Wireless at WLV

[ctnurse]

We are staying at WLV gift from stepmoms brother. I want to bring my laptop. How does wireless work.. I thought I read it was free if not how does it work..Thanks

 

[n2mm]

You will find an ethernet cable in the closet (if not call). You have to hook up with it. (I just got a new mini/netbook to take with us. My laptop is just too big to travel with. The mini is nice.)

 

[Deb & Bill]

There is no wireless, only wired connections.

 

[ChelleinNC]

We are staying at WLV gift from stepmoms brother. I want to bring my laptop. How does wireless work.. I thought I read it was free if not how does it work..Thanks

It's wired, not wireless and it's free for members staying on points. As a guest of a member, you may or may not get charged for it. Internet is around $10 per 24 hours. Even members have to click on the "accept charge" when starting it up, but then don't get charged.

Hope that made sense

 

[ctnurse]

so it is wired but it is still broadband. Dad just has to check his email when we are there.

 

[disneynutz]

Yes it's a high speed connection. You will need a Ethernet connection on your computer. Some Members bring a longer cord or their own travel router to make their own WiFi.

 

[jco_direwolf]

so it is wired but it is still broadband. Dad just has to check his email when we are there.

Nope it's not broadband. Last I checked it looked to be about a T1.

The service is not provided by Disney. There is a local ISP who provides the connectivity and they charge back to the resort somehow which then shows up on your bill. If you are a DVC member the charges are waved. (I suspect DVD negotiated a better bulk rate for us.)

You should have enough bandwidth "to check e-mail."

I tried to sync about 10GBs of photos back to my house, and I got it done, but it took a while (I was using rsync though a ssh tunnel, so it could restart without an issue.)

I have 20 Mbit/s to/from my house, when I looked at tcptraceroute, it looked like the uplink from the resort was the slow link. (I saved the diagnostics I did somewhere, if I could find them I would post them.)

johno

 

[Deb & Bill]

Nope it's not broadband. Last I checked it looked to be about a T1.

The service is not provided by Disney. There is a local ISP who provides the connectivity and they charge back to the resort somehow which then shows up on your bill. If you are a DVC member the charges are waved. (I suspect DVD negotiated a better bulk rate for us.)

You should have enough bandwidth "to check e-mail."

I tried to sync about 10GBs of photos back to my house, and I got it done, but it took a while (I was using rsync though a ssh tunnel, so it could restart without an issue.)

I have 20 Mbit/s to/from my house, when I looked at tcptraceroute, it looked like the uplink from the resort was the slow link. (I saved the diagnostics I did somewhere, if I could find them I would post them.)

johno

johno, speak English, please.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Broadband has now been defined as 768 kbps by the govt for the stimulus program. Since a T1 provides twice the speed it technically can provide broadband service - always has. I'm actually surprised that the speed was that great - I would have suspected it is shared and would be much slower on average. I think Disney expects most guests to just want to check email and not require more.

But, it's more than enough to handle email OP.

 

[jco_direwolf]

Broadband has now been defined as 768 kbps by the govt for the stimulus program. Since a T1 provides twice the speed it technically can provide broadband service - always has.

It seems the FCC has different rules than the International Telecom Union, which says it has to be faster than PRI (A T1 with ISDN signaling on it.)

I guess being out of the ISP business for the last few years I missed that one.

And yes the uplink is shared, they always are, and over subscribed. Just don't expect FIOS or even Comcast speed out of you connection.

johno