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House Wifi Logged me on anyway ?
RJSV:
Hello !
I'm one of those (poor suckers) blessed with infinite curiosity, about the world's technical devices, and thus questioning the house Wifi here, after storm power blackouts.
Bringing system back up, I noticed my Android powered phone had a text message:
"Sign on to WIFI; RickJames"
OK, that made sense, as the server re-booted connection to Comcast customer here at the house. BUT, a couple minutes later I noticed the phone notification bar had switched from cellphone (towers I guess), back to the more usual Wifi !
I was, like, 'Auto-logged' in, without supplying my Wifi password...nice because I was contemplating the tired old 'searching', through various random spiral notebooks....for 'Almighty Password'. "Maybe the blue one" I was
thinking, dreading the low-tech password backup distraction.
Wondering, tho, why that server was so casually putting me back on the local network ?
Thanks for reading.
- - Rick B.
edpalmer42:
AFAIK, your phone wants to be online so it checks both cellular and Wi-Fi for connectivity. It chose Wi-Fi either automatically or because you chose that as the preferred connection.
Meanwhile, computers and phones will log into Wi-Fi automatically if you checked the box that says to do that when you first set up the connection.
Ed
ebastler:
Just to clarify, since Ed did not spell it out: Your phone has stored the password, from when you first connected manually to that WiFi network. The network wouldn't let you in "casually" without the password.
RJSV:
Thanks.
I had been thinking, a theory, that the system would revert to checking that my data traffic was coming from same phone number...that sort of thing, like bank / debit cards are starting to use, including the biometric stuff.
I keep edging up to signing up for beginner classes, here at nearby recreation dept.
Halcyon:
Cellular data doesn't originate from your phone number, in fact, it has nothing to do with your number at all, nor do you even need a number to access data via a cellular networks (data SIMs for example). It works using regular TCP/IP like the rest of the internet.
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