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
