Re:SpareOne: Emergency mobile phone powered by AA batteries
by art0rz on Sunday May 15, 2016 @04:42PM
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I've had WiFi signals in the middle of fields in Belgium and France while hiking, nothing around for miles except for a tree here and there, I check my phone and suddenly there's WiFi. I've seen two open hotspots with paywalls, too. I figured the closed ones must have been for some farm equipment or something, but couldn't find anything.
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Re:SpareOne: Emergency mobile phone powered by AA batteries
by Daniel_sk on Sunday May 15, 2016 @06:00PM
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Was it an Android phone? If yes, than that's one of the less known but not so rare bugs. Sometimes the WiFi network will be stuck in the "in range" state even though you are already too far away. It happened to me a few times (I could see my home network even though I was in a different country :-)). Trying to connect will fail. Switching Airplane mode on/off will fix it.