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My connection using both SGS2 Hotspot and usb tethering seems very shakey and I suspect that it falls out of connection in spikes now and then.
I have run a couple of speed tests which give varying results. But is there a software or somewhere online I can run a prolonged constant test of my connection to determine if it drops and loses connection?
Thanks for any advice.
Hm... I tried that and mine is running on 6,3 - 6,7 MB/s via data connection (usb tether)... Didn't try WiFi tho....
So it's not really worth to talk about my results...
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My wifi tends to drop from a solid connection (50-65 mbps) to a crappy connection (2-5 mbps) no matter what rom I am running. Was wondering if anyone else has this problem? Possible fix?
It will constantly drop data connectivity...market will give error, browser gives error.
Connection starts at the solid levels then within 1 minute or so drops to the crappy level, with excellent signal. that's what makes me really mad..it's got perfect signal and **** connection. any help appreciated.
Hi,
What ROM are you using?
I think you should first check your wireless LAN/router location, modem and LAN setup through yr desktop. Check if it is any enable firewall in yr setup, try to disable it. Test wifi connection using yr laptop, check it any drop or not. Try again at same time using laptop and yr vibrant in several distance from wireless router. Try also WPS if you have it.
If your laptop no problem, and phone wifi drop, you might to try reflashing ROM.
Before that, you may try also Wifi analyser, install it from Market.
Good luck.
no firewall on router. get great signal on desktop(no laptop), great speeds from router on my old g1. only the vibrant. doesn't matter which rom, 2.2 or 2.2.1. they all do it. starting to think it's a faulty unit...
wish my g1 had a decent camera on it, i'd record how fast the wifi drops.
oh, i set up a static IP since posting this..it's helped somewhat with the error boxes poppin up but the connection is still dirt slow.
edit: i'm on stock kb1 w/tigerblood v3 kernal ATM..been on bionix v, most of EDT's releases all with same result..only thing i haven't flased is CM7 cuz it's still an early build. oh and Frost..don't like white so it never made the cut.
Hi,
I think any ROMs have no problem on wifi, except originally a broken unit. I dont know how you flash ROMs, but try to a clean install starting from ODIN and stock vibrant on each flashing.
- Is your wifi secured?
- Do you use internet security on your desktop? Check the firewall or network/LAN setup managed by security package on comp desktop, and allow your new phone device.
Good luck.
All of my devices used to do this until I changed some settings on my router. It was set to only handle 15 devices at a time, so I set it to 50 and I had no more problems. Maybe yours is set to a very low number, I can't remember the exact settings, but hope I helped
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Nope I can handle up to 150 devices in my dhcp client list...not that that really matters seeing as how I got it set on a static ip and its still dropping signal. Thanks though..starting to feel like it's a bad unit..i don't want to exchange it though.its got great gps. Any other ideas??
Edit: forgot the other guy..wifi is secured. Wpa2 personal. No firewall on desktop..wouldnt matter anyways.
Little info on router...linksys e4200 dual band n with the 5 ghz band disabled because no thing on the network usesit ATM. Router is a beast really and performs awesome with every other device in the house.
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Well the Atrix seemed to be performing very nicely thank you - until I accepted the OTA update. It's seemed very slow on network performance, so I downloaded speedtest.net app - getting BEST case 1.3M down and just 150k up, most of the time lower than that.
Showing H+ for the connection and 4 bars on this test. Most of the time it's under 1M for down and 113k for up. I know the 4G upload is supposed to be crippled but seems to me it should be doing much better on down than this.
I stopped just about all running applications to verify it wasn't something messing with the OS.
Any ideas folks ? Factory reset and start over ?
I haven't heard of this popping IP, you should definitely factory reset and start over :/
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That happened to me..turned it off&back on and that solved the problem.
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Can I ask if your allowing enough time for heavy network load to pass? Ie try it again at 6am or midnight?
I don't know if its just me but, my phone seems slow while on my home wifi. I haven't checked wifi anywhere else. And my signal on the phone seems to be weak at times even while sitting in the same room with my router. My cappy seems faster in this area. Also streaming some video seems to be slower on my sgs2 vs my cappy at times. Any tips/advice...?
BTW..my device is vanilla as of yet...
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Well, at present, I'm on Cognition. So, I can't give an exact parallel as far as circumstances and setups; however, my phone is extremely fast when running on my wifi connection at home. I haven't really focused much on the reception, but from what I remember it has been excellent as well. If I'm in the same room, it's completely full. If I'm elsewhere in the house I still tend to have decent reception(more than just the one bar).
I'm not sure what to suggest for better performance outside of possibly considering flashing an alternative ROM instead of just running it stock. The process, overall, is honestly quite simple. I do understand though that some people like to run the phone the way that it came out of the box. It's just a suggestion.
Outside of that I mean maybe an issue between your router and your phone, but honestly I doubt that.
I appreciate the response. I'm puzzled by this...as I am no expert I'm also not new to flashing roms. My cappy is on a modded rom. I'm just giving the devs time to work out the bugs! Thanx again!
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The BCM4330 used in a LOT of mobile devices just plain doesn't seem to like some routers.
At my home, the signal strength always looks low before connecting on my GS2, Tab 10.1, and Infuse (All BCM4330) - then it suddenly looks better when I connect.
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Entropy512 said:
The BCM4330 used in a LOT of mobile devices just plain doesn't seem to like some routers.
At my home, the signal strength always looks low before connecting on my GS2, Tab 10.1, and Infuse (All BCM4330) - then it suddenly looks better when I connect.
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Hates D-Link (battery drain, loss of range).
Loves Netgear (less battery drain than HSPA, excellent range).
At least that's the case with the international version.
Have a NetGear and my wifi flies. of the couple dozen or so routers I have set up for family and friends NetGear seem to always be the easiest to set up, connect the most consistently, and give the best all around speeds for both net surfing and console gaming.
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My phone was downloading normal speeds earlier. Then I rooted in and flashed Cognition X2 beta 4.
Now my speeds are REALLY slow. (takes forever to download something as small as 4 Mb...)
Idk if anyone else is having the same issue
check your router for firmware updates, if there are, appy them and then retest if your speeds are still slow
Interesting..as I am using a d-link gaming router. Will have to check into firmware update..had the router a few years never updated it.
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ive had a number of friends that get new phones and have complaints like:
whats wrong with my phone it wont connect to my router, or get sporadic connections, drop for no reason, slow x-fers...
first thing i do is update the firmware, you'd be suprised at how many issues can get 'fixed' when your router gets updated.
so, i'd start there first..
Yea, I'm going to give that a try..thanks for the heads up..!
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hi.
Since I do not have any data plan, I pretty much depend on open W-Fi network to get a connection, which are often far away so I get a poor signal.
I have noticed my phone can't handle a poor Wi-Fi connection as good as an iPhone / iPod can. When I place my phone and my friend's iPhone close to each other and connect both of them to the same, distant network, the iPhone would get a slow but stable connection while my phone would frequently lose connection to the router. My phone also would not connect to some distant network at all while the iPhone can connect to them.
Is there any way to make the Wi-Fi work better? Maybe some hardware fix similar to the GPS hardware fix, or perhaps some system files I can change so the phone would not "give up" so fast if the network connection is poor?
Thanks a lot.
ICS glitch does include pmfast mode which may increase wifi
Only. Things I can think of..
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You can install Wifi Killer if you want to have fun with your iphone friends
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trailblazerz11 said:
ICS glitch does include pmfast mode which may increase wifi
Only. Things I can think of..
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I will try it, thanks.
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You can install Wifi Killer if you want to have fun with your iphone friends
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Very creative solution although I use the Wi-Fi only when theres no one around to talk with, for example when I am at a bus stop or during a (very) boring class.
I am running ICS in a Thunderbolt with radios 2.02.00.1117r (CDAM) & 0.02.02.1211r (LTE) and Build number 7.02.605.06 710RD (debloated rooted ICS official ROM). I noticed that the Wifi Tether is working extremely slow (Download:1.5mbps) however when doing a speedtest from the phone it is very fast (Download: 20mbps-26mbps)
I tried several combination of other ROMS and different radios (all of them) and Wifi Tether is behaving the same way.
Anyone having the same problem? If so, how did you solve it?
Wifi Tether is running with the following settings:
Device-Profiel: Generic ICS/JB (wlan0)
Wifi driver reload: Checked
MSS Clamping: Checked
Routing Fix: Checked
Disable Wake-Lock: checked
Any help will be appreciated.
Disable mss clamping and change the device profile to rezound. Those are the settings I use and it never goes that slow. Speed tests also aren't very reliable sources of information. They will give you different results every time.
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Thank you very much for your response. I applied the changes and it still is working very slow. I get 20mbps on my phone and under the same conditions i get et 2mbps on my tablet. BTW tablet is fine.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Thank you very much for your response. I applied the changes and it still is working very slow. I get 20mbps on my phone and under the same conditions i get et 2mbps on my tablet. BTW tablet is fine.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Stop doing a speed test. The results are probably false. Unless you have the WiFi power consumption setup to use less power on your tablet.
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Stop doing a speed test. The results are probably false. Unless you have the WiFi power consumption setup to use less power on your tablet.
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Thanks. However when i do my speedtest in a wifi fios service i get consistent speeds of 88 mbps to the same server on the same tablet under the same conditions.
Stopping speedtest is NOT a valid response.
Any more suggestions from anyone else?
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Thanks. However when i do my speedtest in a wifi fios service i get consistent speeds of 88 mbps to the same server on the same tablet under the same conditions.
Stopping speedtest is NOT a valid response.
Any more suggestions from anyone else?
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So you're saying that when you speed test the tablet using fios powered wifi you get 88mbps and you expect the phone to tether at exactly the same speed. The reason I'm telling you to stop speed testing from your tablet when connected to the phone tether is because the speed test can't tell just how fast the speed between the phone and tether is. You'll never get a consistent result because of that. Also, the tether isn't going to come even close to what you can get at fios and I can see why it seems so slow compared to that. I tether my phone to my tablet everyday and I always get equal download speeds using real tests such as downloading a large file. Not by speed testing the connection.
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So you're saying that when you speed test the tablet using fios powered wifi you get 88mbps and you expect the phone to tether at exactly the same speed. The reason I'm telling you to stop speed testing from your tablet when connected to the phone tether is because the speed test can't tell just how fast the speed between the phone and tether is. You'll never get a consistent result because of that. Also, the tether isn't going to come even close to what you can get at fios and I can see why it seems so slow compared to that. I tether my phone to my tablet everyday and I always get equal download speeds using real tests such as downloading a large file. Not by speed testing the connection.
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I think you did not understand my posting. I test speeds IN THE PHONE and they are about 18mbps, however when tethering and web browsing, the tablet is very slow. Speedtest in the tablet is less than 1mbps. Difficult to watch netflix on my tablet with that connection.
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I think you did not understand my posting. I test speeds IN THE PHONE and they are about 18mbps, however when tethering and web browsing, the tablet is very slow. Speedtest in the tablet is less than 1mbps. Difficult to watch netflix on my tablet with that connection.
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I know your speed test ON THE PHONE is up to 20. WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS THAT THE SPEED YOUR TABLET TESTS AT AFTER TETHERING TO YOUR PHONE MAY NOT REPORT TO SPEEDTEST CORRECTLY. Did you gather what I'm trying to tell you now?
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Example: When I use WiFi with my ps3 and test the connection I get 12 down and 1.5 up everytime. Once I tether even over 4g it shows 1.5 down and doesn't show anything for up usually. It get on average 30-35 down with 4g in my area and 18up on a good day. I will test this tonight with my tablet and screen shot the results for you so you can see that speedtest isn't accurate on the secondary connection.
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I've seen the same and can confirm the speeds should be equal. Tethering should pass thru whatever speed it's getting regardless of what you're sharing your bandwith with.
Have you tried testing from any other devices?
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