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Re:iPhone X – Not Yet by mercer on Sunday October 29, 2017 @10:32AM (#15579450)
The one regression I've been experiencing is the wifi. I have pretty much unlimited 4G, but a very bad wifi connection in my bedroom.

Because of Apple's silly disabled-but-not-really wifi and bluetooth, my wifi keeps switching to on, seemingly randomly, but probably whenever it loses and then reacquires my home wifi.

As a result I have to keep turning wifi off in settings, which is a bit too rigorous, or I have to keep remembering to turn off wifi in the bedroom.

I can't help but feel there's a use-case myopia at Apple that, for whatever reason, is starting to become problematic. For me, at least, and I think I'm pretty much their ideal customer (aside from not having a wife and kids).

Re:iPhone X – Not Yet by skygazer on Sunday October 29, 2017 @05:58PM (#15581667)
I use a iOS VPN app called Speedify, that simultaneously bonds wifi/cellular channels into a single channel, ostensibly for speed sake. It seems to handle situations where either wifi or cellular is flakey, and even has a redundant mode, where all traffic is sent via both channels simultaneously. Redundant mode is not fast, but it is rock solid reliable. I use it if I want to make sure I don't drop a VOIP call.