On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:24:11 -0600, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:17:41 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:00:09 -0600, Richard Casady
wrote:

I have a wireless modem that will work on a cruise ship a thousand
miles from land. No extra charge. Same address in the headers
everywhere.

Tell us more.

Who makes it? How does it communicate? Model # ?
Price ?

Forty bucks. In the offshore case something was going on that involved
the ships radio gear and satellites. Might as well be magic, there was
no extra charge from the phoneco or the ship.

Casady

In other words, you got lucky. I've been on several cruise ships in
the last few years and they all had satellite internet available at
about $1/minute. They also have their own onboard WiFi systems but
all that I've seen were secured. It sounds like your boat also had
their own cellular system but it's possible that you were in a US port
at the time and connecting the regular way. I've been able to do
that in Puerto Rico and the USVI using my regular aircard.