The Lines App has a blanket note at the top when looking at park wait times that says “Use Disney’s free Wi-Fi for best results!”. It has been a couple of years since I was in the parks, so I want to ask… is AT&T coverage worse than the free WiFi? Or is there some tie-in with the Lines App and WDW’s WiFi behind that scenes that somehow helps the App and us… like keeping track of times and locations or something?
I’m an AT&T customer and only use my own data in the parks. The WDW Wi-Fi is spotty and unreilable IME.
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Ditto here. Also AT&T.
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Thanks to both of you, I’ll plan on using my AT&T coverage when I’m there… I can relax over that at least. Now it’s just my lingering curiosity on whether there is some special tie-ins with WiFi that helps our TouringPlans friends or what.
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I’ve found my Sprint coverage is also generally faster than WDW wifi. The exception is inside buildings.
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@Nikki, thanks. Sounds like cell internet is pretty much the way to go if you can. Thank goodness for “unlimited” data plans!
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I used free wifi on most days, as we would incur roaming fees if I didn’t. The wifi was slow and not available everywhere. On our AK day, I wanted to try for a SDFP so I paid the roaming fees. I didn’t get the FP, but the service was better when using data, rather than relying on their wifi.
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@Ariadne, thanks. At least one in our group is going to be using WiFi for the majority of the trip for the same reasons… probably not for ROTR though, since it sounds iffy.
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Two of our kids don’t have data plans. It was just easier to let them hotspot off us. Just another option to consider if your person struggles with the wifi.
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