I've seen it happen a few times with my iPhone 4, generally at or near a Barnes and Noble or Starbucks. I found that I couldn't find the settings for that network unless I was connected to it. Then, I could go into wireless settings, and tell my phone not to automatically connect to the attwifi SSID. Oddly, I didn't see the usual "Forget this network" button for that network.
Regards, James On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 January 2012 18:54, Marshal Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is an issue I just recently became aware of. I did a little > > research and was not able to discover much related to this. If it's > > already been discussed, I'll apologize in advance. AT&T smartphones > > will automatically connect to a ssid of attwifi. Several people have > > verified this by simply setting a ssid of attwifi with no encryption. > > We have seen iPhone 4, Android, and Blackberry devices from AT&T > > connect this way. It was also reported that AT&T 3G iPad/iPad2 devices > > do this as well. On the Motorola Atrix, the AT&T logo appear to > > indicate you are connected to an AT&T hot spot. iPhone 3GS does not > > appear to exhibit this behavior. > > > > At least some Android devices do have an option to disable this > > behavior through the settings menu. Aside from disabling wifi, I > > cannot find this option on iPhone or Blackberry. To be clear, this is > > AT&T specific. A little Google searching revealed this from May 2011, > > > http://gobitech.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-recently-decided-to-conduct-little.html > , > > but not much else. Either this is not as much of an issue as I think > > it might be or it has just been ignored. It would seem to fall into > > the same category as using a ssid of linksys or Free Public WiFi. This > > could be a little worse since at least some devices give you an > > indication you are connecting to a real AT&T hotspot. Anyone have > > thoughts about this? > > > > To make sure I give proper attribution, this was originally pointed > > out to me by Mark Rupright. > > > > Marshal > > I've not seen this but I'll make sure that I tell Bob to watch out for > it as he runs Karma while travelling around at the end of the month. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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