Re: attwifi ssid

[James Philput <jamesphilput () gmail com>]

I've seen it happen a few times with my iPhone 4, generally at or near a
Barnes and Noble or Starbucks.  I found that I couldn't find the settings
for that network unless I was connected to it.  Then, I could go into
wireless settings, and tell my phone not to automatically connect to the
attwifi SSID.  Oddly, I didn't see the usual "Forget this network" button
for that network.

Regards,
James

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:

> On 11 January 2012 18:54, Marshal Graham <marshal.graham () gmail com> 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
>
> I've not seen this but I'll make sure that I tell Bob to watch out for
> it as he runs Karma while travelling around at the end of the month.
>
> Robin
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