iOS jumps wifi networks

[browolf]

We've noticed, when joining wifi, the lightspeed logon page doesn't always come up straight away and is easily missed. And/or people cancel the page because they don't want internet access at that time.

 

trouble is IOS devices periodically check for internet access and if they don't find it, they tend to jump onto the next known network. Which in our case is an open and vlanned guest network.

 

this wouldn't normally be a problem but teachers who use apple tv are complaining their ipads are jumping networks in the middle of lessons and disconnecting their apple tvs. (when their lightspeed session times out)

 

we've determined the url the devices connect to is http://www.appleiphonecell.com/ which is simply an html page that says "success"

 

so the easiest way to fix this problem would be allow the ipads access to that url without having to authenticate lightspeed. There's a section in the authentication module for domain exemptions. But it's greyed out... and we're having a tough time making oneconnect understand the situation.

Edited November 17, 2014 by browolf