[OSX-Users] Re: iOS preferred network order

[Tim Chown]

You can 'forget' networks, but not aware of an ios priority list for those you remember.  Agree would be nice.

tim



On 6 Dec 2011, at 02:15, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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