Both my personal device, and the iPad i tested with were shipped directly from Apple.
James On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Chris Frederick <[email protected]> wrote: > That's strange. I have an attwifi at the mall here, and the 3GS and 4S > have never auto connected to it. The only time I have ever connected > the 3GS to an attwifi was because I was getting it swapped out at the > apple store (dead battery), which was a few hours from home, so when they > gave me the new one I connected to one so I could change passwords/keys > that were stored on the dead one. I wiped the phone when I got home, > never got to try it on the mall attwifi to see if it would auto connect > now. > > One thing it could be, did you get the iPhone from apple? or from att? > The sales rep could have connected it to the store's attwifi spot for > activation without your knowledge. Other than that, I don't know why some > phones would connect, but mine don't. > > Chris > > On 01/12/12 16:42, Marshal Graham wrote: > > I'm positive that I did not have to initiate the first connection to > > attwifi. The first time I noticed it was in a McDonald's and I noticed > > it later at a Sam's Club. I have never "told" my phone to connect to > > attwifi, it does this automatically. This is pretty well confirmed > > judging by the number of devices that blindly connect to attwifi and > > the presence of an Android option to "Automatically connect to an > > available AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spot." > > > > Marshal > > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Chris Frederick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I have heard of this behavior on the iPhone, and from what I know, if > you connect to any wifi the phone will remember the ssid and the mac, if > >> it sees these in the future it will auto connect. But attwifi is > different in that it doesn't check the mac, only the ssid is needed. > >> > >> I have seen that if you do _not_ connect to any attwifi, it won't auto > connect, you need to initiate the initial connection to one. I would > >> assume that if you tell the phone to delete the connection while it's > in range, it will stop auto-connecting. > >> > >> I have a 3GS and a 4S and have tested this a bit. I've never connected > my 4S to attwifi, and it's never auto-connected, but I did on the 3GS > >> but I reset the phone before I was in range of a different attwifi spot. > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> On 01/11/12 12:54, Marshal Graham 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 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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