It’s cool, but it’s not cool. Let me give you a not cool instance. Say I have a work laptop on my apple account as well as my others. My work has a policy where work laptops connect to the internal WiFi and are authenticated via complex certificate system. For your personal devices we have a bring your own device network which is just pure internet no access to secure resources and that broadcasts around the building for your personal gear. Now let’s say you join both networks, some with your work devices and some with your personal iPhone and watch etc. So now you walk in for the morning, open your work laptop and it tries to connect to the public network because it picks that up first, regardless of where you move it in the list. so then your authentication fails. But wait there’s more. Now your non work device tries to join the super secure inside WiFi and just hangs because it doesn’t have the certificate to authenticate. Now all you need to do to fix this is take your devices and just connect each to the network you want and or don’t use WiFi and use the cell network which is also repeated through out the building so connectivity and signal level is not an issue. Either way though it’s not perfect. It is nice though for example on a home network to add one device and see the rest join. So call it as in all things, a mixed bag depending on your environment.
On Mar 28, 2016, at 11:16 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wifi networks sync across devices now? 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