[OT] Excessive Wireless Traffic from iPhone running iOS5

[Pete]

I'm still not sure what was going on but I think I've finally figured out
what to do re iCloud.

In my wife's case, she has an iPhone and a laptop so I really don't see any
point in using iCloud - she'd just be sending data out to iCloud only for
it to be dragged back down to her laptop.  If she had an iPad or some other
computer, it would make sense to use iCloud. To say nothing of the fact the
laptop would have to be on Lion to access iCloud.

I've set her up to sync wirelessly directly to iTunes on her laptop which
seems to work just fine.  What I can't figure out is why Apple requires the
iPhone to be plugged into a power source to do this, when you can sync to
iCloud without that requirement.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
PS I really hope the "Big Brother" comment isn't true!!!




On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, jacques CLAVEL <jacques.clavel at gmail.com>wrote:

> BigBrother is watching you! Your IPhone is sending to Apple the
> localisation data recorded by your phone the previous days. This happens
> only when you have WIFI access.
>
> Jacques Clavel
>
> 2011/11/3 Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com>
>
> > A couple of weeks ago, I noticed an occasional  huge slowdown in internet
> > access from home.  Whenever this occurred, it was obvious from the lights
> > on my wireless router that a huge amount of wireless traffic was
> happening.
> >
> > In true old-fashioned trouble shooting mode, I tried to figure out what
> > might have changed in any computer setups in my home.  The only thing
> that
> > I could come up with was that my wife upgraded her iPhone to ios5 round
> > about the time this started happening.
> >
> > From the circumstances, I believe this is happening when the iPhone is
> > syncing wirelessly with iTunes on my wife's Mac laptop.  That only
> happens
> > over WiFi and when the phone is charging, both of which are the case when
> > this wireless traffic problem occurs.  I verified this by switching off
> > WiFi on the iuPhone last time this happened and sure enough, the wireless
> > traffic stopped.
> >
> > Have any of you iPhone users experienced anything similar to this?
> >  Obviously there has to be WiFi traffic for the iPhone to sync, but there
> > isn't that much data on my wife's iPhone so I'm not understanding the
> > extreme wireless activity.
> >
> > Meantime my Android phone has been wireless syncing perfectly for
> > months.....
> >
> > Pete
> > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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