iPhone Utilites: Find Wi-Fi Networks through your iPhone

In a big city with loads of Wi-Fi networks and struggling to find out
an open one? Now your iPhone helps you in that. Use the Setting Wi-Fi
dialog to connect to an open network.

The WiFinder app is here to help you:
1. It checks the local networks to see which are open.
2. It then attempts to connect to them and retrieve the web page of a
popular web browser.
3. If it manages to go through it flashes green check mark indicating
that it is safe to use.
The app catches those Wi-Fi with very low signal strengths, staffs
that generally Apple’s Wi-Fi settings do not catch.

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:b17b06dc-d132-441b-a0fe-
23167619f882@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> In a big city with loads of Wi-Fi networks and struggling to find out
> an open one? Now your iPhone helps you in that. Use the Setting Wi-Fi
> dialog to connect to an open network.
>
> The WiFinder app is here to help you:
> 1. It checks the local networks to see which are open.
> 2. It then attempts to connect to them and retrieve the web page of a
> popular web browser.
> 3. If it manages to go through it flashes green check mark indicating
> that it is safe to use.
> The app catches those Wi-Fi with very low signal strengths, staffs
> that generally Apple’s Wi-Fi settings do not catch.
>

Geez, Vic. It should have had a scanner all along! It doesn't??

Maybe someone will port Kismet or one of the wap decoders we use on the
Maemo tablets to it that will give you their WAP passwords....(c;

On Sep 4, 10:50*am, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> 4phun <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:b17b06dc-d132-441b-a0fe-
> 23167619f...@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
>
> > In a big city with loads of Wi-Fi networks and struggling to find out
> > an open one? Now your iPhone helps you in that. Use the Setting Wi-Fi
> > dialog to connect to an open network.
>
> > The WiFinder app is here to help you:
> > 1. It checks the local networks to see which are open.
> > 2. It then attempts to connect to them and retrieve the web page of a
> > popular web browser.
> > 3. If it manages to go through it flashes green check mark indicating
> > that it is safe to use.
> > The app catches those Wi-Fi with very low signal strengths, staffs
> > that generally Apple’s Wi-Fi settings do not catch.
>
> Geez, Vic. *It should have had a scanner all along! *It doesn't??
>
> Maybe someone will port Kismet or one of the wap decoders we use on the
> Maemo tablets to it that will give you their WAP passwords....(c;

The internal wifi application does not do more that tell you that a
signal exists and if it is locked or unlocked. You have to test each
one for more details. This app tests all signals automatically looking
for the prefect open system.