I want to avoid data charges on a NCL cruise. Can I use WIFi locally on the ship on my 5S 7.03 without triggering their internet charges? If so, how?
iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.2
No you cannot. They are providing the wifi, so you have to pay for it. The only other option is to roam on your cellular, and I don't think you want to do that.
Depending on where the ship is you can use cellular to access the Internet. But make sure you are onto roaming internationally.
To use Wi-Fi on the ship turn on airplane mode then turn on Wi-Fi.
If the ship charges for Wi-Fi you'll have to pay for it.
yes turn cellular data off settings cellular
turn wifi on settings wifi-
Peace, Clyde
Don't think you can roam in the middle of the ocean. (no cell towers there)
In any case, unless you have a magic box that provdes free internet with you, you will have to use the ship's Wifi and incurr their charges.
This response seems to get to what I was asking. I'm not looking to use my cell data (roaming) instead of the Ship's internet service. NCL has WIFI throughout the ship, if I use it locally, say to send photos to my laptop or to use Voxer with another passenger, for example, am I correct that I can use the ship's WIFI without going through their "meter" for the internet?
In other words can do they charge if the signal doesn't leave the ship?
Again, if you use the ship's Wifi and they charge for it you will incurr charges.
Depending on how the Ship charges, either by connection time, or by MB downloaded you may or may not incurr additional chargers if you are just transferring things from your Phone to the computer.
Timed based Wifi which appears to be the one NCL uses will still charge you for time spent connected by your devices even if you download nothing from the internet.
http://www.ncl.com/about/staying-connected-sea-internet-access
Actually, many cruise lines allow you to roam on the open sea with a microcell type device they use based on satellite Internet access. We cruised on Royal Caribbean back in May and they charge wifi access either in a total trip package or by 24 hour access. The problem with using the iPhone is the need to continue to authorize after wifi drops during the 24 hour period. And the time is not calculated by connection time, it is by clock time, so if the initial connection is at 1000 on Tuesday, it expires at 1000 on Wednesday, even if you were only connected for a total of 1 hour.
Using iPhone on a cruise?
