I have an iPhone 4 jailbroken on iOS 5.0.1. I recently got a Seagate GoFlex Satellite HDD. The drive works great for streaming video and pics to any device. My problem is with the wifi networks on my iPad 2. Apparently iOS devices automatically connect to the last wifi network it had connected to. Since the Satellite drive broadcasts a wifi signal I have to disconnect from my home network and connect to the Satellite HDD network.
I was wondering if there was an app or tweak that would give wifi networks priority. That way I could set the Satellite HDD as the priority network and whenever I turned it on my iDevices would automatically connect.
There used to be a jailbreak app (YFiSelect I think?) that used to make it easy to switch networks, but you still had to tap the screen to make it switch. I don't think it works on iOS 5, anyway.
It sounds like that drive is not 100% ready. I would much rather have one of those drives if it could join an existing network instead. The way it looks now, it's not flexable enough.
If you're connected to the drive's network, do you also loose your internet connection?
You are correct, you can't get online while using the drive. The drive broadcasts it's own wifi signal that only connects to the drive and not the Internet. I really don't need Internet with the drive because if I'm watching a movie I'm not going to be surfing the web. I just wish that if I was on a wifi network and I turned my satellite drive on, as soon as my iPad saw the new network pop up it would connect automatically.
If they could figure a way to piggy back off of existing wifi that would be great but I wouldn't want to give up the feature of broadcasting it's own signal in case there is no wifi.
Not really sure why they included the term "Flex" in the title of their product, given it's limitations...
It really shouldn't be hard to make a device that will either connect to an exisiting network (after entering the settings, of course) or set up its own hotspot if the preferred network is not available.
I don't know of any current way to do this, since it's probably so much of a corner case that nobody has really put much effort into solving. I guess you need to be GoFlexable when you want to use it at home.
If you can't find a way to automatically switch networks, you might be interested in adding a WiFi shortcut from http://brdrck.me/settings and at least reduce the amount of screen taps you need to do it manually.
Doesn't tapping on the network's SSID try to connect you to the other network without disconnecting from the first network beforehand? If the second network has a passphrase, you have to enter it the first time. After that it connects automatically when you tap the name.
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