As someone who still has a plan with a "adorably small data cap", I'm happy and worried at the same time. I'm happy because, as most other people, I too have had to disconnect from hotspots with captive portals manually, in order to get the phone to switch to mobile data. But I'm also worried that this fancy new algorithm will choose 3G instead of WiFi much often and sometimes against my will, effectively reaching the cap much faster.
My Android 4.2 phone already does something similar with WiFi networks where it says it "avoided a poor connection", which is annoying when you're trying to connect to that "poor" connection precisely, and even worse when it ditches the "poor" connection... for one with a captive portal, leaving me with a super fast connection, indeed, but which only leads to a login page.
As someone with a capped plan who often prefers slow-but-unlimited to fast-but-limited connections, I'd like to be able to disable the automatic switch, and I really hope they add an option for that. In this day and age though, everything seems to be moving in the direction of less and less configurability...
It's worse when the "poor" connection is because you're in the edge of its coverage area, so you move right next to the router... and it still won't connect, because it decided that this network was a "poor" connection and memorized that decision. Happened to me a few days ago. Luckily, leaving it alone for a few minutes cured that and it connected.
My Android 4.2 phone already does something similar with WiFi networks where it says it "avoided a poor connection", which is annoying when you're trying to connect to that "poor" connection precisely, and even worse when it ditches the "poor" connection... for one with a captive portal, leaving me with a super fast connection, indeed, but which only leads to a login page.
As someone with a capped plan who often prefers slow-but-unlimited to fast-but-limited connections, I'd like to be able to disable the automatic switch, and I really hope they add an option for that. In this day and age though, everything seems to be moving in the direction of less and less configurability...