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Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: Rubycon
RADAR!

Watching that fall while sailing towards the Turks and Caicos islands today. :p

I hope you're having fun, cheers Rubycon! :beer:
 

Rubycon

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rudeguy

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Originally posted by: Rubycon


I'm jealous of 98% of ATOT's internet connection speed right now! :(

What type of speed do you get?

I am stuck on a < 1 meg down DSL connection.
 

skyking

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Originally posted by: Rubycon
RADAR!

Watching that fall while sailing towards the Turks and Caicos islands today. :p

I just got back in from knocking that crap off the bamboo. It was just about on the ground with snow.
 

BoomerD

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Thanks for the link in your first post Ruby...as someone already asked...what kind of vessel is that you're on?
 

DanTMWTMP

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Hehe, I feel better that there is another AT'er currently at sea. I'm just a tad bit more south than that :beer: cheers to a fellow sailor!
Are you under the Ku-band or C-band for internets? If you say ku-band, ohhh man I feel even more sorry for you.
 

xanis

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Originally posted by: StevenYoo
the radar, sir... it's .... JAMMED!

Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry: Lone Star!
 

destrekor

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Originally posted by: MotF Bane
What kind of ship is that?

This.

At first I wanted to guess civilian cruise vessel of some kind, then I noticed the radar/comms equipment seems to be a little more special-looking.
 

DanTMWTMP

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Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. Even with the cost, to even squeak out a 128-256kbps connection shared across the entire ship on a consistent basis is nearly heavenly; and this is assuming she is operating under the C-band frequency. Don't expect her to respond back quickly, nor share a ton of pics since she can't share that many pics so quickly.

Anyways, like I said, great to see another AT'er out at sea suffering the slow internets.
my location!
location.jpg

ummm
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml <--- :p so which one are you?
I know that entire area is just LITTERED with cruise liners. Do you actually work on a cruise ship? That pic is a bit aft of the bridge, about 1 deck higher.

You are on one of these ships:
Eurodam
Celebrity Century
Monarch of the Seas
Liberty Sun
Tropic of Canada
etc..

My guess is the Celebrity Century.





Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
What kind of ship is that?

This.

At first I wanted to guess civilian cruise vessel of some kind, then I noticed the radar/comms equipment seems to be a little more special-looking.

The larger dome is probably a C-Band satellite dish for Internet.
The smaller one looks like an Immarsat f77 sat phone dish for just satellite phone comms or the newer maritime ip-based fleet broadband service (which is still very slow, hehe). The smaller one is mainly used as a backup, as it is pay-per-data.

I think most cruise ships have these now.
 

AlienCraft

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Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. Even with the cost, to even squeak out a 128-256kbps connection shared across the entire ship on a consistent basis is nearly heavenly; and this is assuming she is operating under the C-band frequency. Don't expect her to respond back quickly, nor share a ton of pics since she can't share that many pics so quickly.

Anyways, like I said, great to see another AT'er out at sea suffering the slow internets.
my location!
location.jpg

ummm
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml <--- :p so which one are you?
I know that entire area is just LITTERED with cruise liners. Do you actually work on a cruise ship? That pic is a bit aft of the bridge, about 1 deck higher.

You are on one of these ships:
Eurodam
Celebrity Century
Monarch of the Seas
Liberty Sun
Tropic of Canada
etc..

My guess is the Celebrity Century.





Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
What kind of ship is that?

This.

At first I wanted to guess civilian cruise vessel of some kind, then I noticed the radar/comms equipment seems to be a little more special-looking.

The larger dome is probably a C-Band satellite dish for Internet.
The smaller one looks like an Immarsat f77 sat phone dish for just satellite phone comms or the newer maritime ip-based fleet broadband service (which is still very slow, hehe). The smaller one is mainly used as a backup, as it is pay-per-data.

I think most cruise ships have these now.
Yep. She's not likely to respond past the initial post.
Rubycon has the coolest job I can think of, and I worked in Rock and Roll, which rates up there in some people's book.
In my mind's eye, she's like that "Technical Goddess/ G4" Commercial.
Don't anybody wreck it !!! :D

 

Rubycon

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Originally posted by: Gothgar


omg, see those little black dots... aliens, you are about to get abducted

:confused:

Probably dirty sensor (damn full frame sensor is HARD to keep clean in a harsh environment!) combined with lots of jpeg compression to keep the size
small. :(

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. ...

Yes indeed it is. I'm on the Norwegian Dawn FYI!

C band getting about 200kbps average cost me $0.10 per minute to use!
LEO (outside contractor) setup I'm blessed to have access for free and is 1Mbps+ both ways with a sixth of the latency! Fastest thing on the seas but currently the links are HARD DOWN (sic). :(

Text like these posts are not bad but no youtube or other stuff with audio for now. :(
 

Gothgar

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Originally posted by: Rubycon
Originally posted by: Gothgar


omg, see those little black dots... aliens, you are about to get abducted

:confused:

Probably dirty sensor (damn full frame sensor is HARD to keep clean in a harsh environment!) combined with lots of jpeg compression to keep the size
small. :(

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Guys, her internet, like a lot of other internets at sea is satellite-based, and extremely expensive to own and operate. ...

Yes indeed it is. I'm on the Norwegian Dawn FYI!

C band getting about 200kbps average cost me $0.10 per minute to use!
LEO (outside contractor) setup I'm blessed to have access for free and is 1Mbps+ both ways with a sixth of the latency! Fastest thing on the seas but currently the links are HARD DOWN (sic). :(

Text like these posts are not bad but no youtube or other stuff with audio for now. :(

Yeah, I figured.... I was gunna circle them all with paint or something and repost the picture, but alas, I am lazy