Vonage on cruise ship
 

Will my VOIP work on the internet connection on a cruise ship. I have heard it is slow.
Does this mean Vonage won't work at all or will the quality be very bad?

VOIP over satelllite has huge latency issues. Add to this the fact that most cruise ship internet blocks voip. By the time that you factor in the overhead of a SSH tunnel or a VPN and I can't imagine that it would be a very legible call. If you are going to try it, I would try a G729 connection or better yet an IAX one.

I heard most cruise ships block VOIP, Skype, etc.

Besides, the cruise ship I was did not even have EDGE. It was GPRS. So, very slow indeed!

I think the person is talking about using the ship's wifi net. I"m on a Regent Seven Seas cruise in October and internet (via wifi) is $0.20 a minute. VOIP over it wouldn't be bad, but I question whether I can get an outbound connection where I don't sound like I am underwater.