VanWifi by Shaw

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by skymaster

Its not your phone. Shaw purposely manages the wireless signal strength on their AP's so that the signal doesn't go beyond the premises of the business/area they installed at.

It's actually kind of annoying because sometimes my phones Wi-Fi will automatically connect to an AP if it can manage to get 1 bar. Then I'll get confused on why my data isn't working only to notice that I'm now on a unstable Wi-Fi connection. This also happens when I'm driving and stopped at a traffic light. The smart Wi-Fi capabilities on the phone also don't really do a good job switching between mobile data and Wi-Fi. I'm using the Note 8 but also experienced the same with the Nexus 6P.

There is a setting in android to manage crappy WiFi signals, and prefer mobile data instead. Even if your flavour of android doesn't support it, 3rd party apps exist to do the same thing.