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Help evo and wi-fi

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KESTDAWG

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Just wondering. I connected my phone to the wi-fi in my house. Should i leave it connected to the wifi when im home? I dont understand what is the benefit of having it connected. Is it faster or something? I know its a stupid question but i really dont know the answer
 
I leave my evo connected to my home wifi at all times. However, when I am out, I disable wifi until I get home and then re-enable it. My home connection is 20Mbps versus Sprint's 3G so by leaving wifi on at home it's much faster when browsing the internet or watching youtube or streaming music, etc.
 
Browsing the web with your home WiFi connection is faster than your 3g connection. If you have an active 4g connection than I'm not sure which is faster. I don't have 4g available where I'm at yet.
 
im annoyed with the 4g coverage by my house. no 4g in my house but great signal across the street. really frustrating
 
I wish I had 4G coverage in my house/city, a few times my wifi has gone down so that would have really helped.
 
Update your profile will reenable WIFI. I just discovered this. After the upgrade to 3.7 my WIFI would just sit on scanning, after I updated my profile all is working. MENU>SYSTEM UPDATES>UPDATE PROFILE
 
KESTDAWG said:
im annoyed with the 4g coverage by my house. no 4g in my house but great signal across the street. really frustrating
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Wimax (4g, sort of) will probably still be slower than your home broadband and wifi consumes a lot less battery power as compared with 4g (or even 3g). You'll be charging more often while on 4g.
 
Doc99 said:
Update your profile will reenable WIFI. I just discovered this. After the upgrade to 3.7 my WIFI would just sit on scanning, after I updated my profile all is working. MENU>SYSTEM UPDATES>UPDATE PROFILE
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I tried Profile updating. Mine still just keeps doing an endless loop of "Connecting", "obtaining IP address from private network," and "Scanning."

Anyone else have any luck?
 
I turn the mobile network off when I can connect to wifi (to save some battery) since the mobile network uses more battery than wifi.
 
KESTDAWG said:
im annoyed with the 4g coverage by my house. no 4g in my house but great signal across the street. really frustrating
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Welcome to the forums!

That sort of issue can happen with 3G, too - it depend somewhat if you're in a fringe area and it depends a lot on the planning location for the towers and their calibrations.

My son lived a few streets over from me, and he couldn't get 3G at his house, not even in the yard - but could at every house 360 degrees around him. I went over with my phone - confirmed it.

Null spots happen - it sux, but there it is.
 
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