Lots and lots of vessels have painfully slow satellite links - think <=64kbps - whereas the others mostly have very slow satellite links - ~512kbps.
Trust me, in such conditions you do not want to cough and ask whether you can download your training material off the corporate VPN...
(Heck, in many cases, shipowner policy prevents any third party computer from being connected to any onboard IT infrastructure, anyway.)
Lots and lots of vessels have painfully slow satellite links - think <=64kbps - whereas the others mostly have very slow satellite links - ~512kbps.
Trust me, in such conditions you do not want to cough and ask whether you can download your training material off the corporate VPN...
(Heck, in many cases, shipowner policy prevents any third party computer from being connected to any onboard IT infrastructure, anyway.)