Possible to make WI-FI connection always on when possible?

[GadiShoshani]

Hello again Reg/Software techies! :D

Is it possible to make a Reg tweak / software to auto detect Wifi ?
so that i wont have to set it up every time?

10x in advance,

[timetex]

That would be lovely...

There are tools available to turn it on/off at certain times of the day - but I guess, without it being "on", it can't detect the presence of a network, and thus it is a catch-22.

Best I can think of, is for it to be turned on every x minutes, and set to disconnect if it isn't connected to a network for >1 minute - thereby it would keep cycling around, but you could feasibly walk into a WiFi area and not pickup signal for as long as "x-1" minutes. Lets say you get it to check every 10 minutes, you could wait as long as 9 minutes after walking into a hotspot before it picked up the signal and stayed connected.

[BrettS]

That would be lovely...

There are tools available to turn it on/off at certain times of the day - but I guess, without it being "on", it can't detect the presence of a network, and thus it is a catch-22.

Best I can think of, is for it to be turned on every x minutes, and set to disconnect if it isn't connected to a network for >1 minute - thereby it would keep cycling around, but you could feasibly walk into a WiFi area and not pickup signal for as long as "x-1" minutes. Lets say you get it to check every 10 minutes, you could wait as long as 9 minutes after walking into a hotspot before it picked up the signal and stayed connected.

That's a really interesting thought. I wonder how well that would work (at least in terms of saving battery).

What I think the original poster wanted, however, is to give the Universal the ability to automatically connect to each unsecured network that it finds without any user intervention. Battery life aside, you can leave WiFi on all the time, but if it detects a network it prompts you before it connects.

Brett

[GadiShoshani]

although - it would be nice to tell the device:
search for an unsecured wi-fi connection every 2 minutes.

if it disconnects - in another 2 minutes it will search another connection anyway!! 8)
(as for batt. life - true. HOWEVER- if its a prog. that does it, it doesnt have to be ALWAYS on...)

Well, is there such a programm or option for this?

any 1?