WiFi Access Spots?
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Hey, wifi access would be great, at least for the dining areas, as others have suggested, but ideally all over the park for those waiting on others riding rides, those actually in the queues, etc.
One way to keep from overloading the system with too many users would be to just give the password to platinum passmembers only. {haha just kidding!}
One way to keep from overloading the system with too many users would be to just give the password to platinum passmembers only. {haha just kidding!}
it would be quite a task to provide coverage over the whole park. But I could see them offering WiFi in certain areas without much problems.
pandorazboxx said:
It's very possible to do though, it would be probably be though for them to ease into it with select show/rides/eateries having hotspots for a year and then expand to cover the entire park after. The way they push their apps from within the park, you'd think they'd want people to have the ability to actually use them from within the park.
Gavin said:
From a glance it's like a few white tubes and a white box that says Cisco which is what I use for Internet at home.
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maryDancer
I believe you need Wi-Fi to fully exploit the park's find-out-where-you-are and direct-me-to-where-i-wanna-go application on modern touch-screen devices. Yes? No?
My teenager has the app on his iThingy and tells me he can't get signal.
Also... the park needs an app that let's you sit in the San Marco theater, order a glass of Chardonnay, and get somebody to bring it to you. With the order rung up on your Discovery Dollars wrist band.
My teenager has the app on his iThingy and tells me he can't get signal.
Also... the park needs an app that let's you sit in the San Marco theater, order a glass of Chardonnay, and get somebody to bring it to you. With the order rung up on your Discovery Dollars wrist band.
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maryDancer
Shafor said:maryDancer said:
You can just purchase a whole bottle. Self serve.
The app should have options for:
-- bring me a glass
-- bring me a bottle
-- bring me n bottles
-- bring me the barrel
-- foot massage
-- manicure
It is in fact a WiFi router, the kind you would use to build a single large (as in metropolitan) cohesive WiFi network.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11451/index.html
I have no idea if this is for the park's own use though. Aside from accepting credit cards at stands (which there are other ways to do that), I can't think of any real reason why they would need WiFi across the park, let alone with hardware this robust.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11451/index.html
I have no idea if this is for the park's own use though. Aside from accepting credit cards at stands (which there are other ways to do that), I can't think of any real reason why they would need WiFi across the park, let alone with hardware this robust.
Well these are new, or have I just not noticed them before? Maybe they do plan to offer free wifi within the next season or two?
I work for Cisco. They are mostly likely using these for bridging to ticket booths and such so they don't have to run new cables. I doubt there are any plans to add WiFi to the park. Having done many installations, the millions of dollars required for an enterprise wireless system just wouldn't be worth it for the park unless they charged serious money to use it.
But it is also on shops not just at ticket booths, I can understand ticket booths and guest relations having them, but shops too?
Not questioning you, but more or less your reasoning that Busch wouldn't add it because of cost....vtbrian said:
Holiday World has added park wide wifi, along with other parks, albeit larger parks.... If anything, cost really /wouldnt/ be the issue for the park. With goal of wanting to be a "resort" or "destination park"... wifi would be a great addition, regardless of the cost.
I mean if other parks, I think including kings dominion, can offer free wifi Busch gardens should be able to and like mentioned, they want to be a resort and travel destination it really would help.
The park recently announced to team members they have a new benefit, free wi-fi access! Interesting right? I seriously think the park is getting closer and closer to being equipped with free wifi throughout the park or in designated areas for guests. Right now the current wifi hot spots and in the vicinity of the bathrooms in England, Smokehouse in France, Festhaus in Oktoberfest, and Ristorante Della Plaza in Italy.
Now something even more interesting about this is the park has terms and agreements you must accept before being able to get internet connection. Once you agree, you enter in your team member username and password and free internet is yours! What I find about this particularly interesting is, what if the park was able to make it so that free wifi can be a pass benefit? Enter a username and password for each pass holder and you get instant access as long as your pass is active.
Also to note, those Cisco wifi boxes and now in the vicinity of the above mentioned areas. So maybe the park is branching out across the park slowly, but is going to add wifi throughout the park eventually. What is everyone's thoughts on this with the new information I provided?
Now something even more interesting about this is the park has terms and agreements you must accept before being able to get internet connection. Once you agree, you enter in your team member username and password and free internet is yours! What I find about this particularly interesting is, what if the park was able to make it so that free wifi can be a pass benefit? Enter a username and password for each pass holder and you get instant access as long as your pass is active.
Also to note, those Cisco wifi boxes and now in the vicinity of the above mentioned areas. So maybe the park is branching out across the park slowly, but is going to add wifi throughout the park eventually. What is everyone's thoughts on this with the new information I provided?
Tell that to all the people who bring iPads, iPods, and other iDevices
But honestly, what about the non-riders waiting on the riders? Wifi would help them use their iDevice to the fullest while waiting.
But honestly, what about the non-riders waiting on the riders? Wifi would help them use their iDevice to the fullest while waiting.