WiFi in WDW

[Tom Morrow]

Free WiFi at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom rolls out free WiFi Other parks coming soon USA Today Travel Free guest WiFi was rolled out with no formal announcement at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom park yesterday. Guests who connected to the "Disney-Guest" network and accepted Disney's terms of service were able to freely utilize the Internet using the service. While Disney has not responded to an inquiry regarding the details of the service, MousePlanet was provided with a statement that "WiFi is on scheduled [sic] to be rolled out for all of our theme parks and DTD by early 2013." Free WiFi was recently rolled out at all resorts without fanfare, as well. One thing to keep an eye on is whether Disney has actually been able to build out a network that will handle traffic from tens of thousands of guests in each park and still provide sufficient bandwidth that it's not swamped, resulting in insufficient bandwidth per user. That's likely the scenario already effecting Internet connectivity in the parks through cellular service providers. Disney will need a huge amount of bandwidth to accommodate its ultimate purposes here. If they've been able to accomplish that with this service, it could potentially reap a number of benefits for both guests and Disney. continue by Mark Goldhaber, Mouse Planet complete article

Submitted by Ezra

[Executioner]

I like this. I have a feeling they have done their number crunches numerous times to figure out what they would need as well as how to do it so they will ultimately not get bogged down on bandwidth. They have seen what happens at huge events in their parks as people struggle with their own service providers to send out tweets and the various other forms of data, only to watch their batteries die a painful death before the day has begun. It happened at Leap Day and it happened at the Star Tours event as well as opening day of Carsland/Buena Vista Street. I have faith that Disney knows what they are doing with this.