I was wondering if there were any tricks on speeding up WIFI browsing? There are a few tricks for speeding up 3g browsing, but the WIFI and 3G are two different beasts.
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I know on some android phones you can go under the ##data# menu and alter settings to give you faster 3g speeds. Sure wifi and 3g are different beasts but maybe there is a way to speed up wifi. Btw I'm looking to speed up a galaxy 10.1 tab.
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I use wireless tether on my sense based custom rom and lately I've been doing a lot of tethering, when I'm in a fixed place like my hotel last week, I got great speeds 6-10 mbps on LTE, but if I'm moving, say pn a bus like I am now or the the backset of a taxi, speeds drop drastically whether on a 4G or 3G connection I get approximately 200 - 400 kbps, I understand that speeds while moving with a mobile broadband connection will be slower, but I'm interested in what speeds others get and their rom / tether app used. 400kbps just seems excessively slow for 4G even though I'm moving.
It may be the tethering app just did a test on 4G and got 9.5 down and 3 up, interested in others experiences
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already solved, took my laptop out of power saving mode and I got 16 down and 4 up, it must be a setting in power managerment / wifi settings
Never use tethering but when I take the bus to school I don't lose any 4gspeed or even go to 3g it stays in 4G, but I think my city has good 4G coverage
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I just got around to downloading the speed test app to see how fast me x2 is and after the first test here is what I got:
Ping:19ms
Down:4989kbps
Up:703kbps
Now I dont know much but something tells me that up speed is a little low.
Im on cm7 with the Mash up script and wifi on.
Will the numbers be different if Im on 3G? Are these numbers even remotely good?
Many thanks to all!!
Apps aren't always accurate. I'm not sure what you meant will it be different if I'm on 3G? Wifi and 3G will always differ, wifi is much faster depending on your provider, where 3g can lag at times
On 3g I usually hit 3d and 1 up
Where wifi I'm like 25 down 8 up out there about.
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Your ping time and up/down speeds can vary even when connected to the same tower or wifi network depending the congestion at any given time on the bandwidth provider's network, among other factors.
Your seemingly low upload speed could be attributed to other devices on the wifi network using the upload bandwidth allotted by the isp at the time you performed the speed test. It may also be the case the connection supplying the wifi network is 6Mbps down/1Mbps up. Your upload and download speeds while on wifi can only be as good as the connection from the isp regardless of the settings on your device or how many other devices are on the network.
For what it's worth, I have a Verizon 3G Network Extender plugged into my wireless router, meaning that both my WiFi and the Network Extender can only supply a connection that at best is only as fast as my cable modem's connection to Comcast. Eliminating all conflicting variables (e.g. no other devices on the network when running tests), my Droid X2's 3G upload and download speeds are consistently slower than when I'm on wifi.
19ms is a pretty good ping time, btw.
Lots of useful info. Thanks guys!
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I have also been curious and suspicious of my 3g data speeds. When I was stock and rooted with 2.3.4 I would get on average 20-30 kilobytes/sec in my house with a poorer signnal of -87dbm this is using speed test and checking the down up speeds with the mobile network app that puts the speeds up on the notification bar. I used that to monitor downloads and web browsing speeds which agreed well with speed test. In a good coverage area -67dbm I achieved pretty consistently 130-230 kilobytes/sec. I am now running eclipse 2.0.4 with CMDA build.prop edit to increase 3g speeds. I ve only noticed a doubling of speed when in -87dbma area nut otherwise I cannot achieve anyhigher than 300 kilobytes/sec. I wonder could my radio be weak or bad? I thought 3g speeds would but up to ~500 or greater in really good coverage areas.
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I have also been curious and suspicious of my 3g data speeds. When I was stock and rooted with 2.3.4 I would get on average 20-30 kilobytes/sec in my house with a poorer signnal of -87dbm this is using speed test and checking the down up speeds with the mobile network app that puts the speeds up on the notification bar. I used that to monitor downloads and web browsing speeds which agreed well with speed test. In a good coverage area -67dbm I achieved pretty consistently 130-230 kilobytes/sec. I am now running eclipse 2.0.4 with CMDA build.prop edit to increase 3g speeds. I ve only noticed a doubling of speed when in -87dbma area nut otherwise I cannot achieve anyhigher than 300 kilobytes/sec. I wonder could my radio be weak or bad? I thought 3g speeds would but up to ~500 or greater in really good coverage areas.
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I never considered radio quality when I looked at my speeds. Exactly how one would go about checking ones radio quality is far beyond me. Its definitely something worth exploring (in my opinion)
Right I would also need to test other 3g speeds on a different phone on the same networko in the same area to rule out network end probs. Plus I got my DROID x2 used so that might be it there. Also if the radio heats up from persistent use that might reduce efficiency and lower speeds.
Those are fairly decent speeds. For a mobile device, that's about what I would expect. Your ping, 19ms, means that it takes .019 second to reach from your device to the Verizon servers, then to the servers of the sites you are accessing, and then finally back to your phone. Anything less than 80ms is considered good, so you have an excellent ping.
And to clarify, your upload speed will never be as high as your download speed. It's a throttling mechanism used by all (and I do mean all) internet providers of any kind to prevent things like hogging their bandwidth with torrents and the like. It's essentially an industry standard.
Issue started today. I got my phone a couple days ago and speeds were perfectly fine. When I turn off wifi and use my 4g lte, speeds are blazing fast. But to save on data bandwidth, I like to stay on wifi. When I'm downloading stuff from the playstore, my speeds are insanely slow. Browsing, youtube, streaming, everything else works at normal speeds on wifi. Speed tests are normal also.
Is this at work, or at home?
My wifi at home is actually faster than 4G.
If it's at work, it could be that your IT Department is doing traffic/packet shaping to the Google Play store. We don't even allow access to it on our internal network.
Might be the general WiFi disconnect/reconnect problem that a number of Galaxy S III owners are reporting on the boards, such as me.
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ill have to wait to get off work to test the home wifi. but the problem is at work. no issues with throttling, cus i control the router settings at this place
worked fine yesterday, and today i noticed speeds are crippled. device connectivity isnt an issue.
Situation:
At my office LAN, we have a little network of under 10 PCs running off cable & with dedicated IP.
Our office phones are also VOIP system so at any sign of issues with internet connection, office phones get serious lag.
Recently I noticed our network internet would slow down to a point where simple web browsing was difficult.
ISP's down speed is 7.6MB , which is basic business line package but more than enough for office use.
I've been doing some troubleshooting and testing, and I've found the culprit where it's to a point of absolute certainty.
When I turn off Wifi on my note 3, internet connection, and VOIP phones are running perfectly.
When I turn wifi back on note 3, internet gets slower, and dial tone on phones have 3-4 second lag due to internet speed.
I know for sure that my note 3 is causing this because I tested wifi on/off many times.
What's weird is, other employees also running other variations of smartphones are all connected on wifi during work hours. Only mine seems to be the variable where turning on/off makes a night and day difference.
Question:
How can I troubleshoot to see what it is exactly that my Note 3 is doing that's causing this trouble by itself?
Any suggestions on worthwhile apps or methods to isolate why note is hogging so many bandwidth?
Thanks for any assistance!!
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Situation:
At my office LAN, we have a little network of under 10 PCs running off cable & with dedicated IP.
Our office phones are also VOIP system so at any sign of issues with internet connection, office phones get serious lag.
Recently I noticed our network internet would slow down to a point where simple web browsing was difficult.
ISP's down speed is 7.6MB , which is basic business line package but more than enough for office use.
I've been doing some troubleshooting and testing, and I've found the culprit where it's to a point of absolute certainty.
When I turn off Wifi on my note 3, internet connection, and VOIP phones are running perfectly.
When I turn wifi back on note 3, internet gets slower, and dial tone on phones have 3-4 second lag due to internet speed.
I know for sure that my note 3 is causing this because I tested wifi on/off many times.
What's weird is, other employees also running other variations of smartphones are all connected on wifi during work hours. Only mine seems to be the variable where turning on/off makes a night and day difference.
Question:
How can I troubleshoot to see what it is exactly that my Note 3 is doing that's causing this trouble by itself?
Any suggestions on worthwhile apps or methods to isolate why note is hogging so many bandwidth?
Thanks for any assistance!!
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I know my Galaxy S2 and now my Note 3 both slow down my home and work network, why or how I do not know. Hopefully we can get to the bottom if it :good: