I'll try again next time I'm in range of one, but as I recall there wasn't an option to forget the attwifi said the last time I was connected to it. I do remember finding that odd though.
James Sent from my phone. On Jan 11, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
