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[Q] Driving around, you find some Comcast Wifi

So I use my girlfriends comcast Wifi because its in her neighborhood when I go to her apartment. Its great, its fast, it works all the way down the street and to the train station and then some.
Now that my phone has remembered that I connected to the Comcast Wifi there, its EVERY comcast wifi hotspot around my phone will automatically connect to. And on top of that, If I try to voice text, or navigate, and im either driving ir standing in the area with COMCAST wifi, it won't connect unless I go to the browser, and reenter in all of the information. Is there a way to keep her login information saved so that it just connects when I go to an area with comcast wifi?

justinisloco said:
So I use my girlfriends comcast Wifi because its in her neighborhood when I go to her apartment. Its great, its fast, it works all the way down the street and to the train station and then some.
Now that my phone has remembered that I connected to the Comcast Wifi there, its EVERY comcast wifi hotspot around my phone will automatically connect to. And on top of that, If I try to voice text, or navigate, and im either driving ir standing in the area with COMCAST wifi, it won't connect unless I go to the browser, and reenter in all of the information. Is there a way to keep her login information saved so that it just connects when I go to an area with comcast wifi?
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Sounds like she has some default SSID that everyone else uses, too. Just change it to something unique. Then, when you're out, ever other Comcast router with the default identifier won't fool your Bionic.

Like like LinkSys routers default to the name "linksys". Just change it to something else that nobody will have and you shouldn't have that problem anymore.

Sorry I should have been more specific...
she is actually using the outside wifi at her apartment. she doesn't have a router at her house. is there a way around this
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justinisloco said:
Sorry I should have been more specific...
she is actually using the outside wifi at her apartment. she doesn't have a router at her house. is there a way around this
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I suppose that you could try an app like Locale that can automatically turn on WiFi when you are at home and turn it off when you leave.
https://market.android.com/details?...SwxLDEsImNvbS50d29mb3J0eWZvdXJhbS5sb2NhbGUiXQ..

Verizon has a free app on the market tobtirn wifi on or off depending on where you are
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Tested WiFi Access Points/Hotspots

I see a lot of people stating they have issues with using WiFi, staying connected, Slow transmissions, dropped connections to hotspots etc... while others are not having any issues.
I'm in the group without any issues despite the fact that I use a number of access points throughout the day both at home and at work.
I think some of the slowness issues that some are having is more due to their network access rather than the actually WiFi device they are connecting to but others seem to be having real connectivity issues.
Since I have a number of Access Points here at the house, I have been doing some testing to see if I had any specific issues with any of them.
For reference, I have a fairly fast network connection. I have a Cox Business network connection (50MB/5MB - 16 IP block) so there is plenty of network speed to eliminate the network access as a slowness factor. I was able to also isolate some of the Access Points to IP's that are not being used by any other devices. Note that I use different channels for most of these Access points so they don't interfer with each other much.
While I can see neighbor access points, they are all low enough not to be an issue.
I didn't see any slowness with services like YouTube, HuluPlus, Netflix or Internet browsing with any of these. I didn't lose connections to any of them either while the device was "sleeping", and continued to get pushed email (Touchdown to work) while connected to them all.
Below are the 5 access points and the 1 Hotspot I tested...
Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N - SSID: Brutus
Protocol: WPA2 PSK AES
This my residential router that the rest of the family uses and the primary access point that I use for my phones and my Nexus 7 most of the time.
DLink DAP-1522 - SSID: TVGuy
Protocol: WPA/WPA2 AES
This is actually setup as a Bridge between the Buffalo and the TV area. I connected to this just to give another test point. The Nexus 7 doesn't see the 5GHz bands on this as it doesn't support it. I tested this connection for about 6 hours without any issues.
TRENDnet TEW-432BRP Smurf Router - SSID: Bizhub
Protocol: WPA2/PKS AES
This is a CHEAP router, blue like a Smurf. This is on the business side for testing. I've had attacks on this router by someone who thought it was really a printer. I use this connection a lot to access the business side which is separated from the Residential side. Have many many hours of connections with this very cheap router without any issues.
Netgear WNDR3700v2 - SSID: Disconnected
Protocol: WPA/WPA2 PSK
This is the same router we use at work, throughout the building linked to the same SSID. This is going to replace the Buffalo Access point eventually when I get more time, but right now is setup for testing. The Nexus 7 doesn't see the 5GHz bands on this as it doesn't support it. I used this for about 4 hours without any issues.
Linksys WRT54G - SSID: RouterT11
Protocol: WPA/TKIP
This was an unused router that I have not used for a couple years. I plugged it in, and set it up to give this old warhorse a try with the Nexus 7. No real issues except locating the power supply for it, was in the wrong box. I just got done using this for about 7 hours including overnight without any issues.
Samsung SCH-LC11 LTE 4G WiFi Hotspot
Protocol: WPA2 AES 3G/4G Device
I carry this with me to provide WiFi Internet access when I am away from the office or home and need a high speed connection for various devices that will work with WiFi. The Nexus 7 works pretty good with this getting speeds up to about 8MB when in 4G mode. 3G mode is a bit dismal but then it is 3G and it is dismal with all devices I use with it when it is in that mode.
I didn't have the WiFi connection drop on this connection using the Nexus 7. I have the hotspot setup to not timeout devices or its connection and so far, I've not had it drop a connection when working properly, but I haven't let it go for hours on end either. So not a really extensive test. It has a battery life of about 4 hours unless it gets a power source.
HTC Rezound Tethering
This is my current phone. I really didn't test tethering to it because it doesn't work real well with this yet. Since I carry a HotSpot device, I have not had any real pressure to look into this.
Other Devices/Access Points
What have others tested with success or issues?

[Q] Log wifi connection

I need to find an app that will log when my phone is connected to a wifi and when it is connected to at&t.
My Exede internet provider claims that I have a solid connection, yet, my phone spends a lot of time on AT&T connection while I am within range of my home router. I will also find a program that will work on windows and plug a laptop directly into the modem so I can eliminate router problems.
Thanks

akdale said:
I need to find an app that will log when my phone is connected to a wifi and when it is connected to at&t.
My Exede internet provider claims that I have a solid connection, yet, my phone spends a lot of time on AT&T connection while I am within range of my home router. I will also find a program that will work on windows and plug a laptop directly into the modem so I can eliminate router problems.
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You don't need a program to do that, you need a length of Ethernet cable with connectors on the ends. Unless your laptop is really old it has an Ethernet jack. Just plug the cable into that, and plug the other end of the cable into the modem. Or plug it into one of the connectors on the router if it's just a wifi issue. You have 3 options - wifi, Ethernet connection to the router or Ethernet connection to the modem. Windows will grab an IP address from the router if you're doing it that way (wired or wifi) or from your provider (if you connect to the modem). How connecting the laptop to the modem will eliminate problems with the phone is something I'm confused about, unless you're going to use the laptop as a wifi hotspot for the phone. That's a program I can't help you with. I did an exhaustive search for that kind of setup about 2 years ago, and there was no cheap way to do it. (There's a company that has a box and software, but if you think a Note 3 bought outright is more than pocket change ... $5,000? $6,000? Something in that neighborhood.)
As far as your other problem - the phone not getting wifi from your router? (Whether your internet connection to the router is solid or not has nothing to do with whether the phone is connecting to the router via wifi. I can connect to a wifi router that's not connected to the internet at all. It'll cause "unable to connect" type messages from every app that needs an internet connection, but it'll still be connected to the router.
So, there are a few things you need to figure out. Try Data ON-Off, a free app for the phone. That will allow you to turn your AT&T (3G/4G) data off so, good signal from wifi or not, your phone won't use AT&T.
Use Wifi Analytics (another free app) to ssee what's going on there. If there a few wifi signals on the same channel as yours, you may be getting so much interference that the phone can't see your router's signal and drops that connection. (Changing channels on the router depends on which router you have, but it's in the wifi section and it's simple - usually just a dropdown for channel number. Wifi Analytics lists the channels as poor, good and best based on what signals are on what channel. Use one of the ones marked best, or at least good.)
It also depends on what's between you and the router. In my last house, if I was on the deck and someone turned on the microwave, I lost the internet. The physical path from my seat on the deck to the router passed right through the microwave. Little metal box, not much signal loss. But when it was running it wasn't a little metal box, it was a huge 2.4GHz transmitter, transmitting (as far as wifi is concerned) garbage and noise. I didn't mind 30 or 60 seconds of loss of signal, I'd just refresh the page when the microwave was done. But my wife, who plays WoW, would want to get safe before I ran the microwave. 5 seconds of no signal and you can get killed there. (She may be the only player ever on WoW who died when she was dead. Something like she got killed PvP at the edge of a lake, fell in and drowned. Drowned while she was already dead.) If the path from your phone to your router is through a lot of walls, that's a problem too. Each piece of sheet rock only absorbs a little signal, but a few walls together can kill it. Same thing if the path is through a large piece of metal, like a refrigerator. Or if your router antenna is vertical and you're on the floor above it. (Antennas shoot at right angles to their axes.)
This is the kind of thing that drives microwave engineers mad. If you're going for minimum power needed for the path loss, and you didn't notice that tree in the path in December, come May when the tree has leaves you lose the signal, and thousands of customers scream. Oops. (It's also why some satellite TV systems don't work very well when it's pouring rain. They didn't calculate the additional path loss. "It never rains, does it?")
But understand, the strength of your internet signal (Exede to your modem) has nothing to do with the strength of the signal from your router to your phone over wifi. Think of a radio station. The announcer is so close to the mic that his lips are touching it, and he's shouting. But you're MANY miles away and can barely hear the station through the static. Or, the other way around, you live right near the transmitter, but the announcer is in the room next to the mic and he's mumbling. In each case one part of the "signal path" (which included announcer to mic and transmitter to receiver) is good but the other one isn't. Your Exede to modem path is good, but something between there and the phone is bad.
So if you still want to use wifi from your router, you may now have enough information to figure out why it's not solid connection, and maybe enough to change what needs to be changed to make it work. (Moving 2 feet left [or whatever] may be enough to increase the signal enough to give you a solid connection on wifi if, looking from where the phone isn't working well to the router [with X-Ray eyes], you see a refrigerator or something..)

Thanks very much for the in depth reply.
Unfortunately I was not very clear with my question.
I have not had any problem with my router talking to my cell phones or with my laptops through LAN.
I have an intermittent connection to the internet.
Originally, my router was hooked up to an ADSL modem. Everything worked great.
Had to change providers to Exede (Sat. dish Internet provider)
Started having intermittent connection to the internet. (Not weather related)
Exede tells me that they do not show any dropped connections to their modem.
When I disconnect from Exede, and hook back up to the ADSL, the intermittent connection problem to the WAN goes away and works as it should.
Looking for an app for my cellphone that will log when the phone changes from access to internet through my LAN, to access through AT&T.
Also, I am looking for a shareware/freeware program for my laptop that will log when its internet connection is dropped.
Thanks

Share LTE connection via Tmobile tm-ac1900 router?

I'm between Internet providers at my house. I have the Tmobile tm-ac1900 router (the one made by asus).
Is it possible to somehow share my phones LTE connection thru the router to my LAN?
I thought that was an option of the router but I can't figure it out.
I hope this questions reads clearly.
Basic terms: house Internet is out, I want to use my phone LTE connection to supply Internet to my LAN through the router... So I would assume connect my phones wifi tethering somehow to the router as the WAN so it would supply Internet to my hardwired devices to the router.
Thanks in advance.

Maybe, pay your phone bill?

I would say no cause I don't see that on my router
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Araltd said:
I'm between Internet providers at my house. I have the Tmobile tm-ac1900 router (the one made by asus).
Is it possible to somehow share my phones LTE connection thru the router to my LAN?
I thought that was an option of the router but I can't figure it out.
I hope this questions reads clearly.
Basic terms: house Internet is out, I want to use my phone LTE connection to supply Internet to my LAN through the router... So I would assume connect my phones wifi tethering somehow to the router as the WAN so it would supply Internet to my hardwired devices to the router.
Thanks in advance.
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You can try with a microUSB to USB cable. Under Setting / Tethering and Mobile Hotspot, there is the option to use USB tethering. I have never used USB tethering but it's worth a try. It all depends if the router can take an "internet" connection through USB...most common routers take a cable, RJ45 or RJ11 connection.

LOL... I'd actually have to pay my CABLE bill, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.
I was so sure I saw that option somewhere, to be able to share your LTE/mobile data connection with your local network? Of course I didn't care when I read it (or mis-read it as it were) and of course I can't find it now.
I've been using a USB wifi adapter and mobile tethering which works fine, but only for a single machine at a time.... and now that I have unlimited data - I'd like to use it, at least until I pay my cable bill anyway

You need something like that
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Question 5ghz wifi problem

Hi - I recently updated my OP10Pro 5G to the NE2215_11_C26 update, OOS13, US,, and my 5ghz wifi is now really slow - 40-50mbps down - unless I toggle wifi or airplane mode. Speed goes back up to normal, then goes down and stays there. Other devices in 802.11ac work just fine on the 5ghz band
Any idea what's going on?
Thanks

ayoldguy1 said:
Hi - I recently updated my OP10Pro 5G to the NE2215_11_C26 update, OOS13, US,, and my 5ghz wifi is now really slow - 40-50mbps down - unless I toggle wifi or airplane mode. Speed goes back up to normal, then goes down and stays there. Other devices in 802.11ac work just fine on the 5ghz band
Any idea what's going on?
Thanks
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I had exactly the same problem and went through a "chat session" with OnePlus support about two weeks ago. I was asked to send my phone in for "repairs". The way their agent responded to my issue suggested that it is a common problem.
Edit: Sorry, my phone was running OOS 12 at the time I experienced the problem. I don't recall the build number and I don't have the phone now, so I can't check.
So, my phone has been "under repair" now for two weeks. No status update, no idea when it might be repaired or replaced. Meanwhile, I'm using my previous phone, a Moto One Ace 5G, and wondering why I bought the OnePlus at all.

ayoldguy1 said:
Hi - I recently updated my OP10Pro 5G to the NE2215_11_C26 update, OOS13, US,, and my 5ghz wifi is now really slow - 40-50mbps down - unless I toggle wifi or airplane mode. Speed goes back up to normal, then goes down and stays there. Other devices in 802.11ac work just fine on the 5ghz band
Any idea what's going on?
Thanks
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Did you check the negotiate speed?
Have a look with WiFi Monitor, ight shed some light.

maddler said:
Did you check the negotiate speed?
Have a look with WiFi Monitor, ight shed some light.
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I think I figured out my problem. I have Verizon FiOS, and have a G1000 Quantum Gateway AC router and the matching extender. The extender had the same SSID for the 5ghz band as the main router .. so the phone would hang on to the router or extender no matter where I moved in the house, no matter whether I checked the "switch Wifi to stronger network" box. I created a 'sub' SSID, and now the phone will (usually) switch to the stronger network, and seems to work ok.
I didn't have this with my AC Wifi OnePlus 7 Pro, or with my AX laptop. But this did seem to fix the issue with the OP10. I wonder if the new FiOS wifi 6e router + new extender would work better with my 10 Pro if extender is broadcasting same SSID?

i lost wifi 6

ayoldguy1 said:
I think I figured out my problem. I have Verizon FiOS, and have a G1000 Quantum Gateway AC router and the matching extender. The extender had the same SSID for the 5ghz band as the main router .. so the phone would hang on to the router or extender no matter where I moved in the house, no matter whether I checked the "switch Wifi to stronger network" box. I created a 'sub' SSID, and now the phone will (usually) switch to the stronger network, and seems to work ok.
I didn't have this with my AC Wifi OnePlus 7 Pro, or with my AX laptop. But this did seem to fix the issue with the OP10. I wonder if the new FiOS wifi 6e router + new extender would work better with my 10 Pro if extender is broadcasting same SSID?
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As long as the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands will share the same SSID that's l;ikely the phone will pick the one with the "strongest signal".
If you want to make sure to always connect to the 5GHz one, using a different SSID is the only option. Doesn't really matter which AP/router/repeater/extender you use.
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g96818 said:
i lost wifi 6
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Check under the couch, that's always there!

maddler said:
As long as the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands will share the same SSID that's l;ikely the phone will pick the one with the "strongest signal".
If you want to make sure to always connect to the 5GHz one, using a different SSID is the only option. Doesn't really matter which AP/router/repeater/extender you use.
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Yea.. the issue was that I had the 5ghz band on the SAME SSID being broadcast by both router and extender.. forgetting the 2.4ghz didn't do anything, nor did ensuring that the "switch to stronger Wifi network" toggle was on. My OP10Pro would connect to the router's 5ghz signal when entering the house, then stay on it when moving around the house without switching to the stronger 5ghz signal with same SSID emitted by the extender. By creating TWO 5ghz SSIDs, one for router and one for extender, the OP10Pro now - usually, it isn't perfect - switches between the router/extender 5ghz SSIDs depending on the signal strength, though Android13's cutoff for defining "weak signal" seems either arbitrary or very forgiving. I'm wondering if Verizon's new Wifi 6E router + extender will fix this issue and allow me to just clone the SSID on both devices.. i read somewhere that wifi 6 and 6e devices can do this natively.. not sure as I'm a novice at best at networking. Thanks.

ayoldguy1 said:
Yea.. the issue was that I had the 5ghz band on the SAME SSID being broadcast by both router and extender.. forgetting the 2.4ghz didn't do anything, nor did ensuring that the "switch to stronger Wifi network" toggle was on. My OP10Pro would connect to the router's 5ghz signal when entering the house, then stay on it when moving around the house without switching to the stronger 5ghz signal with same SSID emitted by the extender. By creating TWO 5ghz SSIDs, one for router and one for extender, the OP10Pro now - usually, it isn't perfect - switches between the router/extender 5ghz SSIDs depending on the signal strength, though Android13's cutoff for defining "weak signal" seems either arbitrary or very forgiving. I'm wondering if Verizon's new Wifi 6E router + extender will fix this issue and allow me to just clone the SSID on both devices.. i read somewhere that wifi 6 and 6e devices can do this natively.. not sure as I'm a novice at best at networking. Thanks.
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Other than the actual "sensibility", that's not a 10pro specific issue.
2.4 and 5 GHz bands will behave differently and the phone will "perceive" one or the other as the best choice based on various factors and the overall quality of the signal.
I had the very same issue on my laptop.

OnePlus support had my phone for 3 weeks to fix my 5G wifi speed problem. They report that they replaced the motherboard under warranty and the phone has been shipped back to me. I should have it in a couple days and will certainly test to confirm that 5G wifi speed is similar to other devices connected to my network.
I've defined separate SSIDs for 2.4g and 5g wifi in my gateway, so I can control which SSID I connect to. 2.4g was always consistent with other devices connected at 2.4g. The problem with my phone was related only to 5g.

FrogFan said:
OnePlus support had my phone for 3 weeks to fix my 5G wifi speed problem. They report that they replaced the motherboard under warranty and the phone has been shipped back to me. I should have it in a couple days and will certainly test to confirm that 5G wifi speed is similar to other devices connected to my network.
I've defined separate SSIDs for 2.4g and 5g wifi in my gateway, so I can control which SSID I connect to. 2.4g was always consistent with other devices connected at 2.4g. The problem with my phone was related only to 5g.
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I received my "fixed" phone about a week ago now and I've been monitoring its wifi performance. Bottom line: 5G has been generally slow, much slower than my laptop or my Moto Ace 5G, but the speed is highly variable and quite fast sometimes. I just ran Speedtest on my laptop and OnePlus. Both were connected to the same 5G SSID. The laptop performance was 304 mbps down, 172 mbps up. The OnePlus performance was 48 mbps down, 205 mbps up.
I switched both the phone and the laptop to my 2.4G SSID. Laptop performance was 43 mbps down and 15 up. Phone performance was 116 mbps down and 88 mbps up.
After the 2.4G test, I switched the phone and the laptop back to the 5G SSID and immediately retested wifi speed. I observed performance of 339 mbps down and 373 mbps up on the phone. The laptop speed was 248 mbps down and 148 mbps up.
I know that my gateway broadcasts 5G on two different channels for the same SSID and I have no control over what channels it picks. Maybe the phone picks a congested channel sometimes and the slow observed speeds are due to that, whereas the laptop (and the Moto Ace) always seem to pick the less congested channel?
The other thing I read about was "randomized MAC address" versus "device MAC address" and someone, somewhere (I don't remember where) suggested that using device MAC address resulted in improved speed. I just made that switch for the 5G SSID. Speed is very good now, and I'll monitor it to see if it slows over time.
Sorry for the long message, but I'm thinking that the "fix" really did nothing to improve 5G wifi performance and there is something not quite right about the OnePlus's handling of 5G wifi.