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T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon: Analysts Pick Who Has the Fastest Speeds at Theme Parks

Opensignal has published data on the fastest mobile connections at the biggest US theme parks, including Disneyland, Disney World and Universal Studios.

Mobile speeds at the most visited theme parks in the US are more than 50% faster than average mobile speeds, an Opensignal report says.

Clocking the speeds of mobile devices in the most-visited theme parks across the country, mobile analytics company Opensignal said upload speeds are also «substantially faster» in a report published June 15.

«Faster than the national average download speeds around theme parks are an impressive achievement when taking into consideration how many guests visit them, which is likely to lead to network congestion,» the report said.

While the parks do offer Wi-Fi, Opensignal found users are spending less than 20% of their time actually connected to it.

So, which carriers offer the best experience in the most popular theme parks? Check out the stats from Opensignal below.

Walt Disney World, Florida: Best carrier experience

This includes the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios.

Download speeds: T-Mobile 126Mbps, Verizon 67.8Mbps, AT&T 67.1Mbps
Upload speeds: Verizon 17Mbps, AT&T 15Mbps, T-Mobile 14Mbps
Consistent quality: AT&T 85%, Verizon 84%, T-Mobile 83%
5G availability: T-Mobile 51%, AT&T 49%, Verizon 18%

Disneyland Resort, California: Best carrier experience

This includes both Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure.

Download speeds: T-Mobile 108Mbps, AT&T 57Mbps, Verizon 48Mbps
Upload speeds: T-Mobile 16.4Mbps, AT&T 15.7Mbps, Verizon 11Mbps
Consistent quality: T-Mobile 85%, AT&T 81%, Verizon 79%
5G availability: T-Mobile 66%, AT&T 47%, Verizon 19%

Universal Orlando, Florida: Best carrier experience

This includes both Universal Studios Orlando and Universal’s Islands of Adventure.

Download speeds: T-Mobile 73Mbps, AT&T 60Mbps, Verizon 44Mbps
Upload speeds: AT&T 13Mbps, T-Mobile 12Mbps, Verizon 11.5Mbps
Consistent quality: T-Mobile 78%, AT&T 77%, Verizon 75%
5G availability: AT&T 46%, T-Mobile 35%, Verizon 10%

Best theme park connections overall

Beating out the Disney parks was Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Florida, which has the best upload and download speeds on average.

Here are the top five US theme parks with the fastest average download speeds:

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida: 102Mbps
Knott’s Berry Farm, California: 89Mbps
Walt Disney World, Florida: 85Mbps
SeaWorld, San Diego: 72.4Mbps
Universal Studios Hollywood, California: 72.3Mbps

Here are the top five theme parks with the fastest average upload speeds:

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida: 21Mbps
Universal Studios Hollywood, California: 18Mbps
SeaWorld Orlando, Florida: 16Mbps
Walt Disney World, Florida: 15Mbps
Disneyland Resort, California: 14Mbps

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile did not respond to a request for comment.

For more on carriers, check out CNET’s list on the best mobile phone plans, the best unlimited data mobile plans and the best phones to buy in 2023 — whether iPhone or Android.

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Oct. 22 #598

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Oct. 22, No. 598.

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one — I definitely have at least two of these in my house. Some of the answers are a bit tough to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Catch all.

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: A mess of items.

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

BATE, LICE, SLUM, CAPE, HOLE, CARE, BARE, THEN, SLAM, SAMBA, BACK

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

TAPE, COIN, PENCIL, BATTERY, SHOELACE, THUMBTACK

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is JUNKDRAWER. To find it, look for the J that’s five letters down on the far-left row, and wind down, over and then up.

Quick tips for Strands

#1: To get more clue words, see if you can tweak the words you’ve already found, by adding an «S» or other variants. And if you find a word like WILL, see if other letters are close enough to help you make SILL, or BILL.

#2: Once you get one theme word, look at the puzzle to see if you can spot other related words.

#3: If you’ve been given the letters for a theme word, but can’t figure it out, guess three more clue words, and the puzzle will light up each letter in order, revealing the word.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Oct. 22, #1586

Here are hints and the answer for today’s Wordle for Oct. 22, No. 1,586.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s Wordle puzzle features some letters I don’t often guess, but it’s not terribly difficult. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has one repeated letter.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with S.

Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends with T.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to an action displaying spectacular skill and daring.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is STUNT.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Oct. 21, No. 1,585 was DETOX.

Recent Wordle answers

Oct. 17, No. 1,581: GROSS
Oct. 18, No. 1,582: HAVEN
Oct. 19, No. 1,583: IDEAL
Oct. 20, No. 1,584: LIMBO

Quick tips for Wordle

#1: Check our list ranking the popularity of all the letters in the alphabet and choose your starter words accordingly. (TRAIN, STERN and AUDIO are good.)

#2: Don’t forget that letters can be used more than once.

#3: Many words are similar. You don’t want to use up multiple guesses that don’t advance your cause. So if the puzzle is STA_E, don’t guess STARE, STATE and STALE. Guess something that uses that R, T and L, like TWIRL.