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1 minute ago, Grenadyr said:

I have the RAVPower filehub and plan on trying it out in a couple of weeks.  I've experimented with it here at home and it seems pretty easy to setup and use so far.  I hadn't heard anything about MAC cloning but I was under the impression that they provided a login and password for each Voom package you buy.  As you can supposedly log one device out and then login another device using the same credentials I'm not sure why they would be checking MAC's against logins.  I have heard they actively block VPN's though.

I'm not a lawyer (and I don't play one on TV) but I didn't see a restriction on using a travel router in the admittedly brief terms and conditions I found.  They certainly specify each package is per device per day and they have a generic note that pricing is per person.  If you wanted to stretch the "per device" part of that to the breaking point you could argue that the travel router constitutes your one device as its the only device actively connecting to the ships wifi.

Thanks!  I'm not even on Royal Caribbean, so VOOM doesn't apply to me.  But my cruise line also does not appear to have terms and conditions prohibiting this.  Frankly, I'm not sure why they would -- you're getting only a single device's pipeline and splitting it.  It's not like you're pulling additional bandwidth.  It's the same thing as if you logged out on one device and logged in with another, except without the hassle (although it introduces other hassles such as mobility from your cabin with wi-fi).  I don't want to do anything nefarious with it, rather I want to use it to get work emails on my phone but still surf the internet on my iPad.  But obviously everyone will have to judge on their own whether they consider it appropriate legally and ethically.

On 3/19/2019 at 4:19 AM, twangster said:

You can set a password to the router itself and for the wifi SSID it generates.

The only disadvantage of the RAVPower that I have found is that it does not include a feature to clone a MAC address.  I've encountered two ships where it wouldn't work absent of this feature.  All other ships have been fine.  

Can you tell us the best travel wifi router that includes a feature to clone a MAC address?