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Jak Bausa
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I have 2 smartphones, the Galaxy Note 3 (carrier A) and BlackBerry Z10 (carrier B). I have both for voice and* Internet connection redundancy.
I my disconnecting wifi problem ever since I got the earliest release of the Note 3 in the Philippines last Sept. 21. I get to experience the wifi connection /disconnection issue whenever I try to connect to my other phone's (BlackBerry Z10) wifi hotspot. I also experienced this whenever my home wifi router (Apple Airport Extreme) is experiencing a slow connection with our ISP.
Whenever I connect my Note 3 to my Z10's personal hotspot, the first status message would be:
- Checking quality of your Internet connection (msg #1)
After a while, the* message would be:
- Network disabled because Internet connection is slow (msg #2)
Some other times my Note 3 would connect but would later on disconnect and revert to my carrier's data plan.
I do not notice this with all our other devices (Galaxy Note 2, iPad 1st and 4th Gen, MacBook Pro and Air, iPhone 4S,* Kindle Fire HD, etc.) that connects to my Z10's personal hotspot. They get stable Internet connection from it.
My Note 3's wifi advance settings are:
- Network notification = ON
- Passpoint = OFF
- Keep wifi on during sleep = ON
- Always allow scanning = ON
- Auto network switch = ON
- wifi timer = OFF
I tried to disable Auto network switch and turned off my home wifi and just connected to my Z10's personal hotspot to prevent my Note 3 from switching to my home wifi but it just results to msg #2 and reverts back to my carrier's data plan for Internet connection.
When I checked my Note 2's (Android 4.1.2) advanced wifi settings, there's an option there to toggle "Check wifi AP's Internet connection". In the Note 3, the closest setting is perhaps the Auto network switch which Android 4.3 automatically turns on (even if you deliberately turn it off) whenever it doesn't get good Internet connection from your preferred AP.
The only workaround to this would be to turn off all my other known APs (or forget them in my wifi list of connections) and turn off my mobile data in my Note 3 then connect with my Z10's hotspot. This would however mean that I would have to re-enable my mobile data and turn on my auto network switch every time I'm done connecting with my Z10's hotspot. This is crude and I would wish Samsung would come out with a good fix for this very soon!
Regards,
Jak
Manila, Philippines
I my disconnecting wifi problem ever since I got the earliest release of the Note 3 in the Philippines last Sept. 21. I get to experience the wifi connection /disconnection issue whenever I try to connect to my other phone's (BlackBerry Z10) wifi hotspot. I also experienced this whenever my home wifi router (Apple Airport Extreme) is experiencing a slow connection with our ISP.
Whenever I connect my Note 3 to my Z10's personal hotspot, the first status message would be:
- Checking quality of your Internet connection (msg #1)
After a while, the* message would be:
- Network disabled because Internet connection is slow (msg #2)
Some other times my Note 3 would connect but would later on disconnect and revert to my carrier's data plan.
I do not notice this with all our other devices (Galaxy Note 2, iPad 1st and 4th Gen, MacBook Pro and Air, iPhone 4S,* Kindle Fire HD, etc.) that connects to my Z10's personal hotspot. They get stable Internet connection from it.
My Note 3's wifi advance settings are:
- Network notification = ON
- Passpoint = OFF
- Keep wifi on during sleep = ON
- Always allow scanning = ON
- Auto network switch = ON
- wifi timer = OFF
I tried to disable Auto network switch and turned off my home wifi and just connected to my Z10's personal hotspot to prevent my Note 3 from switching to my home wifi but it just results to msg #2 and reverts back to my carrier's data plan for Internet connection.
When I checked my Note 2's (Android 4.1.2) advanced wifi settings, there's an option there to toggle "Check wifi AP's Internet connection". In the Note 3, the closest setting is perhaps the Auto network switch which Android 4.3 automatically turns on (even if you deliberately turn it off) whenever it doesn't get good Internet connection from your preferred AP.
The only workaround to this would be to turn off all my other known APs (or forget them in my wifi list of connections) and turn off my mobile data in my Note 3 then connect with my Z10's hotspot. This would however mean that I would have to re-enable my mobile data and turn on my auto network switch every time I'm done connecting with my Z10's hotspot. This is crude and I would wish Samsung would come out with a good fix for this very soon!
Regards,
Jak
Manila, Philippines
