[OSX-Users] Re: iOS preferred network order

[Nick Gibbins]

You can either forget all networks, or forget individual networks *when
you can see them*. Not ideal.

Nick

On 6 Dec 2011, at 17:25, Tim Chown wrote:

> You can 'forget' networks, but not aware of an ios priority list for those you remember.  Agree would be nice.
> 
> tim
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> 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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>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
>> 
>> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>> 
> 

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