Is this possible? Cruise ship w/ WI-FI/ Mobile Phone/Skype

[gcianc]

wi-fi on the ship will require a logon so lets assume you can use your brower and authenticate your connection. Even though for the phone that is a big if.

once connected you might not even have enough data rate for skype. i've used internet on ships that are slower than 14.4 baud modems back in the day.

so even if you had a laptop and perfect wifi connection you might find the ship's internet pathetically unusable for plain text email.

there is a huge YMMV as it depends on the location, system, satellite, weather, etc.

worst case at port find a Starbucks or wi-fi location with good connection rate.

Originally Posted by TheDempster

I am going on a cruise in April, and the ship has WI-FI access on board. I will be subscribing to a week long internet rate with the cruise line (will use with my laptop). I also want access the on board WI-FI service using my HTC Touch Pro's WI-FI capability, and use Skype for making calls to land lines in the US.

Has anyone done this? Can you access the ships WI-FI via your Cell phones WI-FI connection? If you can,will you be able to use Skype via that connection?

If it is possible, it would be a great way to avoid all those heavy at sea phone calls.

Any one had experience with this?

Would love to here from anyone who has figured this out.