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My issue isn't as serious as many others on this forum, but it is annoying me.
I have 3 wireless networks in the house (3 floors, lots of concrete - walls and floors - use Powerline networking and then an airport to create a network for each floor - works well and has done for a long time). My old, first generation, iPhone would automatically connect to the one with the strongest signal as I moved between floors. My new, iPhone 4, will not - it seems to stay on the network it was last on (I can see a very very weak signal from the other two networks when I am on a different floor - but so weak as to be unusable), and the iPhone4 seems to hold on to this signal for dear life.
Is there any way to tell it to automatically seek the strongest, rather than the last, WiFi network? I can obviously select the network manually, but this gets a bit annoying if I have to do it 10x each day.
Thanks.
Hendrix

There is no such option.
This was probably changed to be intended as a benefit to some or to most, but what may be a benefit to some or to most may not be a benefit to all as in your situation.

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