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Emailing to U.S. from Blue Danube trip
I will be travelling on the Blue Danube during the Oct. 8 trip. I need to keep in touch with my businesses back home in the U.S. Should I bring a computer or are the computers on the boat sufficient to keep in touch via email?
Paul F.
Paul F.
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We were on the Jewell last year on the Rhine/Moselle rivers and used the computer in the Lido lounge upstairs. You could sign up for 15 minutes at a time. The internet service is intermittent going under bridges and going through locks. I bought an iPad for our next river cruise. The Tauck river boats are supposed to be wired for wi-fi. If you don't get a response from someone on this site, call the Tauck 800 number
Sheila
The wifi worked for us (we were on cabin 204 on the Jewel) but it is very slow (common for satellite, especially shared satellite, remember you are sharing a very slow connection with many other people.) We found connectivity best after 11 p.m. or very first thing in the morning.
I'd recommend bringing your own laptop so you can download your email, compose your responses off-line and then send them later. That allows you to do something, like dress for dinner, while your email is being sent (yes, it is that slow that sending a 2000 word email without pictures, takes a couple of minutes.)
Remember, because of the slow connection, no large files (i.e. photos or large attachments like 30 page .pdf files) and should Microsoft want to do an update while you are on board, it won't likely happen. We paid the outrageous price for internet at the Prague Marriott when we got there so I could update my computer. It was nice to have a fast connection once again.
There is a 'limit' of X megabit transfer per cabin per trip but you can just get a fresh log-in each time you run out at no additional cost. Our first evening, checking email and the three websites we are webmasters on, used 1/3 of our limit for the 7 days on board. We managed to nurse it along for 4 days after that and then got a fresh log-in. A young man on the cruise had several fresh log-ins per day.