Wifi in the Park?

[Dizzytime]

I can only imagine that if they're offering free wifi, they're doing some throttling of streaming media sites.

As well they should, and I don't blame them. Regardless, I think a great many people will enjoy the wifi access, and in a few years everyone will be saying 'remember in the old days when we couldn't log on in the parks?
hah!

 

[PaulaSB12]

It's free now.

Sorry I meant free wifi in the other parks would be coming in the next few months.

 

[tony609]

It's great news that Magic Kingdom is getting free wifi! Yeah. I don't really want to lug around a DVD player, but that is a good idea if nothing else works well. I am going to put a few movies on my phone, but lately he's been really into a few shows he watches on netflix. I've also found a couple of games that he likes (a Handy Manny matching game, and a TSM game - so those are nicely themed for our visit) Thanks everyone for the replies.

Not sure what phone you have BUt you can buy Handy Manny and other Dsiney channel shows on itunes for $1.99 in Standard definition and put them on your iphone, just sync in itunes. Its way better than trying to rely on wifi, which I have my doubts will be strong enough, reliable enough to power netflix in the park, I could be wrong. BUT wifi is tricky especially when a lot of people are on it, inside buildings in certain areas etc.

I would just down load some shows for him off itunes. Then you will always have them and can be watched anywhere over and over.

Theres also a toy story mania app for iphone that you can get. Its pretty cheap under $5 ..its all the gamesfrom inside the Toy tory mania ride. It's easy to work and fun. I have it, Its great!

Have a magical day!

 

[Suellen]

There has been free wifi at Magic Kingdom (we did stream Netflix FWIW)

A couple spots in Epcot and a couple spots at AK.

Didn't find any at DHS... Um maybe on GMR... But certainly not like in th other parks.

 

[Mom2six]

It appears that this service is being installed to help support Next Gen FP or whatever you call it, not give people free access to everything on the net.

If that's the case, I'm sure Disney themselves will let people know that the free wifi isn't to "give people free access to everything on the net." Since just about everywhere else that simply offers free wifi (like for instance WDW resorts) gives it for personal use, I'm sure if they have different expectations, they will say so...or maybe they'll have random people on the DISboards decide their policy.

 

[DisneyFive]

As long as these two apps work fine, then that's all I care about right now:

"Lines" from touringplans.com (way faster than My Disney Experience)

or

"My Disney Experience"

Dan

 

[chartle]

If that's the case, I'm sure Disney themselves will let people know that the free wifi isn't to "give people free access to everything on the net." Since just about everywhere else that simply offers free wifi (like for instance WDW resorts) gives it for personal use, I'm sure if they have different expectations, they will say so...or maybe they'll have random people on the DISboards decide their policy.

If you think I'm dictating policy I'm not.

I'm just putting forwarded a theory of why they installed free Wi Fi (when no other amusement park in the world does) and that if they allow bandwidth hogs like video streaming its going to impact the system. A system that appears that they need to make XXXXXX* work for everyone that doesn't have a data plan.

This comes from this random person who worries about network bandwidth every single day at my job. When something hogs my network (like it did two weeks ago when someone tried to update their Garmin) my two local sites can't communicate and it pretty much brought down both networks.

If I was in Disney network support I would be pushing to limit the amount of bandwidth that anyone person could get. So therefor I would not expect Netflix to work or if it did there would be so much buffering that it would be pretty much useless.

Many free and even paid internet services have terms of service limits. For at least awhile, USB cellular devices had a clause that said you were not allowed to use their service for steaming video or uploading or downloading large files it was just for email and light browsing. People have also reported that Disney is blocking certain sites on their MK network so yes they can say how you can use their service.

* Insert your name for the next FP system here.

PS if you read my second post here I wasn't trying to single you out, my post just kind of came out that way.

 

[GirlDreamer]

If you think I'm dictating policy I'm not.

I'm just putting forwarded a theory of why they installed free Wi Fi (when no other amusement park in the world does) and that if they allow bandwidth hogs like video streaming its going to impact the system. A system that appears that they need to make XXXXXX* work for everyone that doesn't have a data plan.

This comes from this random person who worries about network bandwidth every single day at my job. When something hogs my network (like it did two weeks ago when someone tried to update their Garmin) my two local sites can't communicate and it pretty much brought down both networks.

If I was in Disney network support I would be pushing to limit the amount of bandwidth that anyone person could get. So therefor I would not expect Netflix to work or if it did there would be so much buffering that it would be pretty much useless.

Many free and even paid internet services have terms of service limits. For at least awhile, USB cellular devices had a clause that said you were not allowed to use their service for steaming video or uploading or downloading large files it was just for email and light browsing. People have also reported that Disney is blocking certain sites on their MK network so yes they can say how you can use their service.

* Insert your name for the next FP system here.

PS if you read my second post here I wasn't trying to single you out, my post just kind of came out that way.

Actually Alton Towers offers free wifi, and I know that since I work there and it's a pain because it won't work in our break room and the normal internet is really crappy And I'm sure more and more parks will start to offer it as well

 

[Mom2six]

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PS if you read my second post here I wasn't trying to single you out, my post just kind of came out that way.

Sorry I was snippy in my response.

 

[chartle]

Sorry I was snippy in my response.

Yes its tough when you are not talking face to face.

But like a posted, most of these large campus wide Wi Fi systems are not really designed for major band width.

There may even be early posts where people said they connected fine but thats mostly because no one knows about the service.

Our airport also has Wi Fi and its a very open building. I barely get one little bar on my phone.

 

[coozieman]

You can look forward to seeing the Wi-Fi icon on your smartphones very soon...beta testing in MK will be taking place in the very near future....

 

[chartle]

You can look forward to seeing the Wi-Fi icon on your smartphones very soon...beta testing in MK will be taking place in the very near future....

Yes we know, in fact its happening now.

What this thread is about is what kind of speed to expect.