This is one of those things that has driven me CRAZY throughout the years. Let me explain with two scenarios:
1) I'm in another country roaming, so when I get to the hotel in my room I connect to the hotel's Wi-Fi so I'm not using my data. I use the typical hotel internet browser login screen to connect. The internet is good for 24 hours. 25 hours later, I'm in the hotel. My Wi-Fi is still connected, however my user session has expired. The phone doesn't drop back to LTE. Instead, nothing works, and I'm still connected to Wi-Fi. Eventually when I realize I'm not getting messages, I go to the browser and reconnect. If only the phone realized the data stopped flowing through Wi-Fi, it could have dropped me back to LTE which would have been a preferred user experience (it could notify me that this happened).
2) When I'm at home in my condo, I have great Wi-Fi. But when I got out the back door and I'm sitting in my car before I go, or maybe I'm going for a walk and I'm a block away, I still am connected to my Wi-Fi network, but at both these points the bandwidth getting through is almost non existent. The data is SLOW. The Wi-Fi connection is still there and reasonably strong - just no data is flowing. When I realize this I turn off Wi-Fi and immediately LTE kicks in and data is fast again.
So that's my issue. Questions are:
1) Am I understanding the issue here correctly?
2) Is there a way to get the iPhone to just drop these bunk Wi-Fi connections and automatically switch to carrier network?
3) If not native, are there apps that monitor this and do it for you? Any recommended ones?
Thanks iMore!
07-27-2015 07:02 PM