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'Home' devices now 'TOO' smart!!??
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RJSV:
Actually, thanks, I found out the TV / WIFI  dish antenna has shifted (we think), so my problems likely coming from my own local (equipment).
The signal used, by the cable / satellite box is likely compromised, and so causing my phone (on WIFI) to go roaming, for a friendly cell-phone tower.
I don't like that, because it eats up the data minutes I have loaded in, using a grocery store phone card.
This time, my mistake.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---I don't like that, because it eats up the data minutes I have loaded in, using a grocery store phone card.
--- End quote ---

Why not disable cell data when you're at home? You can either do it manually or use one of the many apps that will do it automatically.
RJSV:
Yes but..uhh.. isn't 'cell data' minutes what brings in the content being watched / read etc. ?
  I use various music (videos) as headphone 'background' music source.
PlainName:
How can the cell minutes bring the data in if it's coming over WiFi? And that seems to be your issue - you are using cell minutes when you want to be on WiFi. So just disable cell data (not cell voice) and it can't switch from WiFi. Of course, if your WiFi is really crap then you'll suffer dropouts because the cell data won't be there to catch it, but since that's what you're complaining about I think it's a fair solution.
vk6zgo:
My iPad is a bit "deaf", so from time to time, it loses connection to our Wifi.
A bit annoying, but tolerable, until recently, when after one of these episodes, it happily connected to somebody's Air Conditioner.

When I went to "Settings" to see what was happening, it showed two such airconditioners.

My first reaction was "Cool, I can mess with someone elses stuff!", but, unfortunately it doesn't work that way-----I can't use the connection to fiddle their A/C settings, or to go on line.

I guess because the connection is "dumbed down" they don't bother with a password, leaving the thing sitting there to piss off unwary Wifi users.

The way to stop that happening is to connect to it, then tell the iPad to "forget this network", but it is a "fiddle" you need to work out, which is something you wouldn't need to do, if they used a password.
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