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wifi strangeness
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writes On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:08:00 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: snip John has me worrying that having bullied her into switching on the wifi, she is now carting it around a hospital! Along with all the other patients, doctors and hospital staff you mean? ;-) I was more considering unwanted connections. -- Tim Lamb |
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wifi strangeness
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:41:00 +0000, Tim Lamb
wrote: In message , T i m writes On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:08:00 +0000, Tim Lamb wrote: snip John has me worrying that having bullied her into switching on the wifi, she is now carting it around a hospital! Along with all the other patients, doctors and hospital staff you mean? ;-) I was more considering unwanted connections. Connections 'to' A's phone over WiFi from some external device? I'd say most peoples smartphones have WiFi on all the time, unless they were specifically trying to save power etc? Cheers, T i m |
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wifi strangeness
On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:54:45 +0000, T i m wrote:
John has me worrying that having bullied her into switching on the wifi, she is now carting it around a hospital! Along with all the other patients, doctors and hospital staff you mean? ;-) I was more considering unwanted connections. Connections 'to' A's phone over WiFi from some external device? I'd say most peoples smartphones have WiFi on all the time, unless they were specifically trying to save power etc? Probably and even if on and searching for networks to connect to the vast majority these days are encrypted and need a password before any data connection is established (save for the one between the devices to authenticate). Of course having the thing hunting around all the time uses battery. -- Cheers Dave. |
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