On 11 January 2012 20:19, James Philput <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You can only remove an SSID on the iPhone when it is in range, if you can't see it you can't forget it. This makes testing my Karma stuff a nightmare, my iPhone is constantly probing for all sorts of SSIDs after testing and I've got to get them all up and running to remove them again. Robin > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
