I was using the mobile speedtest app to see how my evo 3d performed on my wifi.
I'm seeing that my downlink speeds are consistently around a third of my uplink.
What gives?
Edit: is the test flawed or does the os limit download speeds?
Edit2: well I feel like a real dolt now, egg on my face. I noticed the server the mobile app was connecting to didn't match the one I used on the comouter.
Switched servers and now I'm seeing performance very comparable to what the laptop achieves. I'm duly impressed!
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Are you on DSL?
My service is 15mbits down, 2mbits up. This is set to increase to 30mbits down and 8mbits up after this month.
I recently purchased and set up a Cisco n4200, the best consumer router offered, to handle the increase in connected devices in the home, an upgrade from the ****tier linksys before it (yes I know linksys is a Cisco brand but higher tier devices bear the Cisco name over linksys).
What I'm seeing consistently on my phone is about 256kb/s down and around 760-800kb/s up.
Edit: never mind, edited first post.
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Do you mean an E4200? If so it is far from the best available.
my line is 50mb down and 5mb up running through a linksys wrt610n router and i see 25-30mb down and 5mb up on my evo, 3d, view, and epic. all of them have at stock settings so im sure i could get a bit more if i were to change the settings for better performance.
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Do you mean an E4200? If so it is far from the best available.
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Yes, you're correct. E4200. I'm really dropping the ball today.
From what I researched and all the options I looked at, it is the best consumer grade router available from Cisco, belkin et al.
I need the wireless in the home utilized efficiently and intelligently among the phones, tvs, consoles, computers, rokus and voip service. This does the job pretty well.
I realize there are more advanced options available in the "prosumer" and business class tiers but I don't think I need those. I'm not running a bittorrent server in the home after all.
Taking in light my usage case, would you recommend a different router for me?
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I went and tried the 3d again for 30 min yesterday. What is interesting is that on WIFI, the 4G loaded web pages faster than the 3d EVERY TIME. I loaded probably 10 pages at the same exact time on both. The 4G always won. Anyone else try this? Was it a fluke?
Huh?
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Oh wow I get it now... Your talking about the two different phones... Lol
I microwaved my EVO 4G so at this time I can't test. But I'm sure you have to manny variables for that test
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There is a setting under WiFi to use best WiFi and its a lot faster
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Think that really depends on what wifi you were using. If you were at BB and everything was connected, its not going to be fast.
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I can agree, seems like 4g loads web pages faster. At home on wifi im getting 21 down and 4 up pretty fast .. on 4g im getting around 7 to 9 and less then 1 up however 4g does load web pages faster on my 3d . Im not sure why but i do notice faster loading on 4g .
Both phones were on the same fast WIFI network.
This happened in two different locations with two different 4G and 3D phones by the way...
Someone else should try this and get back to us.
Also, what is this "best" wifi setting you speak of?
Go to WiFi set up. Hit menu then advanced. Then best WiFi ( says it will consume more power)
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Menu...wireless....wifi...menu button...advanced...enable best wifi.
See if that helps
Edit. You beat me by a hair. Sorry
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Though it seems counterintuitive I think the fact that the 3D has more screen real estate to fill may come into play here.
I have both phones and have also noticed the same thing. Perhaps they have a different definition of a 'fully loaded' web page to compensate for that, or maybe it's the fact that they don't compensate for that.
I can't say that it has impeded my enjoyment of the 3D...that crappy aspect ratio and weaker 3G radio have done that all by themselves, and that's to say nothing of the status of the bootloader and sense.
daneurysm, since you have both phones there, have you tried with both on the "best" setting?
p.s. I also like the aspect ratio of the OG's screen better. Longer and more narrow does me little good...I do not watch movies on my phone.
Which is better for performance.......wifi on the phone or a downloaded app in the market for wifi like Barnacel???
Nexus S is faster over WIFI
All I know is I have the Nexus right here - there is no "best" setting on it and it is faster than either of the Evos on WIFI.
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All I know is I have the Nexus right here - there is no "best" setting on it and it is faster than either of the Evos on WIFI.
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My EVO 3D, while on my home WiFi network at least, is generally running as fast as my computer. My computer is a high end one as well.
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My EVO 3D, while on my home WiFi network at least, is generally running as fast as my computer. My computer is a high end one as well.
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My E3D is faster than my 4G on my WiFi at home. My E3D loads web pages (and does everything) blazingly fast.
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I ran some tests like this with my bros NS4G, an EVO4G, and my 3D. I think the OG EVO finished a tad bit faster about half the time .
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This is reported on most sites (4G faster). I did about 30 3D vs 4G site loading tests and 4G was faster like 25 times.
I'm counting on radio updates to help with this (like it did the 4G...many times)
Yea if on WiFi you need to take the e3d off power save in WiFi settings..I believe that will be the difference here...also like Rocky said it will improve once they work out the bugs
I just watched several videos on youtube comparing the two, and the 3D was faster every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiRwM_3WL00&feature=youtube_gdata_player
30test site download I did (on 3G) was identical to this.
Hey firmbiz...you mean 'best WIFi' setting right?...there's no power save setting in WiFi setting that I see...
By running the speed tests from the speedtest. net app the new update actually made my wifi speed slower . My connection is 40 / 5m . When I was on firmware. 11.1 I was getting about 5m down. Now I am getting about 1.5m down with the new .13 update. I thought the change log says that it increases wifi performance. Anyone else see slower speeds?
Also to put this in perspective I have my iPhone 4 running the same speedtest app and its getting almost 18m down in the same location as my prime.
Did you try a reboot then do tests again? Yeah the changelog does says it improves wifi on most devices. Still more updates coming though.
Yeah, it increases Wi-Fi performance but for some only and makes it worse for others.
I took mine back to the store earlier today and said I wanted a refund since they got none in stock. The salesman called someone to come over and he asked me to wait for this .13 update, claiming it will fix my Wi-Fi problem. Since I only wanted to exchange, I kept mine. Will report once I am able to update.
Yeah after playing with .13 for over 24 hours my wifi is worse for sure.
My net is 15k down and 2k up.
I live in a condo and can "see" 8-14 other wifi networks. (gads!)
I set mine up to be in the least busy channel
Did this test at 5am to have the least noise
next to router: (2 feet)
14,220 up 2142 down That is the same speed I get wired
Next room over, though 3 walls, bathroom and near a tv, access point, xbox, ps3, wii etc aka a ton of other wifi devices
near side of the room (10 -15 feet away)
13850 down 2113 up
Far side of room (8 feet more) so 15-20 feet away
3896 down 2132 up
4 feet outside my door (about 4-5 feet farther)
2370 down 2027 up
So the download speed is dropping like a rock, the upload speed is staying the same, but it's only 2k so hard to tell if it's being effected.
Thankfully I don't need to use it on my front doorstep a lot.
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Only other device i have to test same spots with is an iPod touch.
Next to router:
8418 down 2009up
near side next room:
8188 down 1995 up
Far side next room:
8150 down 2010 up
Outside:
5324 down 1986 up
So my old iPod touch has better wifi range.
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By running the speed tests from the speedtest. net app the new update actually made my wifi speed slower . My connection is 40 / 5m . When I was on firmware. 11.1 I was getting about 5m down. Now I am getting about 1.5m down with the new .13 update. I thought the change log says that it increases wifi performance. Anyone else see slower speeds?
Also to put this in perspective I have my iPhone 4 running the same speedtest app and its getting almost 18m down in the same location as my prime.
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I agree. My speeds were snappy quick (without bt) before this update. Now response times are slower. Asus is going in the wrong direction.
My speed is also down (per speedtest)but my range has been extended(per wifi anlr)and signal stronger. I dont get it I have the lowest Speedtest results since I got it in Dec.
Edit: Started uninstalling apps from the most recent DLs while doing Speedtests ..... and BINGO..... Got rid of Chrome and got all my speed back plus some... I dont get it but whatever Prime now working better than ever.
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Im running much better tested mine today after the update and I am getting 43.04 mb/s and 16.51 mb/s with a ping of 67 ms, pretty good for sure.
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Im running much better tested mine today after the update and I am getting 43.04 mb/s and 16.51 mb/s with a ping of 67 ms, pretty good for sure.
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Who's your provider?
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i was getting bad speeds after the update too, and random reboots, before the update everything was great. I did a factory reset and my wifi is great again and no more random reboots!
So how far is everyone away from there router? I only say that because the speeds are fine next to the router but from 10 to 15 feet they are horrible. I kinda wish I could downgrade to .11.1....
I give up. I've tried everything to get my TFP to get better wifi speeds from a distance and I haven't found anything that helps. I completely reconfigured my router, factory reset my device, uninstalled every single app I've downloaded and still whenever I get over 20 feet away from my router, my wifi speed drops below 2 mbps.
I'm starting to think the people without this issue have some crazy long range routers or something. I really love this tablet but I'm losing hope fast. ICS + tegra 3 is amazing, so I hope if I do return this there will be another similarly specced Tablet out soon. I can't go to ios.
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Im running much better tested mine today after the update and I am getting 43.04 mb/s and 16.51 mb/s with a ping of 67 ms, pretty good for sure.
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Is that a stock prime? no mods? Wow, that is the best speeds I have seen. How close are you to the router?
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I give up. I've tried everything to get my TFP to get better wifi speeds from a distance and I haven't found anything that helps. I completely reconfigured my router, factory reset my device, uninstalled every single app I've downloaded and still whenever I get over 20 feet away from my router, my wifi speed drops below 2 mbps.
I'm starting to think the people without this issue have some crazy long range routers or something. I really love this tablet but I'm losing hope fast. ICS + tegra 3 is amazing, so I hope if I do return this there will be another similarly specced Tablet out soon. I can't go to ios.
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I have a Bcokos model. What is your serial batch? I also I went outside and was only able to pick up 2 satellites.
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I give up. I've tried everything to get my TFP to get better wifi speeds from a distance and I haven't found anything that helps. I completely reconfigured my router, factory reset my device, uninstalled every single app I've downloaded and still whenever I get over 20 feet away from my router, my wifi speed drops below 2 mbps.
I'm starting to think the people without this issue have some crazy long range routers or something. I really love this tablet but I'm losing hope fast. ICS + tegra 3 is amazing, so I hope if I do return this there will be another similarly specced Tablet out soon. I can't go to ios.
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find yourself a good ol fashioned Linksys bg router and your prime will work great with it
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find yourself a good ol fashioned Linksys bg router and your prime will work great with it
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How's that? Why not N routers set to B/G? No, there's more to it than routers; Prime's the odd man out on being able to reach my street. Channels 1-11, Mixed, B, G, N, etc... It's always out of signal before the rest.
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How's that? Why not N routers set to B/G? No, there's more to it than routers; Prime's the odd man out on being able to reach my street. Channels 1-11, Mixed, B, G, N, etc... It's always out of signal before the rest.
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maybe your prime does have a serious issue then however I know for a fact my parents newer bgn netgear router wouldn't range past 10ft with the prime so I hooked up their old router and it works throughout the house
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maybe your prime does have a serious issue then however I know for a fact my parents newer bgn netgear router wouldn't range past 10ft with the prime so I hooked up their old router and it works throughout the house
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Throughout house. What kind of distance from router. I get a good thirty or so feet with the Prime while maintaining decent quality connection in regards to through-put; my phone get's about fourty-five, laptops about the same.
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How's that? Why not N routers set to B/G? No, there's more to it than routers; Prime's the odd man out on being able to reach my street. Channels 1-11, Mixed, B, G, N, etc... It's always out of signal before the rest.
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Try setting your router to G band only and a low frequency like channel1,2 or 3 and check range with wifi analyser.... if its not better its not gonna get better
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Throughout house. What kind of distance from router. I get a good thirty or so feet with the Prime while maintaining decent quality connection in regards to through-put; my phone get's about fourty-five, laptops about the same.
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No Primes get same range as other Wi-Fi devices I've tested 3 Primes now on several different routers dead spot comes about 10 ft before other Wi-Fi devices.... it's the aluminum backplate that's the culprit.
hi everyone
just tried to download some torrents and i am experiencing very slow download speeds (currently at 49kb/s). wi fi signal is currently full as im next to the router so i cant think what it can be. i have tried atorrent and ttorrent both giving the same download speeds
has anyone got and ideas where im going wrong.
thanks
WAREZ. Loljk but come on, its android, do you expect it to be fast. Max I get is 250 kB/s which fluctuates down to zero sometimes.
250 would be a dream, im struggling to get over 50. is it because its on android then. i would have thought it would still be good as i have good internet speed
Probably due to low amount of seeders, try to download items with 150-200+ seeders for good DL speeds.
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WAREZ. Loljk but come on, its android, do you expect it to be fast. Max I get is 250 kB/s which fluctuates down to zero sometimes.
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The first time I downloaded a torrent on mine (shortly after .11 came out) I got over 1MB/s sustained. I don't know what to suggest, nor what I did differently than you, but I certainly had higher speeds. I do believe that some of the free versions of the torrent clients for Android limit your D/L speeds though. I have tTorrent Pro fyi.
I've gotten up to 1mb/s with atorrent when there are many seeders. This was from my basement where I only have a few bars.
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The fastest way to download torrent as of right now, is to use chrooted ubuntu and transmission-daemon
The prime gets unusale during the download, but u get top speed.
I use aDownloader https://market.android.com/details?id=com.DroiDownloader and I easilly get above 2 megabytes per second. When you reach such a download speed the tablet is not usable for anything else, therefore it is good to limit it at 1 megabytes per second.
Lower the concurrent connections if possible.
Android's network stack generally suck with many open connections.
You see the same when downloading from the market. More than often all downloads happen sequentially instead of parallel that one would expect.
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i am experiencing very slow download speeds (currently at 49kb/s)
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Have you tried the same file from a computer? Chances are, it's the torrent and not the device.
My device downloads as fast as my connection allows. It also streams HD media to and from my network without any issues. It actually performs a lot better than a dedicated media pc client that I have set up in my kitchen, so I tend to hook this into the TV instead nowadays.
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WAREZ. Loljk but come on, its android, do you expect it to be fast. Max I get is 250 kB/s which fluctuates down to zero sometimes.
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Oh, cut the crap. There are many valid/legal uses for torrents. No need to allow a search engine to associate that with the Prime.
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Oh, cut the crap. There are many valid/legal uses for torrents. No need to allow a search engine to associate that with the Prime.
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I was just joking jeez. But I'd say you do download illegal stuff from your extremely defensive response. Don't worry, nobody admits to it but secretly we all know everyone does it.
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I had the same issue with kitkat, previous device on 3.2 OS run fine. PC too.
I disabled uTP in flud (network), and I limited connections to 30 (bandwidth).
(finally less sth like 21)
Probably it will resolve problem.
If not, forward ports on router, and set it in BT client
i.e. 6881~6889 or 18006 UTP&UDP.
Eventually also disable upnp, or also change storage to SD, or internal memory.
I have also enabled encryption out and in, and both level. I'm not sure, maybe if it will helps here I write.
At the end you can check ttorent with utp disabled/or prevented from limit ~sth like this, that's the other solution.
In Android options you can test turning off optimizing Wifi option.
I also met with serious troubles with achieving proper speeds during attempts of streaming torrents. Unfortunately, now there is no any torrent stream app which has extended options of p2p protocol, for applying given instructions above, excluding mTorrent, (port setting and encryption) which is still not enough, and flud still rules among all android p2p clients, which allows to get some more decent speeds, maybe not as at PC, but decent.
And flud still surprises, having option of sequential downloading, which means transforming way of downloading, just for watching in fly, during downloading, to not spread pieces around during downloading. We can see the 'pieces' in a diagram, and just start watching after some time when enough data is collected. Mostly when ETA corresponds with duration of movie. And then, just find your file, and open by your usual player. That's it. I recommend MX Player. Finds different subs in many languages, allows switching.
So, with my instructions for flud given above, or just with flud as solution for problem with slow torrent downloads on Android, especially streams, now you can finally achieve decent speeds to stream i . e. 2GB FHD file with 4 mb network bandwidth on devices with troubles with low speed of downloading torrents on Android.
So, enjoy.
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The fastest way to download torrent as of right now, is to use chrooted ubuntu and transmission-daemon
The prime gets unusale during the download, but u get top speed.
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What is chrooted ubuntu
Is it in android??
I've done a few tests with the speedtest app and compared it to my droid x and my macbook. Overall it is slightly better than my droid in dl speeds, but isn't even close to my macbook. Is this normal or should my prime get closer speeds to the laptop? Thanks for any help.
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I've done a few tests with the speedtest app and compared it to my droid x and my macbook. Overall it is slightly better than my droid in dl speeds, but isn't even close to my macbook. Is this normal or should my prime get closer speeds to the laptop? Thanks for any help.
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Without exception, all serial numbers have the exact same problems. You don't have to worry about having the problem, because, if you have a TFP, you have the problem.
JohnnyTA said:
I've done a few tests with the speedtest app and compared it to my droid x and my macbook. Overall it is slightly better than my droid in dl speeds, but isn't even close to my macbook. Is this normal or should my prime get closer speeds to the laptop? Thanks for any help.
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Usually laptops/desktops have much better wireless hardware and bigger antennas, so comparing it to a laptop doesn't make much sense.
To see whether you have a broken one just test your Wifi, if you are happy with it, you got a good one, if you don't like it it's broken
I'm slightly confused on this wifi issue that plagues this device, is it that the wifi can't be picked up from distances? (Short range) or is it that wifi is slow?
My wifi picks up fine, but I get less than 5 mbps average, when on my mytouch slide 4g I get over 12 easily..
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Without exception, all serial numbers have the exact same problems. You don't have to worry about having the problem, because, if you have a TFP, you have the problem.
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This isn't true at all. It is pretty well documented that some Prime's are more affected by WiFi problems than others.
In general if your WiFi is as fast as your Android phone (give its a fairly recent phone) and you can step away from your WiFi source by a fair distance then your WiFi is fine.
In general PCs will process data from a WiFi signal faster than a mobile device, so it isn't unusual for WiFi to appear faster on your laptop than on your tablet.
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This isn't true at all. It is pretty well documented that some Prime's are more affected by WiFi problems than others.
In general if your WiFi is as fast as your Android phone (give its a fairly recent phone) and you can step away from your WiFi source by a fair distance then your WiFi is fine.
In general PCs will process data from a WiFi signal faster than a mobile device, so it isn't unusual for WiFi to appear faster on your laptop than on your tablet.
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Agreed. My Prime performs just as well as my Samsung phone and I still haven't had a single place out and about in was unable to connect when I should be able to. My Prime can max out my throughput from my router from across the house through walls/doors just as much macbook pro can though the signal is weaker, strength is same on phone and Prime. This is with a unit I got in December too.
Good Morning All -
After being big into IPhones \ jailbreaking for a few years, curiosity got the best of me and I finally caved in and got an HTC One (AT&T) last week. I immediately rooted it and have had a great time learning all you can do. Recently, I also installed Revolution HD 21 and really like it. For tablet, though, I still heavily rely on my iPad 3 WiFi.
I actually do pay for legit tethering and have been able to tether the One and iPad easily over Bluetooth and\or Adhoc wifi. I used MyWi somewhat successfully when I had iPhone and iPad and am looking for similar functionality even though there's now an OS difference between the two.
My question is does anyone know of a method, utility, app which would either enable the phone's ap\tethering when the phone leaves wifi range - then disable it when back in range? My goal is to have my iPad always online and if the phone leaves wifi range, the iPad will too and will start using the phones Internet.
Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks!
Maybe look into tasker?
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Wow - Thanks for the fast reply!
Just looked it up in store. Will try it out. Wish there was solution using same app cross platform. If anyone else has other suggestions or alternatives, I'm open for them, too.
Thanks!
Yeah no problem and I hope you find what your looking for.
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