Keeping 4g active when connected to wifi with no internet

[jcummins]

I did away with my home internet. Cost and wayyy under performance. Not many options in rural southern Illinois. At the same time changed my Verizon to unlimited...that is now my internet.

Generally it's worked better (cheaper too), but it has some limitations that I don't like. As the name of the thread implies, if I connect my phone to my home network, my phone cuts the 4G signal and looks to the wifi for the internet.

Anyone know if/how I can change that.

 

[k0ua]

I did away with my home internet. Cost and wayyy under performance. Not many options in rural southern Illinois. At the same time changed my Verizon to unlimited...that is now my internet.

Generally it's worked better (cheaper too), but it has some limitations that I don't like. As the name of the thread implies, if I connect my phone to my home network, my phone cuts the 4G signal and looks to the wifi for the internet.

Anyone know if/how I can change that.

Sure just shut off the wifi access on your phone, and you can either turn it back on when you leave your house if you want to connect to other wifi's out in the world or not. In android it is just a simple "slide switch" under settings, wifi. You can also tell it to "forget" this wifi signal.

Another question, is why on your router are you still broadcasting an SSID if you don't want to connect to it? Or do you want other devices to still connect for networking purposes? While you are at it turn off automatic connection to WiFi and you can be prompted to connect or not. But that may be more bother than you want.

 

[jcummins]

I didn't explain well enough. I want to be connected to my home network, but at the same time keep my 4G active. I normally don't connect to my wifi any more. One purpose is for printing.

 

[jcummins]

And I have turned off auto connect.

 

[jcummins]

I killed the config in the router for internet access, so there is no path to it. I thought doing that...it would use 4G...but it's not that smart.

 

[k0ua]

I didn't explain well enough. I want to be connected to my home network, but at the same time keep my 4G active. I normally don't connect to my wifi any more. One purpose is for printing.

OK, let me get this straight, You wish to still connect to your WIFI so you can print to network printers or retrieve or store files on networked "servers", BUT you dont want your phone to attempt to send out internet traffic thru your WIFI connection, because there is NO actual internet connection on the WAN port of your router and you want your internet traffic to go out your normal 4g radio connection. Does that sound about right?

How about this. You will need to go into your router and in your DHCP setup, you need to get rid of the default gateway and DNS address so the phone will not have a default gateway and try to shove out port 80 traffic over the wireless router.

 

[jcummins]

You got it right. And basically that's what I did in the router.

Now with services such as Verizon's unlimited, I think a design trait in the phones won't enable what I want to do.

 

[k0ua]

Well, I guess I am out of ideas...

 

[EarPlug]

If you are using your phone as a "hotspot" then the phone becomes the wifi router. The wifi on your network router cannot connect to the hotspot.

 

[jcummins]

No not using phone as a hotspot.

I found under developer options on the phone an option to keep mobile data on AT all times, even if Wi-Fi is on. It sounds like what I want....but it appears it simply does not work. Grrrr.