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A day at the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World can bring out the inner child in anyone ?whether you are three years old or 90. You can spend an entire day at the Magic Kingdom Park and still not experience all the attractions the park has to offer.

Divided into several lands?the park immerses you in the total Disney experience. From the nostalgia of Main Street, with its old fashioned cinema, city hall and ice cream parlor ?to the ever-popular Fantasyland, where Dumbo takes Flight and Its a Small World enjoys its endless refrain? The Magic Kingdom continues to be the most popular of all the Walt Disney World Parks.

Frequent Disney travelers often debate their Magic Kingdom favorites, but many of the parks original attractions still are the most popular. In Adventureland, visiting the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction will bring you face to face with a band of ruthless pirates as they take over a seaport town. As you travel to Frontierland you will encounter two of the parks three mountains ?Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain. Both attractions offer big thrills for the entire family. In Fantasyland, every child will get to experience one favorite attraction to the next. From sharing an adventure with Winnie-the-Pooh, to flying over London with Peter Pan, the land is full of family favorite attractions. Tomorrowland brings you into the future as you blast off in Space Mountain, or fight the Evil Emperor Zurg with Buzz Lightyear.

In addition to the parks attractions the Magic Kingdom is filled with a variety of shows, dining options, and character greetings. The shows include daily parades, fireworks, and famous Disney characters performing for you. Dining choices range from full-scale sit down dining to fast food for on-the-go park visitors. Character greetings are face to face meetings with the Disney characters, including all your favorites. You will see the Disney Princesses, Villains and even the classic favorites, Minnie, Mickey, Donald and Goofy.

The Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World is truly a Magical vacation destination. It is no wonder it continues to attract millions of visitors each year. Every visitor has their own opinion on why they love the Magic Kingdom, and its not hard to understand why people keep returning for a visit to the Happiest Place on Earth.

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Jennifer Conner is the author of the Mouse Manual a Walt Disney World Travel Guide (http://www.mousemanual.com). She and her family have vacationed at Walt Disney World every year for the past 7 years.

posted by adsl26862  # 11:20 PM 0 comments

How is "an expensive frame relay type service to the internet" different than a "less expensive plain T1 to the internet"....AND how are either of these different from a private line or point-to-point T1?

Here's my opinion......

Don't worry about the technology difference between frame relay and a plain T1....or either of these and a private line or point to point T1.

A frame T1 runs at just about the same speed as a point to point T1. Much more important to worry about is what's on the other end of the circuit. If the other end of the circuit is the internet backbone, and you have 1.5M throughput to the backbone, then that's a "dedicated" connection, the best grade of service you can get. If the other end of the circuit is to a carrier's serving office, or DSLAM, or aggregation point, then the 1.5M throughput is to their equipment, not to the internet backbone, and you have a "shared" connection. A shared connection means that your provider has arranged for a bulk internet connection from a larger carrier and it splits some out for you -- but rarely do they split out your bandwidth only for you.

For example a shared provider might buy a wholesale DS-3 from Global Crossing. A DS-3 is the equivalent of 28 T1 circuits. The shared ISP would try to have many customers sharing that T1 circuit, much more than 28 customers -- that's how they make money.

Same thing with phone systems -- you might have twenty extension phones in your office, but only 5 phone lines with the phone company. This recognizes that not all users need to use the phone at the same time.

In the internet world, shared ISPs are betting that not all customers need their full bandwidth at the same time. If a shared provider pays $6000 per month for a DS-3, and sells T1s for $300/month, they break even at 20 customers. ISPs will oversell their bandwidth because not all customers need their full bandwidth at all times. If you've been reading this message for the past 15 seconds, and your PC is doing nothing else, you haven't used your bandwidth for the past now 20 seconds.

Now.....if you need the internet circuit for email, and looking at web pages, and research, a shared T1 connection is fine. But if you're running time sensitive or bandwidth hogging applications like hosting a website at your location, or if you're running VOIP applications, or streaming audio or video, or controlling machinery remotely ... then a shared T1 connection will be a big PIA (pain in the *&!) at some point during the month when the other customers will be sucking up all the bandwidth leaving you with less than you are paying for.

So don't worry about the technology of the access circuit, worry about what's on the other end. If you can get away with a shared T1 connection, you'll save some loot. If you have critical applications, then your life will be filled with drama until you get a dedicated T1 connection.

Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications....including DS3-Bandwidth.com and Business-VoIP-Solution.com. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, insights, and ramblings for the masses.

posted by adsl26862  # 9:49 PM 0 comments

How is "an expensive frame relay type service to the internet" different than a "less expensive plain T1 to the internet"....AND how are either of these different from a private line or point-to-point T1?

Here's my opinion......

Don't worry about the technology difference between frame relay and a plain T1....or either of these and a private line or point to point T1.

A frame T1 runs at just about the same speed as a point to point T1. Much more important to worry about is what's on the other end of the circuit. If the other end of the circuit is the internet backbone, and you have 1.5M throughput to the backbone, then that's a "dedicated" connection, the best grade of service you can get. If the other end of the circuit is to a carrier's serving office, or DSLAM, or aggregation point, then the 1.5M throughput is to their equipment, not to the internet backbone, and you have a "shared" connection. A shared connection means that your provider has arranged for a bulk internet connection from a larger carrier and it splits some out for you -- but rarely do they split out your bandwidth only for you.

For example a shared provider might buy a wholesale DS-3 from Global Crossing. A DS-3 is the equivalent of 28 T1 circuits. The shared ISP would try to have many customers sharing that T1 circuit, much more than 28 customers -- that's how they make money.

Same thing with phone systems -- you might have twenty extension phones in your office, but only 5 phone lines with the phone company. This recognizes that not all users need to use the phone at the same time.

In the internet world, shared ISPs are betting that not all customers need their full bandwidth at the same time. If a shared provider pays $6000 per month for a DS-3, and sells T1s for $300/month, they break even at 20 customers. ISPs will oversell their bandwidth because not all customers need their full bandwidth at all times. If you've been reading this message for the past 15 seconds, and your PC is doing nothing else, you haven't used your bandwidth for the past now 20 seconds.

Now.....if you need the internet circuit for email, and looking at web pages, and research, a shared T1 connection is fine. But if you're running time sensitive or bandwidth hogging applications like hosting a website at your location, or if you're running VOIP applications, or streaming audio or video, or controlling machinery remotely ... then a shared T1 connection will be a big PIA (pain in the *&!) at some point during the month when the other customers will be sucking up all the bandwidth leaving you with less than you are paying for.

So don't worry about the technology of the access circuit, worry about what's on the other end. If you can get away with a shared T1 connection, you'll save some loot. If you have critical applications, then your life will be filled with drama until you get a dedicated T1 connection.

Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications....including DS3-Bandwidth.com and Business-VoIP-Solution.com. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, insights, and ramblings for the masses.

posted by adsl26862  # 2:30 AM 0 comments