I have been noticing that the WiFi Reception is wayy better than any other phone.
I'm getting strong signals in places were the signal went away in my home using the OG EVO, Epic 4g or the Hero.
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Same. Was going to post this as well.
I'm coming from the moment, but yesterday I Picked up Wifi in a spot I knew it existed, but never could get my phone find it. I just thought it was HTC standard. VERY impressed. Gotta love when speed test gets your phone up to 27MB/s via wifi.
Very true
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Just did speedtest on old and new Evo.
4g ping in 91 ms, download .5 mbps, upload .99 mbps.
3d ping 18 ms, dl 18.14 mbps, ul 3.27.
That is amazing.
Same here. I am getting avg. of 1mb faster on 3g and 3-4mbs FASTER on WiFi in my room
4g seems the same
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rockypr said:
I have been noticing that the WiFi Reception is wayy better than any other phone.
I'm getting strong signals in places were the signal went away in my home using the OG EVO, Epic 4g or the Hero.
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Way better then the wifi on the Palm Pre (v1). I'm able to walk about 15 foot or so farther and remain connected to the home WLAN.
I'm having all sorts of issues with WiFi. it seems to be broadcast storming my network when requesting a DHCP address. The sprint store told me the only way to connect it to wifi was to put it airplane mode, then enable wifi. Well that didn't work for me.
Any suggestions would help.
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"Best wi-fi performance"
I was getting terrible wi-fi reception at home and at work (very short range, dropped connections), then I found an option buried in the wi-fi "advanced" settings called "best wi-fi performance" which warns that it "may consume more power." Turned it on and immediately got a full-strength signal. First speed test from my office, where I had previously been unable to connect at all, got 16278kbps down and 4110kbps up. Guess I'll keep that option checked.
16129 down and 3655 up using my WFI with Comcast as my base broadband provider. I did enable "best WFI".
aimbdd said:
Same. Was going to post this as well.
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Me too!!!!
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jfenton57 said:
16129 down and 3655 up using my WFI with Comcast as my base broadband provider. I did enable "best WFI".
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Out fo curiosity, what's been the hit on battery with this option?
Wifi signal is great, however this is the 3rd HTC phone I've had that wont stay connected to wifi. I get no service in my house so wifi is a must, however after some time it disconnects, then tries to reconnect but hangs on "AUTHENTICATING WITH WIRELESS". My galaxy s 4g never disconnected on me, but the mytouch 3g, mytouch 4g and now my evo 3d cant hold a connection.
It's good, but it gets better when your in WiFi settings, tap menu button, hit advanced, and click best WiFi performance.
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Agreed I can actually get a signal OUTSIDE of my house. I am very pleased with the wifi reception
I was getting 3m down, 1m up with my rooted Hero. My laptop gets 20m down 5m up. The 3vo is getting 14m down, 4m up; amazing!
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Hows the tethering for you guys on sprint since I hear that the sprint service is subpar, I'm currently on tmo an have a nexus s an just got a text saying I had reached my data cap so they slow down my data, an I use my tether a lot on my laptop, so I come her to ask how the tethering is for you guys an if I do come to sprint I will be picking up a evo 3d most likely...
My tethering is just fine If I recall correctly I get 150-350kbs on 3g.
Just tried 4g and pulled 3.5Mb. I have seen up to 6Mb.
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My tethering is just fine If I recall correctly I get 150-350kbs on 3g.
Just tried 4g and pulled 3.5Mb. I have seen up to 6Mb.
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That's all you are getting on 3g? How bad is your signal? I consistently pull around 1 to 1.1Mb on 3g.. There are some tweaks that you can apply to boost your speed.. Check the developer section.
**edit** Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1140870
That is bad I get 1.2 on my phone 1.4 tethering my tab and computer
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I haven't ran a speed test but when I 4g tether to my laptop it loads everything (including youtube) as fast as my 10mb/s home broadband.
So is their service as bad as people say?
carlost24 said:
So is they service as bad as people say?
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Depends where you are. At work I get about 1000 down, at home around 500-700. I get a about 5000 down on 4G but only outside with a weak signal.
I can drive from metro west MA to Central NH and be connected 3G the whole way with varying data rates !! Pretty impressive.
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So is they service as bad as people say?
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No its not, coming from vzw I have had no issue with Sprint. I'm also in the metrowest MA area. And you roam on vzw free!
I have a Motorola Xoom and I get 72Mbps on Wireless N 2.4ghz, and while at the same time I am getting 6Mbps in the same location on the Moto Photon . I have a Netgear 4000 (N750) and I am about 7ft away with both devices. Is the WiFi Radio that Horrible in the Photon. Wireless SUCKS. I am on Channel 11 (the only person in the neighborhood, everyone else is still on default channel 6).
Anyone else having this issue. I just got this today and Love the phone, and but the Wireless is Terrible and may force me to take it back. I have Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner Plus 25Mbps Down & 2Mbps Up. I am baffled. Unless the Photon Wireless Radio SUCKS BALLS. I have updated the PRL & Profile.
What are you using to check your wifi speeds? Is it the same app on both?
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What are you using to check your wifi speeds? Is it the same app on both?
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I am using WiFi Analyzer on my Xoom only. I called Moto and Sprint and it has been escalated. 6Mbps is Rediclous. I have been doing this IT thing for 15+ years (installed AP's, Routers, Switches etc.etc) and NEVER have seen a WiFi Signal fluxuate like the Photon's does (from 72Mbps to 11Mbps in the matter of a couple of minutes or if I move around). I even turned off my 5ghz SSID and that did not help. It's really wierd.
Edit: I am now using the same WiFi Analyzer on my Photon and it shows the same results
Is 6Mbps too slow to load things on a phone? I guess I'm confused what you'd need more speed for on a phone...
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I have a Motorola Xoom and I get 72Mbps on Wireless N 2.4ghz, and while at the same time I am getting 6Mbps in the same location on the Moto Photon . I have a Netgear 4000 (N750) and I am about 7ft away with both devices. Is the WiFi Radio that Horrible in the Photon. Wireless SUCKS. I am on Channel 11 (the only person in the neighborhood, everyone else is still on default channel 6).
Anyone else having this issue. I just got this today and Love the phone, and but the Wireless is Terrible and may force me to take it back. I have Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner Plus 25Mbps Down & 2Mbps Up. I am baffled. Unless the Photon Wireless Radio SUCKS BALLS. I have updated the PRL & Profile.
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I'm seeing 18/17mb down and ~10 up using speedtest on my 802.11n 2.4ghz wifi.. dlink router if it makes a difference, using wpa2
(my internet's capable of 50/10)
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Just out of curiosity I ran a speed test
- i have 22x5 Connection. Only 1 bar signal on the wifi meters on the phone cause I'm pretty far from my router. Not too bad though.
Test Date: Aug 17, 2011 12:06:54 am
Connection Type: Wifi
Server: Minnesota City, MN
Download: 20891 kbps
Upload: 3137 kbps
Ping: 14 ms
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ghodzilla5150 said:
I have a Motorola Xoom and I get 72Mbps on Wireless N 2.4ghz, and while at the same time I am getting 6Mbps in the same location on the Moto Photon . I have a Netgear 4000 (N750) and I am about 7ft away with both devices. Is the WiFi Radio that Horrible in the Photon. Wireless SUCKS. I am on Channel 11 (the only person in the neighborhood, everyone else is still on default channel 6).
Anyone else having this issue. I just got this today and Love the phone, and but the Wireless is Terrible and may force me to take it back. I have Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner Plus 25Mbps Down & 2Mbps Up. I am baffled. Unless the Photon Wireless Radio SUCKS BALLS. I have updated the PRL & Profile.
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I'm getting 20Mbps down on WiFi with a Dlink 4500 Wireless N router.
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Is 6Mbps too slow to load things on a phone? I guess I'm confused what you'd need more speed for on a phone...
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It's not too slow, BUT my Xoom gets ALOT better WiFi reception (has a better WiFi Radio). I feel the WiFi Radio in the Photon is Crap (8 Radio's in the Photon and the most important one is garbage, alot of people will use WiFi). Hopefully there is a Firmaware update that fixes it. We don't buy these expensive WiFi Routers to get 6Mbps. Even the guys at Sprint agreed with me. That's low. Should see at least 28Mbps and above with the router I have.
I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine after doing this for so long, I know what I should be getting and it bothers me. Especially when WIFi Analyzer says my signal is Awesome.
new to androids and sprint so I searched the forums and found nothing related to my issue, so here goes.
I have a sprint air rave at my house and when i do internet speed tests whether it be through an app or a website i can manage barely 2mbps DL and sub 600k UL
When i turn wifi on i get my normal 10mbps DL and ~2mbps UL that i would get through my PC's...can someone tell me if its an airrave setting or is it just the way that the phone is set up to work with the air rave?
im Running Synergy rev 344 on my Evo 3d
This is because the airwaves uses Evdo while you use speedtest. If you turn off the airaves and perform a test again you're not using evdo you're using your home wifi.
You should be able to use wifi while the airraves on, just go into quick settings and turn off mobile network before you perform a speed test. Make sire to turn it back on when you're done!
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thanks for the quick response! so i guess it was the way that the air rave is programmed (i had a inkling that that might have been the reason)
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I have a sprint air rave at my house and when i do internet speed tests whether it be through an app or a website i can manage barely 2mbps DL and sub 600k UL
When i turn wifi on i get my normal 10mbps DL and ~2mbps UL that i would get through my PC's...can someone tell me if its an airrave setting or is it just the way that the phone is set up to work with the air rave?
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tried google searching but i couldn't find any explicit stating of airave speeds.
wifi hardware on the evo 3d has the greatest speeds of all the radios on the device.
airave is using pure cell phone, 3g/evdo technology to communicate with the device which has bandwidth limitations.
to list the radios in the phone in order of speeds i've seen:
1) wifi, 2) wimax, 3) 3g/evdo/airave, 4) 1x
i also have an airave at home and i never thought to run a speed test on it. i usually flip on wifi if i need to pull down a lot of data while at home. mainly just use the airave for placing/receiving voice calls and sometimes text.
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You should be able to use wifi while the airraves on, just go into quick settings and turn off mobile network before you perform a speed test. Make sire to turn it back on when you're done!
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turning on wifi with an airave and w/o works the same as with a cell tower signal and without.
when wifi is turned on android switches data to operate over the wifi radio and leaves voice/text over the cell radio which will go through either the airave or the sprint tower.
when wifi is turned off android switches data back to going over the cell radio which uses either the airave or the sprint tower, whichever has better signal.
hope that makes sense and helps!
No problem
Yeah the airave just gives you evdo speeds not wifi also be aware that it won't know if you're calling a mobile phone or a landline, so any minutes used to call will be deducted from your monthly minutes.
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both of those are awesome pieces of advice!
yea i tried to google it also but couldnt find squat on the airrave speeds, lol i usually have wifi on at my house but i was curious to find out the throughput speeds of the airrave.
and also thanks for the info on the cell calls....when sprint sent it to me...they didnt say a word about the air rave not knowing if i was calling a cell or landline so i will definatly have to watch who i call from now on
Ya it really depends on what person you get from tech support. I don't know this from first hand experience only what i was told by a tech rep, mine won't be here for a few weeks as they're on backorder :/ so maybe the rep that told me was wrong, just pay attention until we know for sure
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Am I the only one who has noticed poor 3G on this phone? Even poor for sprint standards. Especially at places where I normally get my best data I'm getting piss poor and even going into roaming. My desk at work is usually where I get my best speeds and now I can barely send a text message. I've only had the phone for a week but since I've got it 3G has been awful and even WiFi hasn't been spot on... I fails a lot dropping signal if my screen turns off for to long which sucks when I'm downloading a Rom or something of the sort, and before you ask I do have it set to keep WiFi on while the screen is off. I love the phone and would hate to get rid of it because I can't use it. So hopefully its not just me maybe sprint has something going in my area that started the moment I got my phone... I'm in Orlando, FL and I'm running stock with root
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Call sprint, check for tower upgrades in your area.
Make sure your updating your prl and profile too
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Naw ur not the only one....with all the upgrades to both the 3g and 4g LTE my 3g has been hit and miss.....good some days and bad others....hopefully it'll all get corrected real some only saving grace for me right now is wi-fi
Underlying idea is, its not the phone... its the network.
Past experience doesn't guarantee present performance
MIne is working well.
Wifi is performing very good for me, and the other day at my apt around 6pm i got 1.9megs down.. 3G..
Its a tower that has been upgraded but still have yet to stay connected to 4G longer then a minute..
No there is an issue...I had a moto photon that was very fast on 3g.....when i switched to the evo lte...i noted it seem to be a lot slower...figure it was the network
Well i went back on my photon while i unlock the evo....and again the photon just flys compared to the evo....there is an issue..a big one
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Well I switched from the E3D to the ELTE and I gained on 3g speeds.. I can tell a diff in speed . I got a taste of LTE yesterday for about 5 hrs and it is very noticeable fast over WiMAX .
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Wifi is awesome. I am getting wifi signals while driving along the interstate in Houston, however 3g and LTE are terrible and this is supposed to be one of the first LTE areas for Sprint.
The phone barely connects to the internet while my wife's EVO 3d can get a signal easy. For example I tried to load the maps app while sitting at a traffic light and kept getting no connection. While hers loaded up almost instantly. Tried the same with the internet browser.
Both phones are rooted. Anyone else having data connection issues when not using WIFI?
no problems in the SW suburbs of Chicago...you need to call Sprint and tell them exactly where the problem areas are..
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Wifi is awesome. I am getting wifi signals while driving along the interstate in Houston, however 3g and LTE are terrible and this is supposed to be one of the first LTE areas for Sprint.
The phone barely connects to the internet while my wife's EVO 3d can get a signal easy. For example I tried to load the maps app while sitting at a traffic light and kept getting no connection. While hers loaded up almost instantly. Tried the same with the internet browser.
Both phones are rooted. Anyone else having data connection issues when not using WIFI?
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I'm in Houston too and experiencing the same issues as you. According to my friend who is an engineer for Sprint here in Houston, there's already Spark work being done extensively here. Take that with a grain of salt but that's what I was told tonight.
Edit: Here I am 3 days later and my service has greatly improved. I had my phone for less than 24 hours when posting before but things have settled up nicely and I'm now pulling faster speeds than I ever did on T-Mobile.
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