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!
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!