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Originally Posted by ming
Ok, that's the other thing. About a dozen people at my company bought the iPhone. One of their main rationales was the claim that the iPhone would automatically connect to WiFi when available instead of EDGE. And since the city of LA is pretty much competely covered in WiFi they thought they would always be connected at high speed. So far this claim appears to be BS. They all had trouble connecting to the WiFi network at work, and walking down the street the iPhone had trouble locating and/or connecting to hardly any WiFi networks. We tested this on about a dozen iPhones for most of the day. The majority of the time download speeds hovered around 64-100kbits/sec. We hung out in a Cafe that advertised free WiFi and none of the iPhones could locate it. I know this is anecdotal, but the sample size is significant.
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Sounds like they don't understand how it's intended to work. It automatically connects to WiFi routers that you have
previously connected to. So it won't automatically connect to random open WiFi routers it's never connected to before. However, if it has connected to that wireless hotspot before, it'll pick it up and automatically connect.
So if you connected to your home WiFi network. Left for work, switched to EDGE during the day, then came home, it will recognize and rejoin your network automatically with no prompting. Same thing if you power it off then back on. As soon as it sees a hotspot it recognizes, it will connect automatically.
That's how it's been working in East Lansing anyway.
I'm not sure you'd want it connecting to any random hotspot you haven't specifically chosen anyway.