why do phones try to stick to a connected wifi network for dear life even though I’ve moved far from it that it’s barely useable anymore; all while I’m near another ‘remembered’ wifi network with very strong signal?
The phone knows the password of the other wifi that I’m near at, and i have set it to auto-join. But no it refuse to connect to it and prefer to hold onto where it’s last connected. I need to manually tap the other network everytime I move.
In: Engineering
Well it’s a bit of an edge case of not many people needing it to do that, but there’re also issues it could cause. Your connection would drop for a moment as it switches, which admittedly may not be that bad if it’s in a situation where the signal is dropping anyway though. Another problem is if you’re going through something that required you to do some sort of anti-DDOS verification then switching network may cause you to need to redo that, which is annoying if triggered without you choosing to switch network.
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