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Besides, I suspect that if the boat's wifi > isn't working it might be because there
not much mobile coverage along the
river as we go east into Romania. But
maybe I'm wrong.

Cruise ships wifi is satellite Internet.
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"Graham. " <graham-usenet@mail.com> Wrote in message:

Besides, I suspect that if the boat's wifi > isn't working it might be because there
not much mobile coverage along the
river as we go east into Romania. But
maybe I'm wrong.

Cruise ships wifi is satellite Internet.

Viking cruise boats claim to use both terrestrial and satellite
internet in Europe and Egypt. I suspect this TUI cruise boat is
terrestrial only.
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Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:

"Graham. " <graham-usenet@mail.com> Wrote in message:

Besides, I suspect that if the boat's wifi > isn't working it might be because there
not much mobile coverage along the
river as we go east into Romania. But
maybe I'm wrong.

Cruise ships wifi is satellite Internet.

Viking cruise boats claim to use both terrestrial and satellite
internet in Europe and Egypt. I suspect this TUI cruise boat is
terrestrial only.

I'd guess an ocean cruise ship may use satellite, perhaps with terrestrial
when in port. A river cruise ship probably has good enough terrestrial coverage not to need satellite, unless it's going somewhere particularly remote.

Theo
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Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> Wrote in message:

"Graham. " <graham-usenet@mail.com> Wrote in message:

Besides, I suspect that if the boat's wifi > isn't working it might be because there
not much mobile coverage along the
river as we go east into Romania. But
maybe I'm wrong.

Cruise ships wifi is satellite Internet.

Viking cruise boats claim to use both terrestrial and satellite
internet in Europe and Egypt. I suspect this TUI cruise boat is
terrestrial only.

(I should have mentioned that Viking cruises are much more expensive.)

We're currently in Serbia. Before entering Serbia from Croatia we
were advised over the PA to turn our phones off unless we were
sure that our roaming package included Serbia. The onboard wifi
lost internet connection for several hours; perhaps until TUI
bought some more data, perhaps until the police had checked our
passports.

Demonstrations against government corruption by students and
teaching unions here continue. (The president of Serbia is
currently in Moscow.)

Soon we will have Romania to port and Serbia to starboard. With my
old Nokia phones I could select which to conbect to. Is that
possible with an iPhone?
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Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:

Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> Wrote in message:

"Graham. " <graham-usenet@mail.com> Wrote in message:

Besides, I suspect that if the boat's wifi > isn't working it might be because there
not much mobile coverage along the
river as we go east into Romania. But
maybe I'm wrong.

Cruise ships wifi is satellite Internet.

Viking cruise boats claim to use both terrestrial and satellite
internet in Europe and Egypt. I suspect this TUI cruise boat is
terrestrial only.

(I should have mentioned that Viking cruises are much more expensive.)

We're currently in Serbia. Before entering Serbia from Croatia we
were advised over the PA to turn our phones off unless we were
sure that our roaming package included Serbia. The onboard wifi
lost internet connection for several hours; perhaps until TUI
bought some more data, perhaps until the police had checked our
passports.

Demonstrations against government corruption by students and
teaching unions here continue. (The president of Serbia is
currently in Moscow.)

Soon we will have Romania to port and Serbia to starboard. With my
old Nokia phones I could select which to conbect to. Is that
possible with an iPhone?

You can do manual network selection on an iPhone by going to
Settings > mobile service > click on your sim under the SIMs section >
network selection > turn off automatic

Then it will take quite a while doing a network scan to list the available networks.

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Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> Wrote in message:

Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:

...
Soon we will have Romania to port and Serbia to starboard. With my
old Nokia phones I could select which to conbect to. Is that
possible with an iPhone?

You can do manual network selection on an iPhone by going to
Settings > mobile service > click on your sim under the SIMs section > network selection > turn off automatic

Then it will take quite a while doing a network scan to list the available networks.

Thanks. I've locked it to TELEKOM.RO which is good for the
remainder of the trip south/east.
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On 09/05/2025 21:50, Dave Royal wrote:

I should have mentioned that Viking cruises are much more expensive.

It must be so they can pay that woman with the annoying 'posh'
affectation on the radio adverts.

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