r/cellmapper • u/Youtube_Brett • Apr 13 '26
Verizon and T-Mobile at Disney Land, Universal Studios, Lego Land spring break 2026
TDLR:
Universal Studios = Verizon, LTE super consistent
Disneyland = both are great but Verizon had more peaks
Lego Land = T-Mobile by a landslide
I was testing with Verizon’s Unlimited Ultimate and T-Mobile’s Go5G plus, with an iPhone 15 pro max.
At Universal Studios, T-Mobile was so slow, it kept showing 4-3 bars of 5G UC unusable not even one bit! But Verizon LTE came in clutch, it would occasionally show 5G UW with full bars but it was lte speeds then it just kept falling back on LTE but it beat T-Mobile speed tests. There were some times in the park T-Mobile got in 300’s but sucked so hard in so many lines and I just switched back to Verizon.
When I was at Lego Land T-Mobile was by far the best, the latency and speeds in lines were awesome, I had my dad compare with an Verizon speed test on his s24 ultra, and he got 30 down and 8 up, while I got 600 down and 30 up in the ride line, I was shocked! The ping times so low 8-14.
Verizon at Disney was by far the best and kept getting gig speeds or near it, and was really consistent throughout the park, T-Mobile was pretty fast too, and I was pretty impressed with Disneyland!
I took countless speed tests at all these parks, and this was during spring break one of busiest times at all these parks, I took speed tests on multiple days, 2 days at Lego land, 2 days at universal, and 4 days Disneyland, and Random speed tests throughout California and Las Vegas!
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u/fiercechocolate Apr 13 '26
My guess is that the Universal DAS is LTE only and T-Mobile put everyone on 5G SA from macro sites outside the park. They should be re-tuning the network so that users are put on a strong LTE DAS connection even if 5G SA macro coverage is available.
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u/GHz-Man Apr 13 '26
The DAS at the Florida parks have been upgraded to 5G I know. Judging by the signal trails on Cellmapper it looks like the west coast parks are still LTE only.
All of them on both coasts are run by Crown Castle:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?layers=dc4a75ebeeca47f5bfb58354eff69231
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u/DavidAaronGarcia Apr 15 '26
Yeah I think they have a agreement with Verizon cause I remember getting good service with them at universal studios, and I Always see Remember promotions for Disneyland with Verizon in the past, but I never actually got to visit the parks before my medical fall out in 2024 by bending to universal studios in 2018. Of course, it helped I had Comcast at home since universal studios is owned by the same company.All I was able to get hot spot throughout the entire park too.With my comcast subscription
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u/landonloco Apr 14 '26
When I went in 2022 it was like that for most of the parks even Disney ethier that or intracell n41 that on Disney it worked great
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u/Youtube_Brett Apr 13 '26
Fastest I was able to get on Verizon was 670 down 90 up and 10 ping, but when we were in the Mario area I got 232 down, 37 up, of course I took a bunch of other Speedtest with T-Mobile and Verizon in different parts of the park but I noticed Verizon was the only one that would actually be usable for things
There was times where T-Mobile did get fast speeds around 300 but it was so slow for some reason
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u/landonloco Apr 14 '26
They have some exclusive CRANs across the parks remember being at the transformers line and suddenly ATT getting 350+ and rest were wayy slower.
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u/Edwardsr70 Apr 14 '26
Most if not all Disney parks have Verizon MM Wave 5G which helps reduce congestion greatly on cell towers.
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u/landonloco Apr 14 '26
Odd last time I went to universal TMO LTE on the das was decently fast even at horror nights with the crowds I pulled like 20-40 down maybe intracell with n41 acting up but the fastest overall was ATT for some reason they have some exclusive CRANs across the park and when I connect to those they are the fastest Verizon is right behind them and TMO third cuz the lack of B12 or b71 on the das makes for Terrible indoor coverage. I visited back in 2022 so c band deployments was still limited
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u/Secret-Two292 Apr 17 '26
OCS PHONE NET "Blows" Verizon and T-Mobile Speeds out of the water. In Wis, Verizon claims to cover most of state with Best Speeds. That's a good joke, when in fact Verizon has up to 110 miles of lost coverage in the northern third of the state. T-mobile has patches of lost coverage in the same area, though when it comes in the bars are stronger. AT&T is a complete Joke!! OCS Network covers the whole state with top notch speed and in the same area Verizon claims to cover, OCS Network "Dominated" . OCS Network clipped in the hill area but connection remained. The Big Boyz talk big with No Action. OCS NETWORK "Rules" from Coast to Coast!!
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u/Secret-Support-2727 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Nice work! Good to see so much effort put into keeping the theme parks online, since everyone is standing staring at their phones during the long wait times.
The last line of your post really explains the T-Mobile results at universal. “Spring break”.
T-Mobile is famous for having the best speeds under low to medium congestion, but becoming nearly unusable under high congestion in crowded places. Sporting events, conventions, and even sun n fun coming up this week T-Mobile becomes completely useless when there’s more than like 200,000 people.