Horizon Internet Questions

[sgallojr]

I am sailing on the Horizon in July and have a question about the internet.  I purchased the "social" internet package for this sailing.  I know this only grants access to social media sites along with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.  My question is, will either the audio or video calling features on these sites work?  I have read posts that the internet speed is much better on the newer ships compared to the older ones.  Fingers crossed!

[Organized Chaos]

I've seen people say they were able to use voice calling with facebook messenger. I'm not sure about video chat.

[PA Dutchman]

  We  got the Premium Wi-Fi Plan for Jan 5, Horizon.   Hope its better then the Pride was.  We could do almost anything but play games on facebook. I had my reg laptop with and had problems signing on, don't know why. 

[zorky12]

We got the middle package. We could facetime, text, check security system at home and my wife made 30+ calls home to our daughters on wi-fi calling. Worked very good  

[coevan]

2 hours ago, zorky12 said:

We got the middle package. We could facetime, text, check security system at home and my wife made 30+ calls home to our daughters on wi-fi calling. Worked very good  

 

 

Which ship?

 

 

3 hours ago, PA Dutchman said:

  We  got the Premium Wi-Fi Plan for Jan 5, Horizon.   Hope its better then the Pride was.  We could do almost anything but play games on facebook. I had my reg laptop with and had problems signing on, don't know why. 

 

 

according to some CC regulars the new ships have streaming speed. I believe StGreg got 7Mb on the Vista 

[zorky12]

It was Vista but Horizon has the same system

[PA Dutchman]

I hope so, we will see

 

[mommyof3texans]

I had the social plan on the Dream a week ago and could voice call over Messenger but the wifi calling did not work for me on WhatsApp for some reason. 

[zorky12]

41 minutes ago, mommyof3texans said:

I had the social plan on the Dream a week ago and could voice call over Messenger but the wifi calling did not work for me on WhatsApp for some reason. 

 

 

She did not use any app to call from. She used her phone which was a iphone 7. In order to use Wi-FI calling you must set up your iphone to be able to do so. Basically you have to agree that if you call 911 while on Wi-Fi calling they wont be able to see where you are. Not sure android based phones because I have never had one.

Edited December 26, 2019 by zorky12