Internet Access on DCL

[pgesler]

2 questions:

Can someone bring a Laptop to where the internet computers are and access the internet thru the laptop?

If I take a picture on a digital camera - can I email the picture while still on board the ship?

 

[Dave_from_Marietta]

No, sorry. You cannot hook your laptop up to the Internet connection in the Internet Café. If you need to check your corporate email while you're on your cruise, make sure your company has an option where you can view it through a web browser. Or set up an option in Outlook where your corporate email gets forwarded to a Hotmail account so you can read it through a web browser.

As for emailing photos, if you can download from your camera to your laptop and then can upload from your laptop to floppy disk, the manager of the Internet Café <b><i>may</i></b> be willing to assist you in uploading from your floppy disk to web-based email.

 

[pgesler]

Thanks for the answer!

That was just what I was looking for.

 

[dpuck1998]

Another option would be to connect a card reader to the
computer in the internet cafe. I don't know what type of
computers they have, but a small USB card reader should
be able to hook to just about any computer. Unless the
internet cafe computer are just "internet terminal" which
would render the floppy idea useless also.

 

[Dave_from_Marietta]

There are no USB ports or any other kind of port available for use, unfortunately. As for the floppy disks, they are available only when the Internet Café manager unlocks the cabinet in which the individual CPU is stored.

 

[dpuck1998]

So if they will unlock it for use of the floppy can they not unlock it for use of the USB port? I don't know about other but my camera will not hold photos on a floppy since each picture is over the 1.4 meg size.

 

[Dave_from_Marietta]

The floppy drive is on the front of the cabinet. Ports are on the back of the cabinet. Accessing the ports would require pulling out the unit. They're doing you a favor simply by opening the cabinet and allowing you access to the drive that's on the front of the cabinet. You're pushing their good graces by asking them for more than that. I would expect they would refuse based on hardware security regulations.

 

[dpuck1998]

That seems logical. I'm sure that would open up a big can of worms that they might best keep shut. Too bad, I guess I'll wait until my return to e-mail photos....or maybe I could beam them from my IPAQ....hmm...infarred on the PC????hmmm

 

[MBFergie]

I too am trying to figure out a way to download my pics from my camera to free up memory. I am searching ports to find internet cafes...i found this on st. maarten. there is also an internet cafe write when you get off the ship too i heard. just haven't found what one it is. was thinking if you have everything set on lap top then you can walk into internet cafe, hook up and shoot it out quickly. just an idea.

Internet access: Regardless of whether you use an online service (such as AOL or MSN), or an Internet Service Provider (ISP) such as Earthlink, you can access your email in St. Maarten, easily, at reasonable speed, and WITHOUT international surcharges. Just contact Network IDL / Megatropic, St. Maarten's first (and easily its best) Internet Service Provider. Two alternatives: use their cybercafe (Cybernations) located opposite the entrance to Simpson Bay Marina in Simpson Bay, or have them sign up your laptop for easy dialup service on the island. In 20 minutes you'll be set to go at a low cost of $15 a week with unlimited hours (tell them you heard about them here or you'll pay more). Write to them at: sales@megatropic.com. (Their website: http://www.megatropic.com).

 

[MBFergie]

By far the wildest exterior for an internet café belongs to Café Dot Com at the head of Philipsburg (that would be the eastern end near the cruise ship dock). Their rates are $1 to log on and 20 cents per minute thereafter. Like most of these places, they do faxes, copies, and long distance calls. No website, so tell them to get one on SXM-Info.com.

The sxm-info.com web site is great....all about st. maarten.

 

[Jeanny]

we bring our laptop with us on vacation and will bring it on the cruise too... even though I know I can't connect to the internet.... we use it to download our digital camera...

plus we bring a few DVD's for the plane rides/waiting at the airport..... and if we can't find anything to watch on TV at night... although I believe I may crash instead of watching DVD's. LOL


Jeanny