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What can I do to keep my iPhone logged in to hospital wifi?

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eyespii

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The hospital I work at has notoriously poor AT&T reception, but has wifi everywhere I go. The problem is, every time I put my iPhone to sleep and wake it up again, i get an annoying popup on my screen that asks me to "accept" the terms of their free wifi. Is there any way to just keep the iPhone connected via wifi even while asleep, or have the hospital wifi "remember" to keep my iPhone authorized?

Thanks!
 
eyespii said:
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The hospital I work at has notoriously poor AT&T reception, but has wifi everywhere I go. The problem is, every time I put my iPhone to sleep and wake it up again, i get an annoying popup on my screen that asks me to "accept" the terms of their free wifi. Is there any way to just keep the iPhone connected via wifi even while asleep, or have the hospital wifi "remember" to keep my iPhone authorized?

Thanks!
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sounds to me like this is more of an issue with the hospital system that apparently wants the confirmation of terms every time a device logs in. Is there someone in tech services there you can ask about this?
 
Talk to your IT department and see if they can add your MAC address an an exception on the network. It's the same where I work, but employees can get their iPhones (and likely other smartphones) added to the exception list so that they don't get prompted every time to log in.
 
I have poor AT&T reception inside the hospital I work at as well.

I recommend talking to your IT department about that issue. I'm sure you're aware, but there are stiff privacy and legal issues that may not let you bypass a login or accept screen at a hospital.
 
SnowDX said:
Talk to your IT department and see if they can add your MAC address an an exception on the network. It's the same where I work, but employees can get their iPhones (and likely other smartphones) added to the exception list so that they don't get prompted every time to log in.
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Correct. Your servers keep refreshing the IP address. The Mac Address exception would work for this. That way you would never have to sign in again.
 
this is a two part issue

a) the iPhone will turn off it's wifi antenna in sleep mode
b) network protocols

our old wifi network use to require a log in each time too , but now it stays logged unblock longer, but still requires a relogin I think every few hours
 
Just for the records there is an App on the Jailbreak side that can keep your wife on even when the phone is on sleep mode so you don't get disconnected, as a trade off your battery life will suffer a bit, but not really anything big. Just an FYI
 
maturola said:
Just for the records there is an App on the Jailbreak side that can keep your wife on ... so you don't get disconnected, as a trade off your battery life will suffer a bit, but not really anything big.
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That's one of the best 'autocorrect' slip-ups I've seen in a while!
 
Same thing here at school, except that it's only my iPhone 4 and not others'. Theirs work great, but I have to put in my username/password every time. Tried a restore from backup and a "reset all network settings", but didn't help. I don't want to lose all of my contacts, texts, etc. so a "complete" restore is really not an option for me.
 
It would be great to get a solution to this.
This is so ridiculous. There should be laws requiring 'open' networks to remain 'open'
Let's hack the crap out of these guys please
...they make their lives easier by making our lives harder?... Not cool
 
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