I'm using an Airport Extreme 5th generation router that has a cable modem hooked to it and also hardwired to our PS4. It is working just fine in my home. We only get about 1-2 bars from ATT inside the house, so this is awesome
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Wi-Fi Calling Now Available for AT&T Users
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I'm using an Airport Extreme 5th generation router that has a cable modem hooked to it and also hardwired to our PS4. It is working just fine in my home. We only get about 1-2 bars from ATT inside the house, so this is awesome
I'm wondering if that is because it goes into wifi calling mode when the signal is weak. Maybe your signal is sometimes good and sometimes not?
No one said you HAVE to go into airplane mode. Going into airplane mode and then turning wifi back on simply is a way of forcing the phone to switch to wifi calling to test if it's active or not not since it deactivates the cellular radio.
Wifi calling will always be automatic once you have it activated and your cell signal gets weak. That's kinda the point of the thing.
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Yes, I know that. I was replying to the suggestion to use FaceTime Audio.
I would be great if some company would make an app that would combine all the FaceTime, WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook etc call and all the other into one. A bit similar as with BB Messenger, which combined all the income text messages from several sources into one place. Probably never gonna happen......
Why exactly is ATT not supporting this on an iPhone 5s? I think this is really a dis-service to the people who purchased these models knowing they had the capability per Apple https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032
iPhone 5c and later are capable of Wi-Fi Calling. Check with your carrier on which models are supported.
This may be a deciding factor for me on switching carriers. ATT always seems late to the party.
iPhone 5c and later are capable of Wi-Fi Calling. Check with your carrier on which models are supported.
This may be a deciding factor for me on switching carriers. ATT always seems late to the party.
Well in my experience WiFi signal can fluctuate or your WiFi router or ISP can have intermittent issues without you being aware so that's not entirely impossible
The manner in which they have WiFi calling set up is different from the 2 other methods/means set up among cell providers
In short the 5S/5C came out too soon to have ideal compatibility.
Even if AT&T were to retroactively find a way for the 5S/5C to work the performance of a 5S using WiFi on ATT would be significantly degraded vs 6 6P 6S 6SP and 5S/5C because they also don't have full HD Voice and VoLTE compatility ( key things that make WiFi Calling work it's best ) not only would 5C/5S customers be peeved at poor call quality or inability to make calls but the number of call drops would soar dramatically because handoff/handover
( made possible by HD Voice or VoLTE coverage ) wouldn't be able to properly occur on your 5C/5S
if say your router/WiFi connection craps out, your ISP has a sudden issue/outage, power outage where you are , you travel outside WiFi range, your cell/network/phone signal somehow briefly becomes stronger than your WiFi signal then boom no handover call drops people moan "Oh ATT is the worst this feature was supposed to make the network coverage better not worse"
In short support for ATT WFC on 5C/5S would be difficult if not near impossible , would be a PR Nightmare and a greater customer disservice than simply saying "yeah we can't/don't/won't support WFC on 5C/5S"
And granted while "late to the party" ATT tries to do things right not rushed/half cocked, and they did this legally unlike some carriers lastly Verizon and some others STILL Don't offer WFC so ATT isn't last on this one
Also not to make assumptions cause I know some can't or won't for various reasons but
5C/5S owners are about due for upgrades if not to 6S 6SP then 7 and 7P next year
Also it was ( rightly) assumed/expected by both ATT and Apple that 3GS 4 4S 5 and many 5C 5S customers would upgrade even if they just go to the 6 or 6P
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I can confirm that wifi calling is working on my iPhone 6. I activated it, then put my phone in airplane mode with the wifi turned on and made a couple of phone calls. Neither of which were to other AT&T customers. One was to time & temperature and the other was to my company office.
Put your phone in Airplane mode and then manually turn on the wifi. You should see "AT&T Wi-Fi" at the top of you phone.
Not true. I've now made several calls using this feature and non of them were to other AT&T customers.
Well it only works on iPhone 6 / 6+. If you have one of those then you have HD Voice...I'm guessing. It's not a paid feature as I understand it.
For some reason there appears to be an issue with using AT&T WiFi calling with Optimum Online. I'm seeing this issue and was able to use WiFi calling while connected to another iPhone's hotspot, but not my home WiFi.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30343753-AT-T-WiFi-Calling-OOL
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30343753-AT-T-WiFi-Calling-OOL
You appear to be correct. I spoke with my Time Warner Cable Internet Tech support and they confirmed Time Warner is not blocking the ports or any ports so they felt fairly certain that it is my ASUS RT-N56U Routher that is blocking the port (s) needed for the AT&T WiFi calling to work on my home WiFi. I have opened my Router admin and now know how to open or forward ports, but I need to know the exact ports AT&T is using to enable WiFi calling. Does anybody know which ports or port numbers AT&T is using for WiFi calling?
Go to Settings > Phone > Wi-Fi Calling. If you don't see it try restarting your phone.
That is completely false. I can use wifi calling to anywhere. You have to have hd voice capability, but it isn't actually be used for wifi calling, at least not in the sense you are thinking of.
I called AT&T last night and they indicated they would call me back today at 4pm pst to give me the port numbers and info. to get it to work. The 4500 UDP did not work, so far. Thanks for the info. I may just have to try a different router if I cannot find a way around the problem and hope its just this old ASUS RT-N56U router that is to blame. If anyone has any other ideas let me know as again I can use ATT WiFi calling at public wifi's but no at home and Time Warner swears it's not them but it is the router. If I get info. from AT&T how to get it to work, or some other port numbers or instructions I will update this later tonight. Thanks again!
