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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: tothedogs]
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01/23/2015 04:05 PM
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tothedogs said: On a recent 10 day trip I paid $60 for an AT&T international data package. I then tethered/paired other devices to the phone. Worked great everywhere with good speeds. In STT maybe, no AT&T signal in BVI and data is very expensive. We got a Lime data card with our mi-fi works great about $50 for 5 Gigs of data for the whole boat. AT&T woks in BVI on the west side only
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: tothedogs]
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01/23/2015 06:24 PM
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That's a joke right? $120 for 800Mb??
Better off buying a lime or digicell sim and router.
Matt
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Intennet Services
[Re: Joshua]
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01/24/2015 03:56 AM
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Jimp,
I'm still trying to figure this stuff out but here is what I think I know.
In early December I rented from Renport at the Sunsail/Moorings base. They had a $120 wifi for 7 days. I made a deal with them for $150 (the next plan up) for 10 days, so $15/day. I don't know which carrier Renport uses. My experience was that it worked in some anchorages and not in others.
Since I plan to do this more in the future I plan to buy an unlocked wifi modem and then get a sim card from Digicell or Lime (they both have stores in Roadtown near the round-a-bout). You might look at data plans on mrsimcard.com although it seems you pay a premium on their sim cards for the convience. I am thinking buying my own wifi router will be cheaper than Renport in the long run.
If "the guys" can get a GSM wifi modem from IT (Verison is not GSM) and someone wants to figure out how to unlock it you might save the price of the wifi modem, not that expensive to buy one though and I think you can do a hard reset on it so it will be locked to ATT again, as I understand it.
These are just my musings, I'm sure others can help out with more detailed information.
Life involves risks, take some prudent ones (NOT with the BVI ferries)!
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: sail2wind]
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01/24/2015 07:51 AM
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sail2wind said:tothedogs said: On a recent 10 day trip I paid $60 for an AT&T international data package. I then tethered/paired other devices to the phone. Worked great everywhere with good speeds. In STT maybe, no AT&T signal in BVI and data is very expensive. We got a Lime data card with our mi-fi works great about $50 for 5 Gigs of data for the whole boat. AT&T woks in BVI on the west side only I must respectfully correct you on the ATT information. We have been on our boat in the BVI since November and I get my ATT signal at Sopers Hole, JVD and even at the Willy T! Not just the Bight but sitting on the Willy T. Was not this way in the past but now ATT seems to be much better even without being in sight of the USVI. Of course no ATT at North Sound, Road Town ETC. but if you plan properly.....
It's not what you've got, it's what you give, it's not the life you choose, it's the life you live.
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: Teammac]
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01/24/2015 08:21 AM
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Teammac said:sail2wind said:tothedogs said: On a recent 10 day trip I paid $60 for an AT&T international data package. I then tethered/paired other devices to the phone. Worked great everywhere with good speeds. In STT maybe, no AT&T signal in BVI and data is very expensive. We got a Lime data card with our mi-fi works great about $50 for 5 Gigs of data for the whole boat. AT&T woks in BVI on the west side only I must respectfully correct you on the ATT information. We have been on our boat in the BVI since November and I get my ATT signal at Sopers Hole, JVD and even at the Willy T! Not just the Bight but sitting on the Willy T. Was not this way in the past but now ATT seems to be much better even without being in sight of the USVI. Of course no ATT at North Sound, Road Town ETC. but if you plan properly..... I know someone who got a roaming bill of around $6,000 a few years ago. The U.S. carrier, maybe not att, said you were in the bvi. The fact you were on our towers is not relevant. The kind carrier permitted extended payment terms but no discount. So be careful.
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: warren460]
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01/24/2015 10:38 AM
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At&t doesn't have any extra charges if you are on their network in the virgins. I believe Verizon had additional charges though.
We get an at&t signal on the west side of the BVI and use as lime phone everywhere else.
I believe moorings uses digicel. At least when we used one provided by them, that's what it was.
Matt
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: sail2wind]
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01/25/2015 09:39 AM
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Posts: 1,953 St. John, USVI
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We stopped in to Spanishtown on Tuesday and hit the Digicel store to buy a router and a prepaid sim. It was a quick and painless exercise. We bought the Huawei B681 110V router and I'm impressed with the speed. 3GB good for 30 days was $55. Performance is pretty impressive.
We got ATT later that day at Cooper Island on our mifi and multiple devices.
Having both ATT and Digicel will let us spend more in de islands. With 9+ weeks scheduled sailing this year, leaving work behind is not an option.
Pandora, everything, works fine over the routers. For our smartphones we just leave data roaming off and use wifi when we do not have service. With unlimited data plans on our smartphones we try to keep them on ATT.
Cheers, RickG
Last edited by RickG; 01/25/2015 12:06 PM.
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: Tarroc]
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01/25/2015 06:09 PM
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Tarroc said: Pandora depends on which router and what connection. If you are on a US network, you'll get it but on a BVI network (or Antigua and Barbuda, as it says) you'll get a message from Pandora saying "This service is not available in your country." Tune-in Radio app works well, though. That's what I got last year using LIME. Is there a work around? I'm kinda internet dumb <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: sail2wind]
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01/25/2015 08:48 PM
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Re: Best Option - On Boat Internet Services
[Re: jboothe]
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01/26/2015 07:26 PM
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jboothe, I can go on a one week vacation and not check in at the office. But, my boss is a jerk (self employed with two companies) and I've got to stay in touch if I'm gone longer than a week. I'm a lot happier keeping up with email and I'm the first one up in the morning. I got away with only one work call during our recent two week trip thanks to email. The router I bought was from the Digicel store. The price was as listed on their site, $159 for pre-paid option, $55 for 3GB - http://www.digicelbvi.com/en/phones/phones_list.php?manufacturer=28I tried to get an old unlocked mifi to work with a mail order sim card, but never got it to behave. The guys at LIME store probably could have made it work, but we weren't taking a day to go by the store. Talking to their phone tech support, it sounded like they needed to do a quick setup on their side to for a device new to their network. If you plan on stopping by the store to pickup a pre-paid sim card, make certain you call in advance to make certain they have what you want in stock. Mrsimcard.com worked fine for voice/text for my old unlocked iphone 4. I haven't tried to get a cdma/gsm phone work on LIME or Digicel. I'd give them a call and ask. Their staff I've met in the stores for both companies are competent. Cheers, RickG
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