Yep. This behavior is why I left XM after being a happy customer for 3 years. I was okay that they removed the 100MB free, essentially raising my bill from $2.16 of taxes each month to $14.16, but when my phone started jumping on the neighbor’s WiFi every time I went downstairs to get something to eat? That was too much. I could have just upgraded to a mesh network but it was far cheaper to port out and I’m actually paying about half for my service now than I was then (I’m a very low data usage customer and I use Google Voice so I don’t need a lot of minutes either).
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Yep. This behavior is why I left XM after being a happy customer for 3 years. I was okay that they removed the 100MB free, essentially raising my bill from $2.16 of taxes each month to $14.16, but when my phone started jumping on the neighbor’s WiFi every time I went downstairs to get something to eat? That was too much. I could have just upgraded to a mesh network but it was far cheaper to port out and I’m actually paying about half for my service now than I was then (I’m a very low data usage customer and I use Google Voice so I don’t need a lot of minutes either).
Where I live T-Mobile gets around 20-30 megs with some random spots hitting 250-500mbps. AT&T usually sees 150+ everywhere with some spots dropping to 50-75. Overall AT&T poops on T-Mobile by me. Just depends on the area. And Verizon is straight up useless with most speeds being under 10mbps.
AT&T does have decent service here. Verizon is by far the worst. T-Mobile’s midband is formidable though and they’re deploying it crazy fast.
I actually have AT&T as my main provider, and have been toying around with a T-Mobile prepaid plan as an esim just because I’m bored and I find it interesting. T-Mobile when it works works very well, but they don’t have the coverage AT&T or Verizon do in Phoenix at least. I was at dinner in a normal shopping center and T-Mobile had “no service” displaying on my phone… but walk out into the parking lot for a speed test and I almost hit 500mbps…
What I don’t understand is… on both AT&T and T-Mobile—if I force them onto lte (instead of 5g auto) I get WAY better speeds. If I leave it in 5g auto, my speeds suffer dramatically on both services.
I love this - this is really great news.
To often you are stuck in a ****** WIFI network and nothing works although 5G is available.
I would even love this option for slower cellular networks (like 3G,4G).
Even an alert in message center (ideally with a network ignore/log-out option) would be great - so one could log-out of the Wifi if it is a nuisance.
To often you are stuck in a ****** WIFI network and nothing works although 5G is available.
I would even love this option for slower cellular networks (like 3G,4G).
Even an alert in message center (ideally with a network ignore/log-out option) would be great - so one could log-out of the Wifi if it is a nuisance.
For all sorts of practical reasons, a cell network (even our current 4G ones) is a lot more reliable than a wifi network served from a home router combo. Technicians maintain these towers and the network 24/7 with failovers and all that. Random home networks you don't control will fail for random reasons you don't control, and there will be nobody standing by. Also, idk if wifi 6 improves this, but wifi in the past has had terrible support for handoff between access points; LTE has a complex way of dealing with this.
Regardless, wifi 6E on a reliable home network means nothing if the ISP isn't giving you very fast service.
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I think that's just when the signal is poor (due to distance etc), not the connection to the Internet. So, just that L1 hop to the access point, not the whole end-to-end connection.
I have Tello as my main provider so I don’t normally have 5G (Apple has to fix the carrier bundle to see the new 240 SIM cards as T-Mobile - it’s affecting a number of T-Mobile MVNOs right now) but I did try Connect for a month and the speeds were pretty impressive.
T-Mobile has always had that particular coverage problem. I remember when they had a dead spot on my route home from work that was right in the middle of the highway in downtown Denver. I would always have to tell people the call was about to drop and then immediately call them back because the gap was only like 50 feet at the most.
I think that’s just the modem firmware. Same thing with getting stuck on n71 SA and having crappy speeds despite n41 NSA being available with 300+Mbps at the same area. Apple needs to tweak the modem a bit.
People on the Internet put too much effort into saying T-Mobile is great for me to believe it. All over California it seems, their coverage is spotty, as I know from friends and family having to borrow my phone. Sure you maybe get better speeds for less $ in the spots it works, but it ain't worth.
That’s why if I start getting out of the house more I’ll get an AT&T eSIM as a secondary. Get T-Mobile’s speed where it’s available and AT&T’s reliability everywhere else.
it is strange as in the past few days Apple has clearly shown an aptitude for implementing other 1984 related things...
Weird, I've seen the exact opposite. When I tell it to forget, it forgets.
Yeah. People were complaining about the Control Center wifi toggle only temporarily disabling wifi joining, but I rely on that behavior. Gotta temp disable it when I leave the house if I realize outside that I want to navigate somewhere. And if you use CarPlay (which I don't), you can't even pre-start your nav inside your house because it'll stop the nav when you connect the phone.
They'll report you if you exceed the threshold for flagged images. Just one image won't do it.
Why won't they accept the agreements for you? Well, we have a number of sue-happy Karens that look for every opportunity to complain about rules and policy. Giving them an opportunity to sue for actual damages would mean Apple is just asking for it. Apple is smart to leave the captive system as-is.
If you've ever done the setup at an Apple Store, they look but don't touch when guiding you through setup, and it's all about liability. Technically, Verizon should not be accepting agreements on your behalf. It's one of those cases of "who cares" until someone makes a mess of it.
Some of those hotspots load the captive page directly from the router. Not using data from the hotspot would prevent you from connecting; a cellular connection wouldn't be able to retrieve the login page since it cannot connect to the local IP address.
I recommend forgetting all public wifi hotspots if you do not use them so they will not auto-connect while you're out and about. The "Auto-Join Hotspot" setting is only for the tethering hotspot, so that setting can be left on.
No, because CSAM doesn't involve any server communication that doesn't already happen, since it's done when a picture is uploaded to iCloud Photo Library. It is described in detail in a paper Apple wrote about the algorithm. You should now comment on this if you don't know how it works.
How does that invalidate what he said? It needs a connection for the server comm you're mentioning.
My problem was quite the opposite last year. Due to a very bad ice storm, I was without cable at my house for quite a few days. I had backup power, but my only internet was cell. If I did not turn off WiFi and unplug my routers, I had no internet because, my devices kept defaulting to the not working WiFi connection.
Just to be clear, I tethered my laptops and desktops to my cell phones, but the phones would try to connect to my not working local network. About five times a day, I would turn on the TV to see if cable was back up. About five times a day, I would be very disappointed.
Just to be clear, I tethered my laptops and desktops to my cell phones, but the phones would try to connect to my not working local network. About five times a day, I would turn on the TV to see if cable was back up. About five times a day, I would be very disappointed.
I just leave my phone on lte since AT&T’s real 5G isn’t deployed in Arizona yet, and their lte still gets speeds over 100mbpsI have Tello as my main provider so I don’t normally have 5G (Apple has to fix the carrier bundle to see the new 240 SIM cards as T-Mobile - it’s affecting a number of T-Mobile MVNOs right now) but I did try Connect for a month and the speeds were pretty impressive.
T-Mobile has always had that particular coverage problem. I remember when they had a dead spot on my route home from work that was right in the middle of the highway in downtown Denver. I would always have to tell people the call was about to drop and then immediately call them back because the gap was only like 50 feet at the most.
I think that’s just the modem firmware. Same thing with getting stuck on n71 SA and having crappy speeds despite n41 NSA being available with 300+Mbps at the same area. Apple needs to tweak the modem a bit.