QV Wi Fi Upgrade

[transatlantic fan]

We are on the QV 4 day cruise.

In todays programme it states all staterooms will today be fitted with a new wi fi hot spot , and should take around 15 minutes. 

[Host Hattie]

Thanks for the update, did it say when they would be working  ?

[transatlantic fan]

Not as yet , will try it when they have fitted ours and update.

[transatlantic fan]

May not be today just sometime during this cruise.

[foodsvcmgr]

This corresponds to what I was told last month on QV, that the new Starlink system would be completed by mid-September.

Should be a huge improvement.

[ballroom-cruisers]

Is there any evidence of the set of new Starlink antennas somewhere near the top of the ship? They are usually almost rectangular and often a set of 6 mounted on posts on the high railing somewhere.

[Lanky Lad]

38 minutes ago, ballroom-cruisers said:

Is there any evidence of the set of new Starlink antennas somewhere near the top of the ship? They are usually almost rectangular and often a set of 6 mounted on posts on the high railing somewhere.

They are just behind the funnel above deck 10 over the entrance to the C stairway. 

 

Hot spots are needed, I was in cabin 1091 last week and unless I stood behind the door, I couldn't get a signal. 

[ballroom-cruisers]

47 minutes ago, Lanky Lad said:

They are just behind the funnel above deck 10 over the entrance to the C stairway. 

 

Hot spots are needed, I was in cabin 1091 last week and unless I stood behind the door, I couldn't get a signal. 

 

Thanks - hopefully the new faster internet will be available for when we next get aboard.  If the new routers in all the rooms are installed and wired up it should make a significant improvement to being 'connected' and hopefully lead to internet grumbles being consigned to history (well, one can hope!).

[rakkor]

My WIFI signal in 5075 is weak currently, but it's bearable and the Premium package elsewhere on the ship has been much better than previous cruises. Jane is using essentials as she signed up on day one using her credit and that seems acceptable, although we've had a 5G signal since mid-day yesterday so I'm assuming the WIFI isn't being burdened as much as it would be on a TA

[Pushpit]

50 minutes ago, rakkor said:

My WIFI signal in 5075 is weak currently, but it's bearable and the Premium package elsewhere on the ship has been much better than previous cruises. Jane is using essentials as she signed up on day one using her credit and that seems acceptable, although we've had a 5G signal since mid-day yesterday so I'm assuming the WIFI isn't being burdened as much as it would be on a TA

On a trip like that (SOU-AMS) I would expect that for much of the trip you would get a terrestrial cellular signal. On TA's you tend to lose everything by the first morning until fairly close to Brooklyn. I did do one westwards TA that hugged the Eastern Seaboard more than usual due to poor weather and so there was a signal on the penultimate day.

[LadyL1]

10 hours ago, transatlantic fan said:

We are on the QV 4 day cruise.

In todays programme it states all staterooms will today be fitted with a new wi fi hot spot , and should take around 15 minutes. 

That is brilliant news!

[transatlantic fan]

Still not had ours installed yet ,but can say it's already the fastest speed I have had on any cunard ship in over 50 cruises, using my phone as a hotspot and 3 devices connected. 

 

[transatlantic fan]

Currently have 23 MBPS Download, fast enough to stream YouTube and netflix using a fire stick.

[transatlantic fan]

Now over 50 mbps

[ballroom-cruisers]

Fabulous to hear.

[D&N]

1 hour ago, transatlantic fan said:

Now over 50 mbps

Could you have been connected to a land based free WiFi at that point? KPN have hotspots all over Amsterdam and at IJmuiden and Strand Wijk aan Zee, which would have been near QV's location at that time. KPN are the Dutch equivalent of BT in the UK. I wouldn't have expected a satellite system to show them as the base connection.

[sogne]

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/cunard-and-p-o-boosting-wifi-with-elon-musk-s-satellites-b2413503.html

 

even made the press

[rakkor]

32mbs in the QV Commodore Club (Premium  Internet) just now and I had a very successful Zoom meeting with work today until the heavens opened and the internet got a bit sketchy

 

[sfred]

On 9/17/2023 at 5:04 PM, Lanky Lad said:

They are just behind the funnel above deck 10 over the entrance to the C stairway. 

 

 

I noticed that QE had the external hardware when we boarded a few weeks ago in San Francisco. 

 

And then the below announcement appeared in today's program guide in Barcelona. 

 

Adobe Scan 18 Sept 2023.pdf

[Wonky]

Just boarded QV and more good news on the wifi. Introductory offer on Starlink from 18 Sep to 30 Nov essentials plan is back to $15 per day on voyage plan and premium $20 and CWC credits DO work with the deal👍

[Winifred 22]

Oh that’s great for everyone I will just miss it in December.