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Personally I’d go with the Quantum as she stops at Icy Strait Point.  For now that port has not become overrun with too many ships in port and the silly diamonds / tanzanite international stores.  I’d recommend sticking with the Radiance or Serenade.  They’re perfect for Alaska.   

10 hours ago, mk-ultra said:

 

Did you have to purchase the package once onboard?  All I see in my cruise planner under internet access is ship-to-shore calling (10 minutes for $49.50... eek).

I purchased on board as I had OBC, but prepurchase was showing in the cruise planner up until the very last moment.   

On 11/20/2019 at 9:02 AM, Haboob said:

The answer for that is simple:  The ship buys "x" bits-per-second uplink to a satellite.  If you are the only person logged in on the ship (yeah, but bear with me), it's all yours.  If a second person logs in, you now share.  Etc.

 

At 4am, you ought to have good bandwidth available.  At 9am, you may not.  If something suddenly makes a bunch of folks want to look something up on Google, you may not.  If an extended-family group onboard finds out that a video of a newborn has been posted, you may not.  If the satellite company swaps out ground stations, you may not.  Etc.

 

Onboard Grand last month, there was plenty of bandwidth available all day long, but I doubt there would have been if we'd gone further north, say to Ketchikan, where Grand would have had to switch to more expensive satellites.  YMMV.

It’s more than sharing a pipe issue onboard.  It’s having serious issues.  Wednesday it was completely down from 2pm to 10pm.  I think there’s some hardware failures and they are just limping along until next voyage and MedallionNet.  It’s 11:14pm ship’s time and it took me 10 minutes just to get into this post.  Internet Manager said the MedallionNet techs are aboard now readying for Dec. 3rd. 

I’m aboard the Grand right now.  Purchased the package that lets you stream.  Sometimes while streaming it works great and then just suddenly stops working.  This while not changing my location..  It’s a weird system.  Doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the “outages”.  And before we get the “why would you stream video on a cruise” questions / comments, my job has me working long hours each day.  It’s nice to sit down after a relaxing day and watch things I am unable to at home.  

4 hours ago, jmadams said:

There’s other content to watch besides streaming. I download movies to my iPad and play them back on my Apple TV to watch with my family.   I have enough to binge watch two series.  I’m probably only going to stream Survivor because Boston Rob is back.  I am going to be on the Royal on a Mexican cruise.  It’s been recently updated so everything should be current.

You mentioned an Apple TV, have you tried just using the Apple Digital Video Adapter on the iPad?  Plugs into the lightning port and it provides an HDMI & a lightning port (for charging while watching).  This would eliminate having to take the Apple TV.  This is the setup we use when traveling.  Our November Hawaii Cruise on the Grand will be my first test on Princess.  We last used this on RCCL’s Anthem.