Resort Wi-Fi changes effective from today

[wdwmagic]

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/inter...resort-wi-fi-changes-effective-from-today.htm

 

[weedles]

"The network names (SSID) will be changed from 'WDW-Guest' to 'In-room Guest WiFi (Disney)' and 'Public Space Guest WiFi (Disney)'."

I wonder if this is to differentiate between picking up signal (sorry for the less than technical wording ) from a resort vs general park etc area or for onsite versus offsite guest access status? Perhaps I just read to much into this.

 

[flynnibus]

I can't figure this out at all.. making different SSIDs actually hinders experience.

If they were on the same SSID, your web client would roam between APs based on who has the strongest signal automatically.

Using the strongest signal is automatic...

 

[Rasvar]

I can't figure this out at all.. making different SSIDs actually hinders experience.

If they were on the same SSID, your web client would roam between APs based on who has the strongest signal automatically.

Using the strongest signal is automatic...

Actually there is a reason. Different Terms of Service (TOS) for park and hotel. The fact they are different names works as a reminder that guests need to agree to TOS at each location. Too many guests were wondering why it stopped working in the park after they had it working at the resort. This separates that process.

 

[PhilharMagician]

I can't figure this out at all.. making different SSIDs actually hinders experience.

If they were on the same SSID, your web client would roam between APs based on who has the strongest signal automatically.

Using the strongest signal is automatic...

Could this be happening so they can secure the resort access seperately for guests only?

 

[PhilharMagician]

Actually there is a reason. Different Terms of Service (TOS) for park and hotel. The fact they are different names works as a reminder that guests need to agree to TOS at each location. Too many guests were wondering why it stopped working in the park after they had it working at the resort. This separates that process.

How often have they required reauthorization of the TOS for the parks? Last October I was @ AKL it was 1 week before I was prompted and BLT was 3 days. It did not make sense why they had 2 differant reauthorization periods.

 

[Rasvar]

How often have they required reauthorization of the TOS for the parks? Last October I was @ AKL it was 1 week before I was prompted and BLT was 3 days. It did not make sense why they had 2 differant reauthorization periods.

I think it is suppose to be once a day now. Once for any parks and once for any resort. At least that it what it was doing when I was there two weeks ago.

 

[PhilharMagician]

I think it is suppose to be once a day now. Once for any parks and once for any resort. At least that it what it was doing when I was there two weeks ago.

For the resorts that seems like a bit of a PITA.

 

[Glasgow]

Could be a licensing issue as well - may not have budgeted to have the parks WAPs on the same WLCs or the WLCs may not be set to roam yet .. just saying (*Geek mode off*). Probably a ToS issue though, as RasVar mentioned.

Great, just another way for the man to keep track of me while I'm on vacation! ha

 

[Rasvar]

Great, just another way for the man to keep track of me while I'm on vacation! ha

Ha! Just wait until the Magic Wristbands are in place!

 

[Scar]

Might also have something to do with conventions. Many of the resorts have convention space and this might separate that traffic from room traffic. Who knows, though? I'm just speculating.

 

[dreamfinder]

Possibly a way to start enforcing bandwidth limits? Be changing the resort guest access to something that requires some sort of auth, code from your ressie type thing, they can allows good access to everything. But then start to further close down the in park/public wifi so that it only works with what they want it to? High speed to the dining reservations site and the Magic App back end infrastructure, but slow access to YouTube.

 

[nytimez]

They should rename Disney's Magical Express to "Bus To/From Airport (Disney)"

 

[flynnibus]

Actually there is a reason. Different Terms of Service (TOS) for park and hotel

But again.. why bother with a different TOS. Disney isn't restricting in park traffic to only park activities.. you aren't paying for access to the service in either location... So what would they do differently that would require a different TOS?

 

[Texas84]

Public space is probably the lobby, restaurant, etc. You might see both but they can do a lot with signal strength.

 

[Tom Morrow]

I think it should say "Disney In-Park Wifi" or something. public space??

 

[yeti]

Yay?

 

[Polydweller]

I think it should say "Disney In-Park Wifi" or something. public space??

The change today was only at the resorts and does seem to differentiate places like the Libby from the rooms. They do have different DNS servers.

The parks were still guest wireless but wouldn't be surprised to see that change.

 

[sambres8]

Can we all take a minute to appreciate how awesome this website is? I love that I woke up to a tweet from @wdwmagic this morning telling me that WDW is changing the names of their Wi-Fi networks, and now there have been 18 comments discussing it. I love this forum! haha