The Easy WiFi application gives you easy and free access to the Easy WiFi Network. With over 300,000 global hotspots, it is one of the largest WiFi networks in the world. You can also use the app to access other WiFi networks for which you have an existing account (for example AT&T in the USA or Orange in Europe). The app remembers your account credentials and logs you in automatically the next time you are trying to connect. And, if you are traveling to a different part of town or a different country, the app can display a map with all the hotspot locations at your destination.
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How to Use Easy WiFi
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Troubleshooting
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By default, Easy WiFi gives you free access to the Easy WiFi Network. If you have any of your own hotspot accounts you can add them (see Settings) and get a larger number of locations available for your use. Alternatively, you can switch the Easy WiFi Network off, and only use your own hotspots.
Start the app at an Easy WiFi hotspot to be logged in automatically. The Home screen shows connection status:
On some paid networks you might want to logout. You can login, exit the app, and return later to press the Logout button on the Home page.
Error Messages:
Joining: A limitation of the iPhone / iPod is that you must first join a network before Easy WiFi can try to log you in. Fortunately you only have to do this once for each new network. The Easy WiFi Network has lots of different names so you must look on the Map to find the name of the network at a new location you want to use. To join a network:
That's the basics of how to use Easy WiFi. For more information read on, or check easywifi.com.
The map shows all the places where you can gain access. You can enter text in the Search box the top of the screen to search around a place you want to visit, or you can find Wi-Fi nearby.
When you zoom down into the map, you will see blue pins marking the places where you can get connected. The bars on the pin give a near real-time indication of the service level you can expect. The more bars on the pin, the better!
You may also see amber pins on the map, with no bars. These mark the locations that have not been verified recently. They may still offer access to the internet, but there is also a possibility that they are no longer in service.
If you have turned on the option to show other network locations (see Settings), you may also see red pins. Those are network locations where you may need to pay for access, or perhaps obtain a single use access code from the venue.
If you touch a pin, the app shows you more information about the location, including the name of the network. Since the Easy WiFi Network is actually a "network of networks" you should note the name of the network if you are going to a new place and will need to join the network first (see Joining).
When zoomed out, the map shows circles representing an area of coverage. Unlike cellular coverage, Wi-Fi is still very much a local area technology, so be sure to zoom back into the area you're interested in to see exactly where the hotspots are!
Pressing the locate me button in the bottom left corner of the screen moves the map to your current location.
The status indicator in the top right corner of the app tells you the status of your Wi-Fi connection:
Not connected to Wi-Fi (though may still be online via the cellular data connection).
Yellow indicates that the app is busy testing, and if necessary authenticating.
If it remains for longer than a few seconds, it could also be trying to send
technical information about network connection errors to our server.
Green indicates that the Wi-Fi connection is up and your device is connected
to the internet using it.
When the status indicator turns red, the Wi-Fi network is up but the app was unable
to get connected to the internet. At hotspot locations that support it, you may
have seen a popup error message from the hotspot operator explaining
the problem.
In addition to indicating the current status, you can tap the indicator to open the heads up display control overlay. This overlay will give you the option to login or logout (depending on the current state of the network, and whether or not the hotspot you are connected at supports the operation).
At the bottom of the map, you will also see a selector for the map mode. This allows you to switch between normal and hybrid (map + satellite) display.
The history view shows where you have recently connected, listing the time, network, and device you used. If you have multiple devices associated with your account, the history display will show connections from all of them.
In the bottom right of the screen you will see the control to open the settings screen for the application.
If you do not want to use the Easy WiFi Network, you may turn it off using this switch. Doing so will hide all the Easy WiFi Network locations from the map, and also prevent the app from automatically logging you in at any of the locations where authentication is needed.
Tapping this will open a separate view that will show any additional hotspot accounts you have added to the service. You may edit the credentials for each of these, add new ones or even delete the accounts from this view.
Once you add accounts here, any locations that are accessible using those accounts will appear as 'in network' locations on the map view (ie blue pins).
Note: Since these settings are all maintained on our secure server, you will need a network connection (cellular or Wi-Fi) to be able to make these changes.
Sometimes it is useful to see if there are any other networks nearby, potentially requiring payment, registration or one-time codes to use. Turning this setting on will show these networks as red pins on the map view. Easy WiFi will not connect you to these automatically, you will need to figure it out yourself.
Easy WiFi will report its location back to our servers when it connects to the network, allowing our server to keep a real time view of the status of each hotspot location. If you do not want the location to be reported, you may switch reporting off via this switch.
Note: Switching off location reporting will also disable access to the Easy WiFi Network since we rely on the location data to be able to connect you to our network.
You can use this switch to opt out of our user community mailings. You will still receive any emails relating to the status of the service itself.
Note: This is an account-wide setting, so if you have multiple devices associated with your account, the last one you changed it on will take precedence.
If your login fails, you may get an error message from the network which can help you understand the problem. Quite often these are misleading or designed for network operators though and not regular users.
Assuming you have checked your user name and password are (still) OK, there are a few other things you can try:
If all of that works, please let us know by visiting our Forum at forum.devicescape.com and telling us as much as possible about the network you were trying, and the messages (if any) that you saw. That way we can check to see if we can find a reason for the problem, and what we can do to fix it.
There is lots of additional information available at easywifi.com, including a user manual at easywifi.com/iphone-manual.
For support, check our forum at forum.devicescape.com, or follow us on Twitter (@easywifi), and ask us for help there.Easy WiFi gathers some information about you and your use of Easy WiFi. We take your privacy very seriously so we store your information securely, and never share or sell any personally identifiable information with third parties. The information we store is:
You can read the full privacy policy at www.easywifi.com/privacy.
Devicescape makes a family of Easy WiFi products, for many different devices including PCs, Macs, iPhone and iPods, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian phones, and new types of connected electronics. Our vision is to make Wi-Fi as convenient and safe as cellular service in order to encourage great services and devices. For more information, check us out at devicescape.com.