Ipad and disney hotels

[Korea Ears]

I would only like to bring my Ipad 2 with me as I travel to disney. What is my best option to set up from wired (provided in the room) to wireless? I understand I will need to purchase and set up a wireless router before going, just wondering what the best choice may be.

 

[drusba]

Buy a travel (pocket) wireless router which you just plug into the wired socket in the room. Key is to set it up at home to assure it is communicating with Ipad and give it the security you want (so others nearby in the hotel cannot use your signal). Apple's Airport Express (more expensive than orhers unless buying refurbished or used), and D-Link's pocket wireless router are two I am most familiar with and they work fine; there are several others on the market. Ipad will work with any of them.

 

[jemmouse]

Or you could just buy one month of cellular service for $25.00 through AT&T...and have 3G

 

[MerriH807]

Or you could just buy one month of cellular service for $25.00 through AT&T...and have 3G

Could you elaborate on how this would work?? Thanks.

 

[JWG]

Or you could just buy one month of cellular service for $25.00 through AT&T...and have 3G

Are you assuming he has a WiFi + 3G Ipad2?
I have Tether for Blackberry and I wish they'd get an App to work for Ipad...

 

[jemmouse]

I was assuming that, sorry I have a 3G and forget they all aren't..

 

[Korea Ears]

I only have the wifi version, no 3G

 

[Buckeye Fan]

I got a MiFi 2200 from Virgin Mobile. It's a mobile hotspot, and super easy to synch with your iPad. Very easy to set up. What I like about VM's MiFi is that you can use the service when you need it. There are no contracts. You buy the device, and then you pay only for the time you want it. They have two plans (10 days & 30 days). The only stipulation (at least it used to work this way) is the device has to be active once during a 12 month period to keep the account active.

Nice thing about it is you can connect (wirelessly) up to 5 devices to it at a time, which makes it great when we're on vacation. Several companies have these, just be careful, as many have 1-2 yr contracts and may or may not have coverage in the areas you are interested in.

 

[palaemon]

I use an Apple Airport Express. I bought it from the apple store online refurbished for $69. It has the same warranty as a new one.

Set it up at home and just plug it in.

You don't have to have a Mac to set it up or use it.

 

[DVC Mike]

I use an Apple Airport Express. I bought it from the apple store online refurbished for $69. It has the same warranty as a new one.

Set it up at home and just plug it in.

You don't have to have a Mac to set it up or use it.

Another recommendation for the Apple Airport...

 

[GDUL]

I used my IPad with an Airport Express this past February without any problems.

 

[Tara]

Another recommendation for the Apple Airport...

And another...

 

[rock_doctor]

I just bought a $25 router from newegg. Plug it in and off you go. Not a big deal.

 

[WDWBlue]

I would only like to bring my Ipad 2 with me as I travel to disney. What is my best option to set up from wired (provided in the room) to wireless? I understand I will need to purchase and set up a wireless router before going, just wondering what the best choice may be.

I bought this D-Link pocket router off Amazon a while back, but I didn't pay this much for it. It's small, easy to set up, and very convenient.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=d+link+pocket+router&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=9944004528370080239&sa=X&ei=-FGaTb2eAqnYiAK_noGdCQ&ved=0CEQQ8wIwAw#

 

[Dean]

I have an Apple AE and the D link. I prefer the D link overall.

 

[CoolDisneyCat]

I use my phone's hot spot feature to provide Internet for my iPad.

 

[mykidslovesdisney]

We are also in need of a wireless connection for our Iphone and I pad. I will be traveling in June to a Hampton Inn in FL. there is free internet but not wireless. What is the difference btwn taking a regular inexpensive wireless router-- (netgear from best buy for $34??) than the apples' airport express? Is one better over the other?? We would also use it when we stay DVC in Aug too.

When we checked into a hampton inn earlier this week they gave us the passoword to access the internet connection -- how does that work when it is suggested that you set up the wireless router at home first to put in a password?

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Aurora1959]

OK - I must not be getting something. Do you mean that the hotels don't have wireless?
I've never been to Florida so I really don't know what to expect there. So this is actually a very educational question for me. I saw a lot of people post in the purple locker thread about bringing a router, and I was curious on why. I'm really interested to learn how this works.

We've stayed at the grand californian mostly, and they have wireless. Hooking up 3 notebooks and an ipad was a piece of cake. The boys all played World of Warcraft during our afternoon breaks and I read some books after downloading them. I didn't need anything extra. If I go to Florida should I expect this to be different?

 

[drusba]

We are also in need of a wireless connection for our Iphone and I pad. I will be traveling in June to a Hampton Inn in FL. there is free internet but not wireless. What is the difference btwn taking a regular inexpensive wireless router-- (netgear from best buy for $34??) than the apples' airport express? Is one better over the other?? We would also use it when we stay DVC in Aug too.

When we checked into a hampton inn earlier this week they gave us the passoword to access the internet connection -- how does that work when it is suggested that you set up the wireless router at home first to put in a password?

any help would be greatly appreciated

I believe the netgear one you are referring to at that price is a regular size router so the difference is it is not a pocket/travel router (which are usually near the size of a deck of cards). You can take any regular wireless router too, including just taking the one you may already be using at home. The pocket size ones you should consider buying if you are going to be traveling more than once per year or otherwise don't want to haul around a regular size router. There are some in the $50 to $60 range and Apple's Airport Express is closer to $90 new but in the $60 range refurbished. But those others in the $50 to $60 range should do fine. Some are just a tad more complicated to set up than the others.

Setting up at home means setting it up so the router actually communicates with your computers, ipads, iphones, and that any security you want is established --like setting up wep security and a passcode that your computers and other devices will have so that when you plug it in at the hotel others on the floor cannot use your signal. Moreover hotel internet lines are open lines. A hacker can possibly hack into your computers while you are using the internet on-line (and leave malware or do other dastardly deeds) if you have set up no security on your wireless router. Thus, by doing set-up at home, you avoid having to do that set-up when you get to the hotel and can just connect it to the ethernet socket provided by the hotel, plug it in the electrical line and your computers will automatically communicate with it.

That the hotel has a password simply means that the first time you go on the internet at the hotel, you will need to provide, via your computer, ipad or iphone, that password on the internet page that will come up when you first try to get on the internet at the hotel.

 

[drusba]

OK - I must not be getting something. Do you mean that the hotels don't have wireless?
I've never been to Florida so I really don't know what to expect there. So this is actually a very educational question for me. I saw a lot of people post in the purple locker thread about bringing a router, and I was curious on why. I'm really interested to learn how this works.

We've stayed at the grand californian mostly, and they have wireless. Hooking up 3 notebooks and an ipad was a piece of cake. The boys all played World of Warcraft during our afternoon breaks and I read some books after downloading them. I didn't need anything extra. If I go to Florida should I expect this to be different?

At WDW, there is no wireless in the rooms. You have only wired hook-up so you have to hook up your computer via an ethenet cord to the socket in the room and that allows only one wired computer hook-up. You can create wireless in room by bringing a wirless router like the one you have at home (the wireless router not the cable router) and hook it up with the ethernet socket in the room, but if you don't want to carry around the bulky one from home (which also risks damage to it when traveling), you can buy a travel wireless router which are usually close to the size of a deck of cards.