[OSX-Users] Re: iOS preferred network order

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I don't know I don't have an IOS device :P that's why I unsubscribed to 
IOS useres because I didn't want to hear anything else about them 
filling up my inbox.

On 05/12/2011 17:51, Nick Gibbins wrote:
> ios-users seems to be dead, so I'm posting this here.
>
> Does iOS 5 have any way for me to specify in which order it should try
> to connect to wifi networks? Now that the uni is moving to eduroam for
> wifi, I'm starting to get problems at home.
>
> The situation is this: we have a house network (GARKNET) to which our
> servers and the TV are connected, and we also run a SOWN node (so eduroam
> is also visible). To control our TV, we use a Mac Mini running EyeTV, and
> use our iDevices running Rowmote as remote controls.
>
> Unfortunately, there's about a 50:50 chance that our phones will connect
> to eduroam rather than GARKNET, and I'm getting a bit fed up with having
> to check which network my phone is connected to before I try to change
> channels.
>
> On OS X it's possible to specify the order in which a computer tries to
> connect to networks - is this also possible in iOS, and if so, how?
>
> (and yes, I'm aware that this problem was only made possible by my love
> of superfluous technology)

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