WLAN networks with same names [duplicate]
asked 2014-10-06 13:48:00 +0200
There is this problem I didn't report before (because there are so many other important issues) but it is really annoying. I don't know if this is normal behaviour, but I did not experience this with Nokia N9 or Symbian phones.
I have a saved network from a friends home called "linksys". When I am out and connected to mobile data, wherever I go if a WLAN network with the same name exists (and there are obviously a lot of "linksys" called networks, people just don't change the default name), Jolla tries to connect to it and then the famous connection question pops up as it cannot connect (select internet connection: mobile data or wlan).
Of course, I could ask my friend to rename his network, but I was just wondering if this is a bug as I don't find this to be normal behaviour for a phone.
there is no app for stupid people, you can tell them all day long that it is pretty stupid to not change an ssid/default-password or even have no password set at all - but people or in specific the whatsapp-generation - plug it in and it works -> don't care that it might cost you your freedom someday; those will always make you regret knowing them at some point -> only sane thing to do is: ask your friend to change the ssid or if he is like the others, connect to the router's web-interface try the default password for that router and change it yourself - and yes this is the desired behaviour for any device -> try to connect to known networks - if it fails ask for new password
chemist ( 2014-10-06 13:58:34 +0200 )editwhy not simply keep the old connection (mobile data) until the new connection (wifi) is established and working?
till ( 2014-10-06 16:47:23 +0200 )editI didn't realize until now that it was the "same" name" that was triggering an attempt to login to public wifi network (and results in mutliple network errors, up to almost unusable device)... Thanks for the info .
alci ( 2014-10-06 17:44:01 +0200 )edit@chemist :) good point with the whatsapp-generation... Still, do you think that Jolla should behave like that (do other phones?), I guess what @till said is exactly how it should happen: keep the old connection until the new connection is established and working, what happens at the moment in these situations is not logical at all.
Neo ( 2014-10-06 19:46:22 +0200 )editthat is a connman feature (can be turned off and I do not know what funny things happen then) only one connection at a time - most devices I know work exactly like that, as soon as a wlan ssid is known it connects to it and disconnects mdata to prevent malfunctioning routing
chemist ( 2014-10-06 19:58:38 +0200 )edit