quietrob posted at 9:23PM Fri, 25 October 2019 - #4368298

rokket posted at 9:34AM Fri, 25 October 2019 - #4368270

I am accessing this site and others on my ship's internet. It's slow and there are a lot of things I can't do: upload/download software or patches or updates is the biggest one. The bandwidth is very limited.

And I don't know when I will be in port again. We left suddenly without much warning this morning. We were supposed to be there a couple more days...

I know all about bandwidth issues. I don't know what country you're going to be in (I understand the term "Need to Know basis) but if you have access to an American or Swedish library, I would go there, commandeer one of their computers and download the update to a flash drive. A 14G flash drive held everything I needed. It reduced my download time from hours to roughly 45 minutes.

It's not just the bandwidth that's the issue. We are getting our internet through a satellite, and it's originating in San Diego or Norfolk. But it's the fact that these are government computers and we are limited as to what we can and cannot do with them. Such as download a patch for an unapproved software. I will be out here about 3 weeks before I even get a glimpse of shore...

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.