Has anyone tried taking their Internet phone adaptor onboard? We have Vonage phone service at home and were planning on bringing the router with us to see if we could plug it into our laptop and make calls that way.

However, I just went to Vonage's website and for $40, they sell a keychain size phone that plugs into latops and PCs:
http://www.vonage.com/device.php?type=VPHONE

This may be ideal for our September 20th Mariner cruise that hits Alaska, Russia, and Japan.

With our monthly Vonage phone plan, we get free calls to the US, Puerto Rico, Italy, France, Spain, UK, and Ireland. Calls to Japan are .06 to .19 depending on the network area and calls to Russia are .07 to .13 per minute.

I think I'll call Vonage tomorrow and see if I can find out if this will work on a cruise ship. I'll report back with my findings.

Andrea