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

On 5/20/2025 2:24 PM, 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?

I have my phone connected to my WiFi to get better (complete) phone
service around the house. No more dead spots...

But I assumed if there were no good wifi, it would switch back to
data. is that unreasonable? What's going on here?

There's WiFi and then there's Internet service. If your ISP fails (no
internet) your WiFi of course would still be working. And your phone
would have no ISP service even though still being connected to the WiFi.
I suppose it would depend on the phone whether it's smart enough to
switch back to the tower with no ISP service rather than just no WiFi.
It would appear that yours might not be smart(phone) enough.
Sorry, bad joke...  :-/