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anyone actually attempt to use the wonderful 'xfinity wifi' crap?

Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:21 pm
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
82671 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:21 pm
here's my experience

.i finally dcedied to try out the 'xfinity wifi' since it pops up as an 'available wifi' all the damn time on my phone

why not save my phone data right? all you gotta do is log in one time with your comcast credentials.

ok this was hands down the most miserable experience of my life

i left myself 'signed in' for about a week and what it did..was everytime i stopped at a red light and some random xfinity signal 'wafted through' my phone would turn off data and attempt to connect to xfinity

by the time it connected i was moving again and then any pandora or other streaming I was doing in my car suddenly cut off

gps went haywire while it tried to figure out if i was using data or wifi for my location

by the time it figured out the wifi was gone and reconnected to data..guess what? another xfinity wifi signal was in range

rinse rather repeat

so as a 'feature' of seamless login to the 'xfinity wifi network', i made my life miserable for a week until i flushed the wifi connection pairing.

useless. the end.
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9707 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:42 pm to
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turn off data and attempt to connect to xfinity



There is a setting for that in Android
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
82671 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 2:00 pm to
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There is a setting for that in Android


normally the seamless switching is great..when i get home..to work..at starbucks.

however, throw xfinity in there and everything goes to hell.
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9707 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 2:04 pm to
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throw xfinity in there and everything goes to hell.



Dude..I hate everything else too...
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
82671 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 2:07 pm to
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Dude..I hate everything else too..


every once in awhile i'll be near a mcdonalds at a stoplight and i would have the issue with the att/google starbucks/mcdonalds wifi service trying to auto-login.

LIKE ONCE A MONTH.

but the xfinity shite is ****EVERYWHERE**** so it has the same effect as thousands of tiny data disrupters all over town fricking with your phone.

at no time have i ever connected to any of them long enough in my car to actually complete the handshake.
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 2:08 pm
Posted by FalseProphet
Mecca
Member since Dec 2011
11710 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 2:52 pm to
I haven't had that problem at all. I actually use it all the time.
Posted by FaIcon
Member since Feb 2014
144 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 2:54 pm to
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This post was edited on 3/3/24 at 8:36 am
Posted by RollDatRoll
Who Dat. Roll Tide.
Member since Dec 2010
12245 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 3:10 pm to
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Sounds like an Android problem. You should get an iPhone




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ok this was hands down the most miserable experience of my life


You poor thing. It sounds terrible.
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
34453 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 3:24 pm to
You should already have a tasker profile to turn your wifi off when you get in your car.
Posted by tgrgrd00
Kenner, LA
Member since Jun 2004
9189 posts
Posted on 9/11/14 at 5:52 pm to
I haven't found one that is usable. The few I have connected to were ~56k dialup speeds.

I have my Truck NFC tag turn off my wifi when I get in so no problem when out and about.
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