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WIFI Settings Propagated Across Devices?

ericgtr12

ericgtr12

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I have an iPhone 6S Plus and an iPod Touch, when I add a WIFI connection on either the iPhone or the iPod, it automatically propagates to the other device respectively, same if I remove the connection, it's gone from both. The only way I've found to prevent this is to remove iCloud completely from the iPod Touch, since I don't really "need" it there I can handle it but is there any other way around this?
 
No. This is the issue I have with the apple watches. They also use the same WIFI credentials table. Since they do not have 5ghz and I have my 2.4 vs. 5 ghz networks separated by SSID. I still have to keep the credentials in my iPad/iPhone for the 2.4 ghz network so that my watch can have wifi.

I wish they would add another column to their "credential" table to store which device(s) the user wants to see or not see it.
 
ericgtr12 said:
I have an iPhone 6S Plus and an iPod Touch, when I add a WIFI connection on either the iPhone or the iPod, it automatically propagates to the other device respectively, same if I remove the connection, it's gone from both. The only way I've found to prevent this is to remove iCloud completely from the iPod Touch, since I don't really "need" it there I can handle it but is there any other way around this?
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This is a feature of iCloud Keychain. If you disable that you won't have Wifi networks sync'd. But you will also lose the password store feature...
 
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Don't signon to iCloud or use a different iCloud account, with all its repercussions.
 
JT2002TJ said:
No. This is the issue I have with the apple watches. They also use the same WIFI credentials table. Since they do not have 5ghz and I have my 2.4 vs. 5 ghz networks separated by SSID. I still have to keep the credentials in my iPad/iPhone for the 2.4 ghz network so that my watch can have wifi.

I wish they would add another column to their "credential" table to store which device(s) the user wants to see or not see it.
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Just use the same SSID for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. If you have issues with your iPhone preferring 2.4GHz just lower the power on 2.4.
 
geoff5093 said:
Just use the same SSID for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. If you have issues with your iPhone preferring 2.4GHz just lower the power on 2.4.
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The way I understand it is, 2.4's range is so much better than 5, that it will favor it anyways. Especially as you arrive home, 2.4 will be the first it sees. Iphones then to cling onto a signal.

I blocked my MAC addresses on the 2.4 frequency, so when it try's to connect, it eventually drops it and connects to the 5.
 
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JT2002TJ said:
The way I understand it is, 2.4's range is so much better than 5, that it will favor it anyways. Especially as you arrive home, 2.4 will be the first it sees. Iphones then to cling onto a signal.

I blocked my MAC addresses on the 2.4 frequency, so when it try's to connect, it eventually drops it and connects to the 5.
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Most devices should move over to 5GHz after a short while of being idle as well, but for my Xbox for instance I had to lower the power of 2.4 so it would default to 5.
 
KennethS said:
How do I do this on an Airport Extreme? Sorry but I can't seem to find the settings in the AirPort Utility App.
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Ah, yeah you can't on an Airport. Apple doesn't believe in their users being able to tweak things on their wireless routers.
 
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