iphone - Connecting to wireless at work with a personal phones

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2014-07
  • DevWannaBe

    We all have personal data on our phones from Facebook, emails and websites. Is connecting our phone to work's wireless alright or it is recommended to forget about saving some data usage on the phone plan and just use the carrier's network?

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  • Matthew Williams

    That all depends on your company and its policies.

    Where I work, I have setup a second wireless network for personal phones and tablets etc which is completely outside our work firewall and logging. This way people do not have to use their plans, but also they do not get logged on the work network.


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  • John Fouhy

    When my iPhone is connected to my home wireless network, the internet is unusably slow. I installed the speedtest.net application; here are some results from tonight:

    • Down: 0.0kB/s, Up: 0.0kB/s, ping: 2230ms
    • Down: 2.5kB/s, Up: 40.5kB/s, ping: 2182ms
    • Down: 0.0kB/s, Up: 20.0kB/s, ping: 197ms

    For comparison, here is the result from my iMac to the same server, which is on the same wireless network (and has no wired connection):

    • Down: 139kB/s, Up: 53.8kB/s, ping: 182ms

    Neither my iMac nor the Dell laptop also on the network have experienced the wifi problems I get with my iPhone. On the other hand, I tried browsing a website on the wireless network at work with no problems.

    EDIT: SpeedTest at work gives me 156kB/s down. EDIT2: Girlfriend (owner of the Dell) reports actually the internet is sometimes very slow. Perhaps there is more going on. No problems with my iMac.

    My router is a ASUS WL-500g Premium V2 running OpenWrt Kamikaze with X-Wrt Extensions 8.09.


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  • Shawn Chin

    Perhaps a last-resort solution, but have you tried restoring (or upgrading if you haven't) the OS?

    I had the same problem when I first got the iPhone. Had slow connection and a weak signal even when I was sitting by the WiFi AP. Had some problems with weak carrier signal too.

    I dropped by the store and moaned about it the nice chap there recommended that I restored the OS (using iTunes). I did, and it worked!

    Edit

    Reread the title and just notice the "weak WiFi at home" bit. Is you WiFi connection better when using a different access point? The answer might indicate if it's something to do with your phone of your AP.

    Edit 2

    You could also try changing try changing you AP settings to something that suits the iPhone better.

    From: http://qelix.com/blog/2008/08/31/get-better-wifi-speeds-on-iphone-3g/

    Channel ID: Channel 9 (2452 Mhz)

    Protocol: 802.11 b (This is the most important bit. 802.11 b works better for iPhone, for some reason)

  • Portman

    This advice is not specific to the iPhone, but one of the first things I always do when people report one device being slower than others on a home network is turn off IPv6 everywhere:

    • Turn it off on your router
    • Turn it off on your Mac
    • Turn it off on your girlfriend's Dell
    • Turn it off on your iPhone, if that's possible

    A mixed IPv4/IPv6 network with clients/routers that "kind-of" understand IPv6 can cause all sorts of problems.