Author Topic: Whoever made carrier wifi hotspots deserves to be lynched (Read 2008 times)

beachbum111111 · March 16, 2018, 11:32:10 AM

Maybe I explained it wrong but it's those Wi-Fi hotspots that your Isps set up around big cities. Your phone will automatically connect to them but they don't have working internet so it kills any activity on your phone internet wise. They also will not let you 'forget' the network as well. Sure I can turn off the Wi-Fi on my phone every single time I use the bus on long distances but it's such a stupid loving thing and an unneeded hassle

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Rally · March 16, 2018, 11:43:05 AM

Quote from: beachbum111111 on March 16, 2018, 11:32:10 AM

I think I know what you're talking about. I think here we call it "municipal wifi" or something.

mod-man · March 16, 2018, 12:06:59 PM

Quote from: beachbum111111 on March 16, 2018, 11:32:10 AM

Maybe I explained it wrong

i was about to say

i know mobile hotspots to be the function where a person can basically make their phone give off Wi-Fi. if internet ever dies at the office one of my co-workers can turn on the hotspot function and we can have internet again by connecting to her phone. stuff has saved us so many times lol

beachbum111111 · March 16, 2018, 12:15:42 PM

Yeah mobile hotspots are great. It's this cancerous carrier wifi hotspots that are terrible

Vigil · March 16, 2018, 12:25:49 PM

>wireless WiFi
>wireless wireless fidelity

SlayerZ99 · March 16, 2018, 12:59:42 PM

Would putting the network under restricted network help?

Darth C3P0� · March 16, 2018, 01:02:46 PM

you can turn it off
I also think that you can turn off wifi to prevent it from connecting, and you should turn off wifi if your leaving the house/apartment/whatever anyways

Headcrab Zombie · March 16, 2018, 01:04:42 PM

Quote from: beachbum111111 on March 16, 2018, 11:32:10 AM

Maybe I explained it wrong but it's those Wi-Fi hotspots that your Isps set up around big cities. Your phone will automatically connect to them but they don't have working internet so it kills any activity on your phone internet wise. They also will not let you 'forget' the network as well. Sure I can turn off the Wi-Fi on my phone every single time I use the bus on long distances but it's such a stupid loving thing and an unneeded hassle

There should be a setting to specify whether or not you want to automatically connect to open networks
On my Nexus 6 it's "Use open Wi-Fi automatically" under "Configure Wi-Fi"

You can't filter it down to specific networks, but from a security standpoint, automatically connecting to unknown networks isn't something you really want at all.