Upgraded Wi-Fi service rolled out across all four parks this week

[wdwmagic]

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/inter...olled-out-across-all-four-parks-this-week.htm

 

[Smillies]

Here's my speed test from Magic Kingdom this morning. Wish I had one from last weekend but it definitely feels speedy browsing Photopass pictures.

 

[dannyboyindc]

This is both awesome and worrisome. I truly hope it doesn't encourage people to constantly use their phones on dark rides or attractions to text/tweet/fb/hashbrown

 

[mikeh]

I had issues yesterday evening with an LG G3 Android device and just decided to fall back to LTE. My device does use the 802.11b band, but also the a/g/n/ac bands.

 

[toasty]

This is good to hear, the system has definitely been spotty when I've used it in the past. This can only be good, I think.

 

[RayTheFirefly]

I wish they'd put back those cell phone charging stations in Tomorrowland, and then put them everywhere around the parks. They were super useful, especially if Disney is encouraging us to use our phones more and more.

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

Most will be pleased by this, but I will continue to stubbornly refuse to use the wifi, and will actively avoid using my phone at WDW as much as possible. Too much other fun stuff to look at in the parks to be buried in my phone looking at FaceTime or hashtaging my Instagrams.

Now, if Disney ever developed an app for the bus system that displays real time arrival info, I would use that extensively.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Here's my speed test from Magic Kingdom this morning. Wish I had one from last weekend but it definitely feels speedy browsing Photopass pictures.

Look at that upload! Nice!

 

[PhotoDave219]

Most will be pleased by this, but I will continue to stubbornly refuse to use the wifi, and will actively avoid using my phone at WDW as much as possible. Too much other fun stuff to look at in the parks to be buried in my phone looking at FaceTime or hashtaging my Instagrams.

Now, if Disney ever developed an app for the bus system that displays real time arrival info, I would use that extensively.

Its my understanding that its in development. It was the primary reason for behind the scenes changes in a bus dispatch system.

 

[mikeh]

Now, if Disney ever developed an app for the bus system that displays real time arrival info, I would use that extensively.

Cast Members are already using an app that does this exact thing. I would imagine it would be rolled out to either MDE or maybe screens near the stops

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

@PhotoDave219 and @mikeh

Great to hear. Look forward to that long overdue feature going live for everyone.

 

[mikeh]

@PhotoDave219 and @mikeh

Great to hear. Look forward to that long overdue feature going live for everyone.

Here's a look at the app in use:
https://www.facebook.com//photos/a....8834130488210/850871204951166/?type=1&theater

 

[PhotoDave219]

Cast Members are already using an app that does this exact thing. I would imagine it would be rolled out to either MDE or maybe screens near the stops

Thats the plan.... or was 4 months ago anyways.

 

[andysol]

This is both awesome and worrisome. I truly hope it doesn't encourage people to constantly use their phones on dark rides or attractions to text/tweet/fb/hashbrown

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

If not- you do realize that you don't need 18mb/s speed to tweet or text- and that you could have done it just as easily with the old wifi?
"Disney has good news? Not in this house- I won't allow it!"

 

[startraveler]

I'm not a much of a tech person and don't own a smart phone. I don't know anything about bands etc. I used an iPod touch with wifi the last time we were there. Did I understand that the upgraded system won't work with iPods or just old iPods? If only old ones are not supported, how old? Thanks. Heading disn there in May and need to have a way to alter fast passes etc without going to a kiosk.

 

[cspencer96]

I'm not a much of a tech person and don't own a smart phone. I don't know anything about bands etc. I used an iPod touch with wifi the last time we were there. Did I understand that the upgraded system won't work with iPods or just old iPods? If only old ones are not supported, how old? Thanks. Heading disn there in May and need to have a way to alter fast passes etc without going to a kiosk.

Don't worry - All models of Apple iPod Touch (including back to the 1st generation) support the 802.11g standard. Disney is dropping support for 802.11b only, which means that any iPod Touch will be fine. Only early-mid 2000s devices will no longer work, and even some of them will be fine if they support 802.11g.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I'm not a much of a tech person and don't own a smart phone. I don't know anything about bands etc. I used an iPod touch with wifi the last time we were there. Did I understand that the upgraded system won't work with iPods or just old iPods? If only old ones are not supported, how old? Thanks. Heading disn there in May and need to have a way to alter fast passes etc without going to a kiosk.

@wdwmagic might want to revise the wording. The very first iPod touch supported 802.11b/g, so it will still work. I doubt many people will be affected by dropping 802.11b. Just off the top of my head I can't think of any mobile device that would only have 802.11b outside some very old PDAs, but who would have one today?

 

[wdwmagic]

@wdwmagic might want to revise the wording. The very first iPod touch supported 802.11b/g, so it will still work. I doubt many people will be affected by dropping 802.11b. Just off the top of my head I can't think of any mobile device that would only u have 802.11b outside some old PDAs, but who would have one today?

I've had reports that the first gen iPhone and iPod Touch are not working. There may be more to the upgrade than elimination of b, but I'm not sure what else would cause those early devices to fail.

 

[NormC]

Could it be a WEP, WPA, WPA2 thing?

 

[startraveler]

Don't worry - All models of Apple iPod Touch (including back to the 1st generation) support the 802.11g standard. Disney is dropping support for 802.11b only, which means that any iPod Touch will be fine. Only early-mid 2000s devices will no longer work, and even some of them will be fine if they support 802.11g.

Thanks.