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

On 2025-05-20 23:24, micky 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 a costly choice, so it is manual.
People would assume that WiFi is working at home and do a big download, and later have a surprise with the invoice.

 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?

No, if there is no wifi for which you have credentials in the area, it should use data.
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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.