Visited during the week after Thanksgiving. This was my first time trying to use the MDE app in the parks. We don’t Have a USA phone plan. I had hoped to just be able to use the guest wifi, but could only get weak signal wherever I went. I have an iPhone 5 and my wife has a 7. We had no issues using wifi at our rental or even fast food parking lots on our trip. I could barely even text my wife to meet up if we had separated. MDE only even loaded on my phone in the parks a couple of times. My wife had better luck and was able to score a fourth FastPass while we were at Garden Grill one day, but even hers was very hit and miss when it came to loading the app to look for the closest washroom or check FP times.
I get that my phone is old and hers is not the latest model but I would have thought they at least have been serviceable. I even cleaned out my photos and stuff before the trip to make sure there was extra memory space for the app to run in... great trip but found MDE to be pretty useless in the parks. Had the best luck in less crowded parts of AK around Discovery Island and the worst service in fantasyland, so I’m guessing it’s a lack of bandwidth for guests? Anyway, is it just us or do we need to plan on getting a US data plan next time?
I get that my phone is old and hers is not the latest model but I would have thought they at least have been serviceable. I even cleaned out my photos and stuff before the trip to make sure there was extra memory space for the app to run in... great trip but found MDE to be pretty useless in the parks. Had the best luck in less crowded parts of AK around Discovery Island and the worst service in fantasyland, so I’m guessing it’s a lack of bandwidth for guests? Anyway, is it just us or do we need to plan on getting a US data plan next time?