Comments on: No Asterisk on Cruise Ships … Yet

By: ReginaldW

ReginaldW — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:22:20 +0000

Re: “my in-law’s once-removed”

You divorced your first wife but Mom-in-Law still likes you and are still considered part of the family. Nice situation if it stays friendly.

[WM: Getting closer. My wife’s first husband died as a result of a vehicle accident. We later married and her former in-law’s adopted me into the family.]

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:22:08 +0000

Re: "my in-law’s once-removed" You divorced your wife but then decided to re-marry her, so they were once removed? [WM: Heh, heh. Good guess, but no cigar.]

By: Jason Sjobeck

Jason Sjobeck — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:20:28 +0000

How about g729 in your softphone over OpenVPN over port 80?

(I, too, wonder what PBX the ship has onboard? Some clunky traditional piece of wall-mounted plastic from a big name manufacturer, I’m sure.)

By: Wasim Baig

Wasim Baig — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:03:50 +0000

One thing you may want to try, establish a tcp tunnel through port 80 to one of your own boxes on the net, then pipe udp through that (IAX would probably be easier, since its all one port) Do check that you have good low rtt and low packet loss for this to have any hope of working. [WM: Why didn't we think of that? We've even written about it on the Mac platform. Good idea for the next trip. Thanks.]

By: Nullvariable

Nullvariable — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:06:20 +0000

Now if only I could afford to take a cruise all the time! Some would argue that the whole point of a cruise is to get away vs spend time on the internet but some of us just can’t stay away. I wonder what the cruise lines are using for an internal phone system (if they have one).

[WM: Typical hotel PBX on most ships: voicemail, wakeup calls, overpriced outbound calls, etc.]