my DH and I have one of each, so we’ll connect the android to the ship’s wifi and the iPhone can connect to it. We tried this out at home last night and worked fine. The iPhone was disconnected from wifi and mobile data, and then connected to the android hotspot no problem. We’ll take the router with us to try out in the cabin to connect our laptop to. If it doesn’t connect it’s no big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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