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Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi
Date 2016-09-16 14:40 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <160920161440069366%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <nrg3nd$e4e$1@dont-email.me> <4FVCz.2602$iM2.809@fx31.iad>

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In article <4FVCz.2602$iM2.809@fx31.iad>, John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere>
wrote:

> > I live in an area where WiFi coverage is spotty and I use googlemaps on
> > my Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) a lot.
> >
> > Rather than leave LTE on all the time, is there a way to have LTE turn
> > on automatically when I lose the WiFi signal, and turn off when a WiFi
> > signal becomes available?
> >
> >
> 
> That is the default action AFAIK but I find that the switchover is 
> sometimes _very_ slow to take place. If I'm listening to a radio stream on 
> the phone at home and then walk down to the mailbox at the street the WiFi 
> drops out when I'm maybe 50 feet down the driveway and the LTE should kick 
> in immediately but sometimes it takes literally minutes to make up its mind 
> and often I'm on the way back with the mail and I'm back in WiFi range 
> before it ever switches. I'd sure like some way to speed up the 
> decision-making process.

should be a second or two. maybe five seconds tops. certainly not
minutes.

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Auto switching between LTE and WiFi Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 02:33 -0400
  Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2016-09-16 11:52 +0300
    Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-09-16 11:53 +0100
      Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-09-16 17:50 -0500
  Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi crankypuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com> - 2016-09-16 04:54 -0600
  Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2016-09-16 13:07 -0400
    Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-16 14:40 -0400
    Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-09-17 12:36 +0100
      Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 10:08 -0400
        Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-09-17 17:09 -0500
          Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-17 18:37 -0400
  Re: Auto switching between LTE and WiFi Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-17 16:05 +0200

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