On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 02:14:59 -0800, RayC
wrote:

Most ships have wi-fi now and most of them have it in your cabin.
It is not as slow as it was in the past although there are
occasional outages. If you buy by the minute it is often as much
as 75cents a minute. The more you buy, the less it is a minute.

Since I am retired, I do like to browse and also want to get
information about the places where I am. About half the time I
am traveling with a grandchild and want to send the parents a
report and photos that we take and also the grandchild wants to
write. On some ships you can download email, log off and then
answer, log back on and send the email. But that isn't so on all
of them

Sometimes the computers in the computer area don't work well and
many ships no longer have a computer person to help you get
connected.

One of the problems with Disney is that if you do not bring your
own computer, there is no computer area - you can borrow a
computer, but you can't write email off line on it because that
is the way it is configured.



On 3/2/2014 9:43 AM, wrote:
I agree totally not worth it. The internet is just not that important.
And if you think so then you need help. Anyone that uses thier cell
phone on a cruise ship needs help. Anyone that uses a cell phone in a
car needs help.
You are supossed to be on a vacation. away from the pointless cares
that are the internet. Man I swear to god if the world ended tomorrow
there would still be people complaining that thier cell phone did not
work or that thier internet connection just would not connect


For those people that just sit there and browse the net, it is a
terrific waste of money ... both for the internet charge and the cruise
itself. I buy the minimum size time pack so that I can send and receive
email. I log on, download the mail and then log off. Then I can read
and chose which ones I need to respond to. Then log in, send replies
and download new ones. This is the only way I can take longer cruises.