Re: attwifi ssid

[James Philput <jamesphilput () gmail com>]

Both my personal device, and the iPad i tested with were shipped directly
from Apple.

James

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Chris Frederick <cdf123 () cdf123 net> wrote:

> That's strange.  I have an attwifi at the mall here, and the 3GS and 4S
> have never auto connected to it.  The only time I have ever connected
> the 3GS to an attwifi was because I was getting it swapped out at the
> apple store (dead battery), which was a few hours from home, so when they
> gave me the new one I connected to one so I could change passwords/keys
> that were stored on the dead one.  I wiped the phone when I got home,
> never got to try it on the mall attwifi to see if it would auto connect
> now.
>
> One thing it could be, did you get the iPhone from apple? or from att?
>  The sales rep could have connected it to the store's attwifi spot for
> activation without your knowledge.  Other than that, I don't know why some
> phones would connect, but mine don't.
>
> Chris
>
> On 01/12/12 16:42, Marshal Graham wrote:
> > I'm positive that I did not have to initiate the first connection to
> > attwifi. The first time I noticed it was in a McDonald's and I noticed
> > it later at a Sam's Club. I have never "told" my phone to connect to
> > attwifi, it does this automatically. This is pretty well confirmed
> > judging by the number of devices that blindly connect to attwifi and
> > the presence of an Android option to "Automatically connect to an
> > available AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spot."
> >
> > Marshal
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Chris Frederick <cdf123 () cdf123 net>
> wrote:
> > > 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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