I (US resident) will be in Mexico on vacation on Oct 27, will I be able to pre-order through Apple at 12:01PDT on Oct 27 using the Apple Store app when I'm not in the US? Not sure that I saw what countries the X is available in at launch. Thanks for any help!
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iPhone X pre-orders in Mexico?
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I’m in a similar boat literally, as on Oct 27th I will be on a cruise ship off the coast of Mexico. It should be fine, but just in case, I have downloaded two VPN apps to my Apple devices. Seems like PureVPN and NordVPN are the recommended ones. If there is a problem letting me purchase through the US Apple store, then I will enable VPN through a US server.
Make sure you remember VPN’s operate at much slower speeds since they route to many servers combined with spotty cruise ship internet... you may be SOL compared to those with stable internet speeds back home. I would not get your hopes up of a launch day delivery
Good luck getting through with the ship's wifi. Every ship I've been on, the wifi service was super 2G which is well less than 1Mbps. OK for email, but not much else. That said, maybe a midnight you might sneak in.
Yes in the old days, but more recently cruise lines have installed higher speed service. I’m traveling on Royal Caribbean where they use a provider called Voom who have a surf and stream package. Reading the forums, looks life the speed has consistently being recorded on Speedtest at around 5Mbps during peak hours during the day and at around 15 - 20Mbps in the early hours of the morning. It’s definitely not my Gbps plannI have at home, but with a bit of luck, I may just be in the running like ya’ll. If I have to go through a VPN then I am fully aware that slows down my service even more though
Yep- we used Voom aboard the Allure of the Seas last Summer. It works well when it works. But there are times where the signal drops. Just be ready for it on preorder night, make sure all info is already in your account because you will be disadvantaged on a very tough preorder. I wish you luckYes in the old days, but more recently cruise lines have installed higher speed service. I’m traveling on Royal Caribbean where they use a provider called Voom who have a surf and stream package. Reading the forums, looks life the speed has consistently being recorded on Speedtest at around 5Mbps during peak hours during the day and at around 15 - 20Mbps in the early hours of the morning. It’s definitely not my Gbps plannI have at home, but with a bit of luck, I may just be in the running like ya’ll. If I have to go through a VPN then I am fully aware that slows down my service even more though
I will actually be sailing on Allure, so good to hear from you that it works well. Trust me, I will have all my ducks in a row on pre-order night. Hopefully the signal won't drop around the pre-order time. We dock in Cozumel the very next day, so at 3am EST, I expect we will be near the coast of Mexico and not in the middle of the Caribbean ocean somewhere - so hopefully that helps. Any tips on where on the ship you got the best signal?
At 3 AM eastern, you luckily won’t be competing with many other guests for bandwidth. (Unless many people on board are trying to preorder!) my advice would be to hunt for a visible router somewhere along the cieling and camp near there. If there are none visable, download Speed Test or some similar app and walk around to a few locations and test the wifi speeds until you find a fast spot. Hopefully your room will be sufficient so you don’t have to leave early in the morning. Make sure you check out the cafe on Deck 8 in the Central Park area! Great spot for a relatively healthy quick lunch in-between activities, I hope you have a nice trip.
Also, if you are really paranoid, I believe there is a computer station you can pay for by the half-hour and get a wired connection (just not sure if it will route through the US apple store...)
See my last post as well, but I also recommend going down to Deck 5- go on the running track and head to the back of the ship at sunset. Here is a nice photo from our trip right at the back-most end of the ship. (Pardon the quality, the image site I posted to killed it) https://s1.postimg.org/1l19g94dtr/13_AF196_F-_A05_E-429_E-_BE1_A-6_D8_B2028038_F.jpg
Wow you escalated things pretty quickly. Apple's website doesn't care where you are or where you want it to think you are. Only your credit card's billing address and the shipping address matter.