Easy sharing WiFi package on cruise ships

[sc10]

This particular sharing method is available to certain Android cell phones only. Some later Android models are capable to run mobile hotspot and WiFi at the same time. I know for sure Samsung Galaxy S21 and later can do that. What you need to do is turn on mobile hotspot and also WiFi. Log into you cruise ship WiFi account, then your other devices can share your WiFi data package by logging into the hotspot account. If you have an active mobile account on the hotspot host, turn off the international roaming so your Android phone will not connect to the cruise ship maritime mobile network. You can use a host phone without mobile service also.

[sc10]

Just finished a Princess Cruise. The wifi sharing using my Galaxy 21 Ultra worked exactly as described. I did have to make some adjustment to the phone setting to enable the wifi hotspot to stay on continuously.  For phones that do not have wifi sharing with hotspot (including iPhone), there is a work around. You need an inexpensive travel router. Connect the travel router to your onboard wifi account and share the wifi from the travel router. You might have to clone the imei of the router using your phone imei.

For internet connection on land (Europe for this case). I purchased a regional esim for Europe. There were no problems accessing internet in the countries I visited. The esim only provided data and no voice or text. For that I used Whatsapp and Google Voice. In Europe, many business establishments have Whatsapp number that you can call and message them.

[Winter2025VA]

@sc10 , thanks for sharing & glad you were able to go on a cruise!!!

NO pressure to reply but was wondering how SAFE all this is?

We often read FBI reports [and others] "warning" against using PUBLIC wifi.

*** Are there any SAFEGUARDS to use on a cruise? ***

HAPPY 4th when it gets here!

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@sc10 wrote:

Just finished a Princess Cruise. The wifi sharing using my Galaxy 21 Ultra worked exactly as described. I did have to make some adjustment to the phone setting to enable the wifi hotspot to stay on continuously.  For phones that do not have wifi sharing with hotspot (including iPhone), there is a work around. You need an inexpensive travel router. Connect the travel router to your onboard wifi account and share the wifi from the travel router. You might have to clone the imei of the router using your phone imei.

For internet connection on land (Europe for this case). I purchased a regional esim for Europe. There were no problems accessing internet in the countries I visited. The esim only provided data and no voice or text. For that I used Whatsapp and Google Voice. In Europe, many business establishments have Whatsapp number that you can call and message them.

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[sc10]

Public wifi is not safe that is a given. Use vpn if you need to use public wifi for anything sensitive. For what I did in sharing wifi from the cruise ship I think is pretty safe. It was not a public wifi. You have to pay to get your own private wifi account. I have not heard of any security issue on that.

[Winter2025VA]

Thanks @sc10 !!!