Everyone I know has a similar experience. I think you've got the vast majority the wrong way round.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
"turning on wi-fi will improve location accuracy"
- Thread starter stooovie
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Everyone I know has a similar experience. I think you've got the vast majority the wrong way round.
Well, on my part I can say that everyone I know has the opposite of that experience. Furthermore, with overload of threads on the littlest icon color changes that end up being present on forums like this, there are certainly not many at all that deal with battery issues related to simply having WiFi being enabled, and most battery related advice from pretty much all walks of life often doesn't go into doing anything with the main WiFi setting. If WiFi simply being on or off was even slightly deemed as something definitive to blame for battery issues there would certainly be much more mention of it and likely on a regular basis in places like this (kind of like location services is mentioned quite often in those types of discussions). So, again, while I don't doubt that there would be people who might experience some issues related to the setting or see some differences with it being on vs. off, it seems given the information that exists it's fairly rational to say that it's not something widespread and doesn't necessarily apply to most.
WiFi is already dying tech. In 10 years younger folks won't even know what it is, or maybe will have heard of it, like 78rpm records. The popup is SO ANNOYING.
What are you talking about? Wifi and Cellular will become essentially a nonissue as systems will trade between them when needed, but Wifi is not going away.
802.11 ac = 433 Mbits/s
202.11 ad = 7 Gbits/s
There is tons of improvements ahead for Wifi. Cellular and Wifi will always become more and more intertwined, but congestion alone provides massive problems for cellular that the telecoms themselves acknowledge they can't completely overcome.
Take a look at AT&T and Comcast, they're installing Wifi EVERYWHERE to supplement and take the loads off their networks.
Both these technologies are here for the long haul.
When I have wifi off, I get the nagging popup to turn it on. When I have wifi on, I get a nagging popup every time I'm within range of a wifi network.
Can't win.
Can't win.
When I have wifi off, I get the nagging popup to turn it on. When I have wifi on, I get a nagging popup every time I'm within range of a wifi network.
Can't win.
Easy fix, settings->wifi ask to join networks off. It won't pop up asking you to connect to wifi anymore.
You can disable the camera wifi prompt by going to Privacy>Location Services>System Services and toggling wifi networking.
Dont think that one is related to this as it's a completely different and unrelated item in system services.
433 mbits per second to 7 gbits/s would be hella k-rad on an iPhone. but you are most likely to never see it. they simply don't put the number of antennas necessary in an iPhone to get those speeds. for example. 300 mbit 802.11n requires 2 x 2 spatial streams and 450 mbit requires 3 x 3 spatial streams. the iPhone only has 1 wifi antenna. its impossible to get those speeds. i think the top speed even with 5ghz on an iPhone is 56 mbit????
oh and about the wifi gps thing. it probably uses less power to check wifi networks to get a general area then to power up the gps receiver for a minute or so or maybe 2 minutes max to get an initial lock
2 x 2 is the number of transmit and receive antennas (channels???) , 3 x 3 , 4 x 4, etc etc
we are more likely to get thunderbolt on iPhone then 2 or 4 wifi antennas
I have reached with 5S 105 Mbit download speed. Ipad air has MIMO (2x2) so it could reach 300 Mbit. Maybe Apple will introduce atleast 2x2 on iPhone 6 and 3x3 for iPad air 2
While off-topic to the original point of the thread, I cannot see why a phone has to download that fast. For bragging rights it would be nice if the iphone 6 has an ac chip in it, but 433 mb/s is way over the top for what a phone has to do today.
As for GPS accuracy: when sitting at home with WiFi on, the location varies by about 10m.
Same iPhone, WiFi off, the location jumps around by as much as 300m!...
This is a ridiculous amount of variance!
Any guesses as to why?...
(Sorry about the thread Rez! Due to these ridiculous inserted ads it seemed like the latest post was from today!)
Same iPhone, WiFi off, the location jumps around by as much as 300m!...
This is a ridiculous amount of variance!
Any guesses as to why?...
(Sorry about the thread Rez! Due to these ridiculous inserted ads it seemed like the latest post was from today!)