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You're paying hundreds to thousands of dollars to go on a cruise and you want to watch Netflix?
I would not rely on it, it's probably expensive or not fast enough. I would just bring a bunch of predownloaded stuff on a hard drive.
Expensive and slow for sure. It actually annoyed me that they couldn't provide a better service. Is sat net really that bad or are cruise ships just cheap?
Yes but only at night before bed to catch up on some shows.
Depends on the sat type. The MEO stuff isn't bad; it's still over a hundred milliseconds each way, but it's workable. It's the older GEO sats that are especially bad, since GEO is so far out there.Sat bandwidth is very expensive and high latency.
I never understood the fascination with watching movies when you're supposed to be on vacation. Especially on a cruise.
Anyhow, if you insist on having movies with you, the best way is to pick up a Sandisk wireless connect - https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/connect-wireless-stick.
Basically what you do is put your movies and music (all popular types recognized) on this just like a flash drive. Use their app to set up SSID and security and connect your devices to its wifi network. You can keep the drive in your pocket and as long as your mobile device is within range you can stream your movies off it. Provides convenience of a streaming service without internet dependency. You'll look like a typical geek that can't get away from tech, of course but we already know who you are.
While it is true that older InmarSat-B was too slow for this type of service, O3B and even LEOSATs are becoming readily available for maritime backhauls delivering gigabit speeds and sub 100ms latency. But you will have to pay for it!
Err why not juts copy the movies to the internal storage or microsd of the tablet?
ATOT basement dwelling virgins sharing movies? Surely you jest!Sharing amongst devices is much better.
The drive is a file server, wifi access point with DHCP server in one. I'm sure they can be hacked to do other things as well.
Not all devices have removable storage OR the capacity of a dedicated solution.
"Catch up on Netflix" does not compute.
I never understood the fascination with watching movies when you're supposed to be on vacation. Especially on a cruise.
It's like 56k, there's a data cap and it's freaking expensive.