Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: why won't it use data if wifi is bad? Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 10:53:58 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <56sp2ktup5ihqj1aahvqdj71nvd9nri5v7@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 0au23KtWS/XAa6plJi3ZZASmGY0hf8t2hIgwqzpWl7UdKalHPT Cancel-Lock: sha1:A+GGHsG80j2qsA0YpcjXmCT2Saw= sha256:t1IeAWGrC4Sqlqtb+/bWIpbFSSPzcr+BwtE0A/5tHeU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: <56sp2ktup5ihqj1aahvqdj71nvd9nri5v7@4ax.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:148546 On 2025-05-20 23:24, micky wrote: > A while back I was sitting by a window and still could not download a > whole webpage on my phone. > > Today, in a different location I was sitting by a window and again > couldn't download anything. > > I turned off wifi and then everything worked. > > Long ago I set the phone so that if there were wifi, it would use use > wifi instead of costly data. Who wouldn't want that? Doesn't everyone > use that? > > But I assumed if there were no good wifi, it would switch back to data. > is that unreasonable? That's a costly choice, so it is manual. People would assume that WiFi is working at home and do a big download, and later have a surprise with the invoice. > > What's going on here? > > In the windowshade, for wifi it said Xfinity, but i'm not eligible for > that and even if I were, I hadn't put in the password. Is the phone so > stupid that it counts that as having wifi? No, if there is no wifi for which you have credentials in the area, it should use data. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.