Wireless Internet - Photo Upload?

[Buddy Bear]

I know that the Internet Cafe computers are locked down so you can't access a floppy drive or USB port so uploading photos to a website isn't possible.

Since you use your own computer for the wireless network I was wondering if DCL employed any security to stop you from uploading photos.

The first Double Dip Live report has been great, but having photos to go with the postings would be great.

 

[Verandah Man]

I know that the Internet Cafe computers are locked down so you can't access a floppy drive or USB port so uploading photos to a website isn't possible.

Since you use your own computer for the wireless network I was wondering if DCL employed any security to stop you from uploading photos.

The first Double Dip Live report has been great, but having photos to go with the postings would be great.

I uploaded and posted many "live" photos on my blog during our May 13th cruise using my laptop.

 

[Buddy Bear]

Thanks Andy. I figured that was the case, but I wanted someone to confirm

Looks like you and I are going to posting a lot photos for our upcoming Double Dip.

 

[niccic]

Verandah Man how well did the wireless internet work? was it slow? did you keep losig signal? i have 5 dogs and a house sitter and i want to check in every day, wiht out paying $6.95 a minute. Me and my husband are going back and forth if we should bring our laptop?

 

[Verandah Man]

Verandah Man how well did the wireless internet work? was it slow? did you keep losig signal? i have 5 dogs and a house sitter and i want to check in every day, wiht out paying $6.95 a minute. Me and my husband are going back and forth if we should bring our laptop?

The service was a bit slow at times, but I never lost a signal while I was on. I was mainly using the wireless to add photos with my blog report. I averaged about 20 minutes with each blog report I made, except the blog report when I added 12 photos, that time I was online about 40 minutes.

 

[AhoyCaptainMickey]

signal works great, we choose to resize the photos on the laptop prior to the update, things worked much faster, we used the laptop for downloading the 100's of photos we took and started the camera memory fresh each day. tip, double check to ensure you "log off" properly...got caught once still logged in eating minutes when thought we were logg out.

 

[Kissimmee]

I know that the Internet Cafe computers are locked down so you can't access a floppy drive or USB port so uploading photos to a website isn't possible.

Since you use your own computer for the wireless network I was wondering if DCL employed any security to stop you from uploading photos.

The first Double Dip Live report has been great, but having photos to go with the postings would be great.

Uploading is not the strength of the onboard network. If you google MTMSAT you can get a better understanding of the technology Disney uses.

Their brochure says Down-links are at 18 Mbps while up-links range from 128K to 2 Mbps with an optional and, I presume much more expensive, maximum rate of 8.5 Mbps.

As a guess there are maybe 24 users online ship-wide, including off duty cast, at any given moment. 18 Mbps divided 24 ways is still a respectable data rate but if several users are uploading large megabyte photo files it is easy to see why 2 Mbps would bog down.

You might want to peek at their Sea Mobile page. Cell phone access onboard is coming soon.