10.23.07
Maemo Feature Request - Connection Switching!
The tablet works great when you leave your home or office connection and automatically switches over to your cellphone so you can stay connected. If you’ve set the connection preferences to auto-connect on any connection this “just happens…” though is not the default setting.
What I’d really like to see is a way for the cell connection to switch back to wifi when I walk into a known area so I maintain the best connection at all times. Ideally this would have preferences to let the user confirm they in fact wanted this to occur and even on which networks. This would let you stay on 3G if you wanted or prevent you from auto-switchng to open public networks (default, linksys, netgear etc) you might have added.
I know Devicescape and Boingo can help aggregate your wifi connections, but currently they do not work with your cell setup. The iPhone auto-switches back and forth between cell and wifi since it only supports EDGE and this gives the user a better sense of speed. Our Internet Tablets offer considerably more potential and should have this feature as well.
Piega said,
October 23, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Have you tested AutoAP ?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/autoap
Jonathan Greene said,
October 23, 2007 at 7:07 pm
@piega - I had not even heard of it until now, but in checking the site out it appears to be for the router, not the computer.
Quim Gil said,
October 24, 2007 at 12:03 am
Make sure you file this feature in the maemo channels i.e. http://maemo.org/community/wiki/roadmapwishlist/
Just copy&pasting this text in a new wiki page and linking it in the wishlist would be enough. In fact you coul even link from the wishlist here, as far as you leave comments open.
Jonathan Greene said,
October 24, 2007 at 12:20 am
@Quim - done! Added a link there under Maemo Community on that first page. Thanks!
maemo.org - RoadmapWishlist said,
October 24, 2007 at 3:19 am