Brian K wrote:
>On 8/27/2007 7:07 PM Tom K exclaimed:
>> "Brian K" wrote in message
>> news:13d4veccvcub141@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>>> On 8/24/2007 11:39 PM Joan M. exclaimed:
>>>
>>>> We're pondering on our first cruise experience and would like to know the
>>>> following details:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is internet access (wi-fi or port access) free onboard? If not, what's
>>>> the charge?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The only time internet access was free was when I sailed on the inaugural
>>> cruise of HAL ms Zuiderdam. On all other occasions it's too expensive to
>>> bother. There are so many other activities on the ship that don't cost
>>> extra. If my cruise itinerary includes a Mexican port I head for an
>>> internet cafe they are cheap and the connections are fast. I type fairly
>>> quickly so I can send group emails back to the important people.
>>>
>>
>> Brian... why on earth would you keep the internet connection open while
>> typing?
>>
>> On the ship, write what you want using Word for free... then open the
>> connection, copy/paste into e-mail, and hit send. Uses less than 2 minutes
>> of actual internet time.
>>
>> You can even open all incoming e-mails one shot... then close the
>> connection. Then read the e-mails once your off line.
>>
>> --Tom
>>
>This is true if you are using dial-up. At the Internet Cafe's I've
>visited in Mexico, they have DSL. Once I even went somewhere with
>cable. These connections are *always on*. Besides you aren't timed by
>your internet connection. The clock starts ticking from the minute you
>sit down in front of the computer.
That's so not true. I don't know where you got that idea.
On the ship with my computer I log onto the ship computers or log on
with my laptop, and they only count the time until I log off again.
When it comes to the end of the time I've paid for it disconnects me.
Even with my own computer, I can't log on in my stateroom so the idea
that the connection is always on ... I wish.
I've been to internet cafes in the Bahamas and they time from the time
you get a connection until you log off of the connection. You can sit
there without being logged on. They DO time by the time of the
connection. I've had it cost $1/minute, and I've had it cost less
than the price of a phone call (esp using BATELCO) to the states -
maybe 40 cents/min but that's from memory and it may have been less.
When I've been in hotels where I have to pay for the internet
(Ireland), they did have a kind of connection where you paid for a
certain number of minutes in advance, and if you didn't use all the
minutes you bought at the time you paid, then you lost them. You
couldn't log on and use some of them and then log off and save for use
later. But it wasn't dial-up. It was wi-fi.
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