Replies to post #59327 on Calypso Wireless (fka CLYW)

[Lurker202]

I do not believe that distance has any bearing whether a phone will switch to a wifi access point or stay on a GSM or CDMA connection.
The device doesn't care if it is 10' or a 1000' away. It's all about signal strength.
That's the point IMO. Your phone should switch to a wifi connection based on the quality of the connection. Not based on a "predetermined distance".
I have excellent signal strength from over 500' on a system I manage moving 12mph in a metal structure. And for hundreds of feet the signal strength fluctuates up and down but stays in the same relative value.
If a distance maximum was set at 200' well then I couldn't use the wifi connection. I don't see that being very useful.

If CLYW's patent is held up by a pre-established distance value well then we are fkd.