I was doing some tests tonight from my hotel room. My Photon is averaging ~4mb down / 1mb up using speedtest on the phone..
tethering using sprint's mobile hotspot (yes, I'm paying for it) my laptop only sees 300kbits down and around 500kbits up..
What the???
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So I recently started messing around with speedtest.net. When I'm in a strong 3G area I see around 5 mbps down. At home on wifi I see around 1.5 mbps down. At face value, it looks like my 3G is faster than my wifi. Can this be true? My ISP only offers up to 1.5 mbps in my area. Should I just get wifi tether and use my phone for internet at home, or do the stats from speedtest only tell a part of the story?
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TJBunch1228 said:
So I recently started messing around with speedtest.net. When I'm in a strong 3G area I see around 5 mbps down. At home on wifi I see around 1.5 mbps down. At face value, it looks like my 3G is faster than my wifi. Can this be true? My ISP only offers up to 1.5 mbps in my area. Should I just get wifi tether and use my phone for internet at home, or do the stats from speedtest only tell a part of the story?
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it is possible that your phone is faster. There are a few things to keep in mind though. How much data do you use? If it is more than 5 GB keep your DSL. The other is are you playing video games? If you are playing games that require a low ping then also stay with your DSL. If you are using low amounts of bandwidth and not playing games you might want to switch.
TJBunch1228 said:
So I recently started messing around with speedtest.net. When I'm in a strong 3G area I see around 5 mbps down. At home on wifi I see around 1.5 mbps down. At face value, it looks like my 3G is faster than my wifi. Can this be true? My ISP only offers up to 1.5 mbps in my area. Should I just get wifi tether and use my phone for internet at home, or do the stats from speedtest only tell a part of the story?
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It's certainly possible, but it doesn't neccessarily mean that your speeds will stay consistent or even be as fast when tethered. Also, your wifi speed will vary based on your distance from your router.
Also keep in mind that your 3G contract has a 5GB cap. From what I understand this simply means your speeds will be throttled down once you reach the cap (and there are some workarounds that may or may not work well out there).
3G is one of the most inconsistent broadband connection out there, so personally I'd never rely on it as my primary internet source, but it's up to you
Awesome answers, I appreciate the info!
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i would love to have a wifi instead of having a data connection. unfortunately my mom doesn't let mo do it.
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Anyone test their speeds using Internet Connection Sharing? I did a bandwidth test from the phone and got 8.9 Mbits download and 3.6 Mbits upload. Then I then did a test from my laptop and I got 3.5 Mbits upload but my download would not go above 0.6 Mbits. Anyone else noticed this problem?
This is not slow, hsdpa gives 7.2 Mbps speeds only so expected
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vikram.m.mohan said:
This is not slow, hsdpa gives 7.2 Mbps speeds only so expected
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This phone is capable of 14.4 Mbps, not just 7.2 Mbps. My Carrier is capable of 21 Mbps. This was not the issue. The issue was getting over 8 Mbit/s download speeds on the Titan, but when using Internet Connection Sharing the speed would not be greater them 0.6 Mbit/s. This was tested right after the initial test. The upload speed was very similar though.
As is my understanding, you will never achieve the same speeds when using ICS.
When your phone is communicating with the internet, it is dealing with one lot of data being sent and one lot of data being returned.
But when connecting your computer via your phone, your phone has to take that data from your computer, then pass it on. So it is dealing with one lot of data to/from your computer, and another lot of data (the same data!) to/from the internet - So you are doubling the amount of work the phone does. Your phone only has the one radio chip for this data, so it has to alternate between all the incoming and outgoing data.
You get the same slow-down on home wifi networks if you use a wifi repeater.
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As is my understanding, you will never achieve the same speeds when using ICS.
When your phone is communicating with the internet, it is dealing with one lot of data being sent and one lot of data being returned.
But when connecting your computer via your phone, your phone has to take that data from your computer, then pass it on. So it is dealing with one lot of data to/from your computer, and another lot of data (the same data!) to/from the internet - So you are doubling the amount of work the phone does. Your phone only has the one radio chip for this data, so it has to alternate between all the incoming and outgoing data.
You get the same slow-down on home wifi networks if you use a wifi repeater.
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I understand that it will be less, but to go from over 8 Mbits on the phone to 0.6 Mbits on my laptop is more then what one should expect as a penalty for connecting thru the phone.
Even with your example of using a wifi repeater the bandwidth is only halved, and that is because the link is using the same frequency band over both hops. In the case of the phone, Internet Connection Sharing is acting like a home router with the cell frequency side the equivalent of the wan port and the software is providing NAT to clients connected on the 2.4ghz wifi connection side so there is no penalty for using the same frequency band.
As I also stated the upload from the phone and the upload from my laptop are the same, around 3.5 Mbits. What I was asking is if other people have had this same discrepancy when using Internet Connection Sharing. Even if the results from just the phone were ignored, the fact that I only got 0.6 Mbits download vs 3.5 Mbits upload thru the phone tells me something is not working properly.
If anyone is seeing this discrepancy between upload and dowload speeds with Internet Connection Sharing let me know.
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I understand that it will be less, but to go from over 8 Mbits on the phone to 0.6 Mbits on my laptop is more then what one should expect as a penalty for connecting thru the phone.
Even with your example of using a wifi repeater the bandwidth is only halved, and that is because the link is using the same frequency band over both hops. In the case of the phone, Internet Connection Sharing is acting like a home router with the cell frequency side the equivalent of the wan port and the software is providing NAT to clients connected on the 2.4ghz wifi connection side so there is no penalty for using the same frequency band.
As I also stated the upload from the phone and the upload from my laptop are the same, around 3.5 Mbits. What I was asking is if other people have had this same discrepancy when using Internet Connection Sharing. Even if the results from just the phone were ignored, the fact that I only got 0.6 Mbits download vs 3.5 Mbits upload thru the phone tells me something is not working properly.
If anyone is seeing this discrepancy between upload and dowload speeds with Internet Connection Sharing let me know.
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Have tried same SIM different phone? Different SIM same phone?
It could well be your provider!
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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How is the photons 4g speeds while tethering with custom ROM?
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>2Mbps on 3G.
I was upstate NY last week (no 4g!) and was getting over 2Mbps! Very good speeds. I got the same 3G speeds in NYC.
In Los Angeles (where I live) I get 200Kbps. Terrible IMO.
I never bother with 4G because of the battery drain and sparse coverage. Plus I am usually in buildings where there is WiFi.
~3.5Mbps in Harrisburg PA
Speeds here are decent and excellent when compared to the hotel wireless network which crawls!
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Guys, if anyone is still having issues with WIFI tether app, the following setup works for me: using 3.1 beta 11, device profile "Google Nexus," Setup method "Netd (master)." Wait at least 10 seconds after start tethering before connecting any of your devices.
Can anyone offer anything on why the WiFi hotspot crawls at 0.6 Mbps DL, in the same location with LTE DL speeds ranging around 100 Mbps, on T-Mobile?
Stock rooted V30S on 8.0.
Is this a phone HW or SW constraint, or does T-Mobile somehow detect that the phone is in hotspot mode and throttle it?
TIA...
Edit: Apparently T-Mobile One plan only provides 3G speeds on WiFi hotspot.
Now I need to look for a root hotspot stealth app, so T-Mobile does not see it is running a hotspot. Anybody have any suggestions?
TIA again...
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If you add TMobile One plus, you can have 20gb of 4g lte hotspot.
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If you add TMobile One plus, you can have 20gb of 4g lte hotspot.
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The T-Mobile representation is not clear, it says 4G LTE (*3G data). Direct quote from T-Mobile website:
" 20GB of 4G LTE mobile hotspot data.
With unlimited 3G data. "
Maybe that means 4G up to 20GB then 3G after that, or maybe it is misleading advertising and it is 4G cell network and max 3G speeds on the hotspot, period. (Wireless carriers do have a well-deserved bad reputation for misleading consumers, and I read some users complaining on forums.)
I read about an ADB shell command involving DUN, to bypass TMobile hotspot throttling, but I'm concerned something like this might break something in the phone network config that might require a complete reset or reflash to fix, and I don't want to start down that path (the phone is rooted, 100% reliable with zero problems, and I don't want to screw that up - as fun as it is spending hours on such. with chance of bricking adding additional excitement).
Oh well, 0.6 Mbps is adequate (albeit slow) for basic things in a pinch, just not video. (Cable modem internet service circa late 1990's was "up to" 1 Mbps, this is about the same.)
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I have TMobile hotspot. It's 20gb of 4glte hotspot data, then unlimited 3g. Simple, easy, honest.