Re: attwifi ssid

[Chris Frederick <cdf123 () cdf123 net>]

I have heard of this behavior on the iPhone, and from what I know, if you connect to any wifi the phone will remember 
the ssid and the mac, if
it sees these in the future it will auto connect.  But attwifi is different in that it doesn't check the mac, only the 
ssid is needed.

I have seen that if you do _not_ connect to any attwifi, it won't auto connect, you need to initiate the initial 
connection to one.  I would
assume that if you tell the phone to delete the connection while it's in range, it will stop auto-connecting.

I have a 3GS and a 4S and have tested this a bit.  I've never connected my 4S to attwifi, and it's never 
auto-connected, but I did on the 3GS
but I reset the phone before I was in range of a different attwifi spot.

Chris

On 01/11/12 12:54, Marshal Graham wrote:
> Here is an issue I just recently became aware of. I did a little
> research and was not able to discover much related to this. If it's
> already been discussed, I'll apologize in advance. AT&T smartphones
> will automatically connect to a ssid of attwifi. Several people have
> verified this by simply setting a ssid of attwifi with no encryption.
> We have seen iPhone 4, Android, and Blackberry devices from AT&T
> connect this way. It was also reported that AT&T 3G iPad/iPad2 devices
> do this as well. On the Motorola Atrix, the AT&T logo appear to
> indicate you are connected to an AT&T hot spot. iPhone 3GS does not
> appear to exhibit this behavior.
>
> At least some Android devices do have an option to disable this
> behavior through the settings menu. Aside from disabling wifi, I
> cannot find this option on iPhone or Blackberry. To be clear, this is
> AT&T specific. A little Google searching revealed this from May 2011,
> http://gobitech.blogspot.com/2011/05/i-recently-decided-to-conduct-little.html,
> but not much else. Either this is not as much of an issue as I think
> it might be or it has just been ignored. It would seem to fall into
> the same category as using a ssid of linksys or Free Public WiFi. This
> could be a little worse since at least some devices give you an
> indication you are connecting to a real AT&T hotspot. Anyone have
> thoughts about this?
>
> To make sure I give proper attribution, this was originally pointed
> out to me by Mark Rupright.
>
> Marshal
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