Re: why won't it use data if wifi is bad?

micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

A while back I was sitting by a window and still could not download a
whole webpage on my phone.
 
Today, in a different location I was sitting by a window and again
couldn't download anything.
 
I turned off wifi and then everything worked.
 
Long ago I set the phone so that if there were wifi, it would use use
wifi instead of costly data.  Who wouldn't want that?  Doesn't everyone
use that?
 
But I assumed if there were no good wifi, it would switch back to data.
is that unreasonable?

  That's normally a setting in your Wi-Fi connection settings. My
switching is turned off, because I have good Wi-Fi and don't want to
risk needlessly using expensive mobile data.

  As you didn't mention your phone brand, model and Android version, we
can't really help you with specific settings/instructions.

  As always: There is no such thing as standard Settings on an Android
phone, so don't assume, but specify.

What's going on here?
 
In the windowshade, for wifi it said Xfinity, but i'm not eligible for
that and even if I were, I hadn't put in the password.  Is the phone so
stupid that it counts that as having wifi?

  I don't know what you mean by "the windowshade", but if you mean the
(full) slide-down notification area, then if the Wi-Fi icon is labeled
with 'Xfinity', you *are* connected to a Wi-Fi access point with that
name/SSID, so you *had* put in the password at some time.

  As to your question: No, your phone is not stupid, it just does what
you told it to do. See also AJL's response about Wi-Fi != Internet.