Regularly as I’m leaving my home or my two stores where I often use Wifi because of poor reception I have to switch OFF my WiFi on my mobile phone because it just churns and churns trying to use the weak signal when I do a search or use google maps or something. Why is this? I don’t understand how a technology like a mobile phone made in 2019 or 2020 or later cannot regularly “test” other channels of bandwidth to make sure it’s using the most efficient one.
I promise this isn’t meant to be a tech support question. I feel like there is a universal reason for this that just hasn’t been explained well yet or something. This is something that seems to have always existed no matter what phone I use and a lot of other people I know have the same experience. I’m thinking there has to be a simple explanation and that it’s not just something wrong with my phone.
Note: Before anybody brings it up, yes eventually if I go far enough away it will start using my 4G service. However, if in my travels I end up being close to my internet service providers many hotspots, it will try to use that and all of a sudden my searches start to take forever or don’t work because, again, it appears that it doesn’t mind that the WiFi signal is very weak and slow while it would be much quicker if it just stayed on the 4G.
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they can. iOS calls this setting “wifi assist” and it can be turned on or off in settings.
Why it’s not more popular or aggressive probably because cellular typically:
– is more expensive
– has much smaller caps
– has lower throughput
– has higher latency
it all depends on your phones hardware and software.
for the phone makers that thought of this there is a feature called.
USED MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS , that actually combines wifi and cell together into one.
i can remember the exact make , but it has been done, with forethought.
If they are your wifi access points, and the AP software supports it, you can enable [RSSI](https://www.netspotapp.com/wifi-signal-strength/what-is-rssi-level.html) This feature cuts off devices when the levels get poor, but not so bad that it completely drops. This feature is often used for better roaming between APs so devices will jump to closer AP sooner.
There would be a lot more complaints if your phone automatically used the expensive data option. If you have a huge amount of data or don’t pay for your own phone bill you might not care but it would be a shady practice to have it happen automatically without changing a setting. Go through your data settings and you should be able to enable it.
On a side note your phone should do this automatically between different wifi connections.
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