When I first began writing about cruising three decades ago, the typical internet connection at sea wasn't just slow. It was glacial. You'd click on a website only to experience many seconds of frustration. Maybe the page would come up. Maybe it wouldn't. Maybe the cruise would end while you were still sitting there.
Thankfully, those days are long gone. Internet service on cruise ships in recent years has gotten a lot faster — and less expensive, to boot. Indeed, if you haven't been on a cruise in a few years, you might be shocked at how much faster the Wi-Fi speeds are on cruise ships than during your last sailing — and how much more affordable internet packages have become in some cases.
While there still are some ships and some cruising locations where surfing the internet takes significant patience, excruciatingly slow internet speeds on cruise ships are increasingly a thing of the past.
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