Great Article About Disney Wonder Experience

We never had problems with the Internet last September, in fact didn't use it all up by the end of the cruise!

Confused about the tipping - saying most lines now 'ban' tipping??????
 
insureman said:
Sounds like another shady cruise line vendor. Kind of reminds me of the art auction companies that have been used in the past.
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Yes I have found the Internet fast but it has used the MB fast so agree with those comments made, I was photo streaming but it still felt it was going fast.
 
I also felt like the internet was getting used up faster than I expected, but I eventually realized that background app updates hadn't been turned off on my iPad. Each app that updates can be many megabytes. I wonder if he really turned off all the background stuff; it's easy to miss something, especially with all the cloud syncing and backup and so forth.
 
dmunsil said:
I also felt like the internet was getting used up faster than I expected, but I eventually realized that background app updates hadn't been turned off on my iPad. Each app that updates can be many megabytes. I wonder if he really turned off all the background stuff; it's easy to miss something, especially with all the cloud syncing and backup and so forth.
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I switched off my background apps but it was going far faster than we expected in our room.
 
Anyone have experience with a laptop (chromebook specifically.). DH has to teach classes while on vacation in Alaska so he'll have to use the internet, but $89/day is something I'd need to plan for. He will need to go on every day for 30-60 min. Thoughts?
 
Disneyteachers said:
Anyone have experience with a laptop (chromebook specifically.). DH has to teach classes while on vacation in Alaska so he'll have to use the internet, but $89/day is something I'd need to plan for. He will need to go on every day for 30-60 min. Thoughts?
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We went to Alaska on the Wonder, three of us had an Internet package we had a connection 24/7 bar going up inside Tracy Arm, the high sides blocked any signal, at the top we had reception restored.

So it was good, but the data went fast, we got through five of the larger packages in a week. Photos was the worst,new didn't stream anything.
 
Bocatraveler are you the author of the article? Just noticing you just joined the boards yesterday and this is your only post.
 
FWIW, on our last cruise (Wonder to Alaska) we used 1 large and 1 medium paid package over 7 days, and we were using a laptop every day for work, plus ipads and phones. So you can use less than a gig a day. But boy is it hard to turn off every background data service. You have to, just offhand:

- Suspend Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud if on a Mac, updates for your anti-virus, updates for Flash, Java, Google Chrome, Firefox, and any other auto-updating apps you have
- Turn off automatic email downloading if you use an email app rather than webmail
- On iPad & iPhone, turn off iCloud sync (both directions), turn off automatic synchronization of everything (apps, music, updates, etc.)

Even then I don't think you would be turning everything off. On the laptop, there were still background processes moving data around, and I used some debugging tools to figure out a few of them, but several were services I couldn't find any clean way to turn off, so ultimately I signed in whenever I wanted to use the computer and signed out when I was done, but even then while I was working there was a fair amount of data transfer.

On the Windows Phone, there's a global "restrict background data" feature you can use when on a metered connection. That was helpful. They could use that feature on laptops and iOS devices. But of course there are very few situations where wifi is metered like it is on a cruise, so I understand that it's a low priority.

The bottom line is, I'm sure the person who wrote the story about the Wonder believed that he turned off all background data, but he just may have missed one or two apps or background services that happened to pick that time to download a major update. Any one service can use a massive amount of bandwidth, and it takes a bunch of debugging and analysis to track down what's using the data.

And of course it's always possible that the data provider is cooking the books. I'm just saying Occam's razor suggests otherwise. If Disney found out their network provider was cheating guests, being dropped like a hot potato would be the least of their worries.
 
I live in Boca and have never heard of this "news blog" website until today. Me thinks somebody is trying to drive more traffic to their website, but I'm cynical like that.
 
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