I notice every time I connect my SGS2 to my wifi, after awhile, it slows down my internet of other devices to the point where loading webpage take 5 seconds or more. So if I connect my phone to the wifi, in about 20ish minutes my computer's internet speed will start to lag. The webpage load slower, and my online games have 2-4s of delay.
I have a qwest router (Actiontec PK 5000)
Whatever the problem is I really doubt it's phone related. How old is the router?
One time at football camp, I put my shoulder pads in my arse.
Another vote for router issues.
Or if you have modem and separate router, possible the modem is bad. If you can rule out the router I would call your ISP for a new modem. I doubt the phone could clog enough bandwidth to explain your issue.
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I didn't see you show your router. I have the same exact router/modem. Did you get the firmware update? I think you have to do it manually. I used to have lots of issues where the router would throttle my connection, saying to check for viruses, too many connections. And I would have to unplug and reboot daily. (On the old firmware you can verify this under the modem utilization screen)
My current firmware version is: qap002-3.60.3.0.9.9-pk5000
After I updated the firmware I never have issues. If I choose to, I can browse on my phone, watch Netflix (directly on Vizio TV), my wife browse on the TouchPad, all on a 1.5Mbps connection without issue.
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Hello there, I'm on the same firmware as you, i changed my raido channel from "auto" to "8" (I think it could be any number) It seems to fix it, but I dont know yet, its only been a few hours.
Same problem !!
pham818 said:
I notice every time I connect my SGS2 to my wifi, after awhile, it slows down my internet of other devices to the point where loading webpage take 5 seconds or more. So if I connect my phone to the wifi, in about 20ish minutes my computer's internet speed will start to lag. The webpage load slower, and my online games have 2-4s of delay.
I have a qwest router (Actiontec PK 5000)
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I have SGS2 and new tp link wi fi router TL-WR740N.
When i measure the internet speed on speedtest i have 6MB/S download and 17 ms ping.
But when i connect wi fi my telephone SGS2 on the second test i have 5042 ping and 0.42 MB/s download.
When i measure it for the third time, on the moment when there is ongoing pin calc. when i disconnect my phone from wifi , that instant moment my ping and downloads speed is ok.
What is gong on ?
ANYONE PLS HELP !!
That sounds like your router man...
Does this happen when you connect any other device to your wifi?
pham818 said:
I notice every time I connect my SGS2 to my wifi, after awhile, it slows down my internet of other devices to the point where loading webpage take 5 seconds or more. So if I connect my phone to the wifi, in about 20ish minutes my computer's internet speed will start to lag. The webpage load slower, and my online games have 2-4s of delay.
I have a qwest router (Actiontec PK 5000)
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if i remember correctly, the more devices that you have connected to wifi at one time, the slower your connection is. All the devices are using data/bandwidth at the same time which means the individual task of each device has to wait for others as well. at least, thats what i've always gone by.
EDIT: i just have no idea why the change in speeds would be so drastic :/
This thread is from January. Put the shovels away. Also, it's not relative to this phone. It's relative to what kind of internet setup you have at your residence.
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Phalanx7621 said:
This thread is from January. Put the shovels away. Also, it's not relative to this phone. It's relative to what kind of internet setup you have at your residence.
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Thanks... I didn't even notice that...
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tocirahl said:
That sounds like your router man...
Does this happen when you connect any other device to your wifi?
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when i connect my lap top nothing happens. only on SGS2.
I have tried my other phone, the old nokia and work just fine.
pham818 said:
I notice every time I connect my SGS2 to my wifi, after awhile, it slows down my internet of other devices to the point where loading webpage take 5 seconds or more. So if I connect my phone to the wifi, in about 20ish minutes my computer's internet speed will start to lag. The webpage load slower, and my online games have 2-4s of delay.
I have a qwest router (Actiontec PK 5000)
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I have the exact problem! I just figured out it was my phone 2 days ago and have been lookig for the restuls. I have a Galaxy S2 and Qwest/century link and as sooon as my connect my phone to the wifi my online games lag bad, the ping goes from 60 to 300-500. Did you ever get it worked out or figure out a fix?
Tsiawd said:
I have the exact problem! I just figured out it was my phone 2 days ago and have been lookig for the restuls. I have a Galaxy S2 and Qwest/century link and as sooon as my connect my phone to the wifi my online games lag bad, the ping goes from 60 to 300-500. Did you ever get it worked out or figure out a fix?
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Not jet. I have updated the latest firmware and the same thing happens. I will try it on different routers the same testspeed and i will see it. My friend also have the same router like me and have same problem .
We will figure it eventually and i will write it down to you. If you solve it please share.
Thx !
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hey guys, i am having issues using dnla feature between my thunderbolt and my ps3. i have a theory why i might have no luck. i think my linksys is not strong enough to link the ps3 to my phone wirelessly
i am using a linksys wireless-g 2.4 GHz 54Mbps broadband router for everything in my house. (keep in mind that i am 15) wifi is used alot in my house(**not at once) (macbook pro2x, home computer, my thunderbolt, ps3+xbox, ipod touches, etc.) my linksys randomly looses connection and i have to reset it manually by unplugging and replugging it in. its been doing this since we bought it, not sure if its defective or not.
anyway, when i try to connect the 2, this is what happends: i hit search for media players on my ps3, than i open the app, lets say skifta(ive tried multiple apps, same effect happens) i hit search. both of my devices are runnning on the same linksys, but all of the sudden my phone drops its wifi connection.
can anyone confirm that it is my wifi connection?
thanks in advance!
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hey guys, i am having issues using dnla feature between my thunderbolt and my ps3. i have a theory why i might have no luck. i think my linksys is not strong enough to link the ps3 to my phone wirelessly
i am using a linksys wireless-g 2.4 GHz 54Mbps broadband router for everything in my house. (keep in mind that i am 15) wifi is used alot in my house(**not at once) (macbook pro2x, home computer, my thunderbolt, ps3+xbox, ipod touches, etc.) my linksys randomly looses connection and i have to reset it manually by unplugging and replugging it in. its been doing this since we bought it, not sure if its defective or not.
anyway, when i try to connect the 2, this is what happends: i hit search for media players on my ps3, than i open the app, lets say skifta(ive tried multiple apps, same effect happens) i hit search. both of my devices are runnning on the same linksys, but all of the sudden my phone drops its wifi connection.
can anyone confirm that it is my wifi connection?
thanks in advance!
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Try flashing a third party firmware on your router like ddwrt. At worse, you'll just have a bunch of extra features that make your router useful. At best, you'll have a better signal. It lets you boost the power the antennas get as well. If you boost it too high, it can shorten the life of the router, but it by default boosts it some already.
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Try flashing a third party firmware on your router like ddwrt. At worse, you'll just have a bunch of extra features that make your router useful. At best, you'll have a better signal. It lets you boost the power the antennas get as well. If you boost it too high, it can shorten the life of the router, but it by default boosts it some already.
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Alright thankyou, do you think this might also fix the problem where the linksys randomly looses connection?
Sent by a rooted Thunderbolt on Gingerbread and the newest Sense, tired of waiting.
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Alright thankyou, do you think this might also fix the problem where the linksys randomly looses connection?
Sent by a rooted Thunderbolt on Gingerbread and the newest Sense, tired of waiting.
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Anything is possible, but without doing way more than it's worth, I cant say for sure without you trying ddwrt. Basically if it were me, i would be reading the logs for the router and the phone and trying to pinpoint what was dropping it as well as other diagnostic information you can pull such as signal, etc. DDWRT is miles ahead of the crap cisco sticks on the routers by default. It has a built in vpn server for one just to give an example. My old wrt54g with ddwrt on it runs better than most stock firmware routers that are new.
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Anything is possible, but without doing way more than it's worth, I cant say for sure without you trying ddwrt. Basically if it were me, i would be reading the logs for the router and the phone and trying to pinpoint what was dropping it as well as other diagnostic information you can pull such as signal, etc. DDWRT is miles ahead of the crap cisco sticks on the routers by default. It has a built in vpn server for one just to give an example. My old wrt54g with ddwrt on it runs better than most stock firmware routers that are new.
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Alright thank you for all the useful info!
Sent by a rooted Thunderbolt.
May have found a fix for the random WiFi drops that some or more most people are having with the touchpad
1: Install Preware (search is your friend to install on how to )
2: Open Preware and in the search look for Govnah and install that
3: Open Govnah and go into Profile - Advance Settings - TCP Congestion
4: After going into all them tabs change the value from “Westwood” to “Reno”
Well from what I see I haven't had a drop in about 3 hours from jumping back and forth from one website to video sites and streaming movies and facebook. Well from what I have seen no drops hope this works for people and fix this problem that I also have been looking for
I sometimes suffer from the occasional WiFi drop too. It doesn't always happen so its hard to pinpoint the cause but it does occur. I went into the settings as you mentioned but my choices are "cubic" and "reno". I switched it to "reno" to see if what you suggested works..
Will update soon, testing....
thanks,
rlee
i think its your wifi router maybe you need a better antenna
Soul Train said:
i think its your wifi router maybe you need a better antenna
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I have seen bad router placement and inadequate antenna coverage cause it too.
There are beaucoup free plans for home-built boosted antennas if you search it, but my old trusty D-link 624 still gives me a usable connection all around the house and Motorhome.
well this is day 2 of playing my my touchpad and my have seen one drop but that could of been because I was spittle out of range.... Well I don't think its my router because I go into setting of the router off my touch pad to see my signal I'm getting and the lowest I have seen is 90%..... Well one thing is that I have seen before changing the setting is that I did get the drops now I don't know if I'm getting them at all but maybe one time but I could of been out of range with that
rlee008 said:
I sometimes suffer from the occasional WiFi drop too. It doesn't always happen so its hard to pinpoint the cause but it does occur. I went into the settings as you mentioned but my choices are "cubic" and "reno". I switched it to "reno" to see if what you suggested works..
Will update soon, testing....
thanks,
rlee
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Well it may also be what I'm running why I have those come up but I'm using F15C Eagle so they may have something different with that
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Well it may also be what I'm running why I have those come up but I'm using F15C Eagle so they may have something different with that
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I just did the change to Reno yesterday, also having random no internet connection problem as well on F15C Eagle. So far on overnight charge and first use this morning, I did not have to do a device reset to connect to the net like every morning.
Will see how it goes during the day out from sleep mode and into heavy browsing for a few hours.
the truth of my thoughts is that I don't think it has nothing to do with the WiFi router at all things are not adding up to it but I really thing the software end on because I was going to look up the different of the why so many types but as I think I see it the Westwood setting is to heavy of a data transfer that the touchpad can handle so that's why I set it to a different one maybe I'm right maybe I'm wrong but I don't see any problems as of yet on my touchpad when it comes to getting online or doing anything with it yet because of changing it to “reno”
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I just did the change to Reno yesterday, also having random no internet connection problem as well on F15C Eagle. So far on overnight charge and first use this morning, I did not have to do a device reset to connect to the net like every morning.
Will see how it goes during the day out from sleep mode and into heavy browsing for a few hours.
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another way is to put it into airplane mode and back off so you don't have to restart it all the time
No this is a problem with the TP. I did a few different test with different devices using different routers at different location's. The TP is the only one that would loose connection. Even with manually setting it up it can go in and out... I am using warthog. Mine does it about 3 times a day...
So you tried what I stated up top???? If so it was still dropping WiFi 3 times a day
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My TP has the same problem. I know it is not my router placement, as all my other wifi devices work everywhere in my home with 75% or higher signal strength. Only the TP stops working.
What is annoying is that it shows it is still connected to the wireless, but nothing works at all.
I'll give the Govnah setting change a try...
No i have not tried what you said above. I will and report back.
well from what I see I still haven't gotten a drop yet and that's all around my house but I really don't think its the router because yea as everyone has said it says that it is still connected but no internet connection but go into your settings of your router from your touchpad and log into it and look at connected devices and see the signal that it is getting and you will see it is getting good signal but it well maybe.... Everybody house is different from another person you know but as before I don't think it is the router at all it is far to wide that everyone is thinking the same thing with different routers and all but also everyone is also saying that everything else is working also so that is why I'm come to believe it is the touchpad
Last night I tried to watch some xfactor videos in youtube and I got frustrated. I only managed to watch 1 or 1.5 videos before I loose the connection. The wifi indicator is still saying connected but the video just stop with small circular cursor running.
Today I tried to remove Muffle-System-Logging (it was on .23 version) and now I've been watching about 5 videos without any interruption.
BTW I'm using Warthog kernel, OC to 1.7Ghz.
heru said:
Last night I tried to watch some xfactor videos in youtube and I got frustrated. I only managed to watch 1 or 1.5 videos before I loose the connection. The wifi indicator is still saying connected but the video just stop with small circular cursor running.
Today I tried to remove Muffle-System-Logging (it was on .23 version) and now I've been watching about 5 videos without any interruption.
BTW I'm using Warthog kernel, OC to 1.7Ghz.
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may have to look into that one also..... I have that intalled..... So did you do what I have posted or did you just removed the muffle-system-logging??
soulre2 said:
may have to look into that one also..... I have that intalled..... So did you do what I have posted or did you just removed the muffle-system-logging??
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Oh yes, last night when I got that problem I tried to change the TCP Congestion option to reno but the problem was still there.
Another item of note.
On my router it shows all connected wireless clients. There are currently 2 phones, a laptop, and the touchpad connected.
The phones and laptop show mode 11g rate 54
The touchpad shows mode 11ng rate 19
well it looks like you maybe a little bit out of range from your router because of the connection speed but really still don't see that its the router you know well I don't know if I have been dropping or not at this point really haven't been on it all that much because of work and having kids but we all need to get together and try and fix this problem that most people are having with this but where to start is my question on it??? But one thing I know for sure it has to be the touchpad because everything else in everyone's house is working fine
Looks like the change helped a little, worked nearly all day without drop outs until late last night just browsing xda. I am not experiencing wake from sleep problem yet with Reno.
Hi,
I do have a WDS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_distribution_system) at home and use it a lot when walking from room to room.
Recently I noticed, that the Archos device doesnt handle the WDS properly. When I look at the WiFi signal it jumps from good to bad, so I think it jumps from one AP to another AP, although I am not moving. I noticed it first when I was downloading a big file and the rates where flapping from fast to slow all the time.
Does anyone else have these issues? I use UD 1.5. My Laptops and other devices (HTC Desire, HTC Magic, Samsung Ace, ...) work perfect, I tested them all!
Regards,
Alex
I have set up WDS at home as well, and encountered no problem whatsoever with either UD1.0 or UD1.5.1.
Archos should be able to choose the stronger signal and connect, although at times it may still have connected to the weaker signal AP instead of the stronger one, for me that's not too much of a concern as both APs have fast connections anyway, that should be the reason you set up WDS in the first place.... so why would you care which AP it is connected to?
ray1234 said:
... both APs have fast connections anyway, that should be the reason you set up WDS in the first place.... so why would you care which AP it is connected to?
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Ummm ... if it doesn't matter which AP you connect to, what could possibly be the point of having more than one AP?!?!
I am no expert in this, but I believe, that when you set up a WDS, then both APs sent out all the BSSIDs of the systems inside the WDS.
This is what happens in my opinion:
When the Archos 70IT see's the good signal (broadcast), everything is fine. When the broadcast from the second AP arrives with a weak signal, the A70IT goes from 55MBit/s or whatever speed it was to 11 or 1 Mbit/s or whatever. At least it seems so.
Do you guys understand what I mean?
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Ummm ... if it doesn't matter which AP you connect to, what could possibly be the point of having more than one AP?!?!
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Don't quite understand your point, the SSID of all APs under WPS is the same, and for me all routers are the same speed - ok, the client WPS router is half the speed of the main AP because the client has to receive and transmit at the same time, but it is still at 65Mbps, which is over the max speed of the G connection the Archos is capable of. The whole point of WDS is you shouldn't need to care which router/AP it is connected to, you seem to be connecting to the same one router/AP everywhere around the WDS network.
alex2308 said:
When the Archos 70IT see's the good signal (broadcast), everything is fine. When the broadcast from the second AP arrives with a weak signal, the A70IT goes from 55MBit/s or whatever speed it was to 11 or 1 Mbit/s or whatever.
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Archos should be able to choose the stronger signal. For me, I seldom get the case, if one signal is very strong and the other is so week it drops to below 11Mbps, Archos should be able to choose the stronger signal automatically.
Thats the point, it should do that, but it seems like it doesnt do this very good! The whole WiFi isnt quite good in the Archos (signal quality isnt good).
I recently purchased the 16gb Sony Tablet S and am contemplating on whether or not to return it by the 30 day window due to sporadic wifi connection at my apartment. The issue is not as much the reobtaining wifi after the screen unlocks, as it is the general holding of the wifi connection when the screen is on.
I've isolated the problem to my specific router, as it works PERFECTLY at my GF's apt and my parent's house. Always connects right away and stays connected. However at my apt it doesn't always connect right way and have to manually turn the wifi off and on again, and sometimes have to manually hit connect from the wifi screen. When it finally obtains IP address it will connect, but most of the time for only a short period (like 20-30 seconds) before the wifi signal on bottom right just disappears. Then I have to toggle the wifi on and off again and try again. Very annoying. Sometimes it will connect though, and the wifi holds up like it should.
Here are the fixes I've tried so far:
* Reset and Factory Rest device
* Forget/Reconnect to network from device
* Update Router Firmware
* Configure Router - g/n mode and n mode from b/g/n
* Set Router Channel from auto to 1,6 and 11.
* Wifi Lock App (doesn't work and drains battery)
Personally, I feel like the tablet itself has an inferior wireless radio. Compared side by side to my other wifi devices, it has noticeably less signal at the router and diminishes quicker the farther away you go. Now, this doesn't really bother me as I'm usually always near my router. However, when I was scanning all the wifi networks around me (in cmd: netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid) I found over 30 networks around me all using the full channel spectrum. I've tried every channel on my router, but 11 seems the best.
Would a crowded wifi area affect the tablet? But again, my laptop, 2 phones, and PS3 connect at every channel with no problems at my apt. At my parent's house and GF's apt there are only 1 or 2 other available networks that could also be on my channel. That's the only thing I can think of.
I just don't understand why only the tablet is having wifi problems.
I have about a week left to return it, and would like to keep the tablet, but running out of patience. Next, I think I will try using MAC address and see if that works.
Any help would be appreciated!
Try this!
I had the same issue.
I solved the problem
1 - turn off wifi.
2- in accounts - turn off "auto connect"
3- turn on wifi ( test if work )
4- reconect the accounts
too simple .. but works , try it.
Would a crowded wifi area affect the tablet? But again, my laptop, 2 phones, and PS3 connect at every channel with no problems at my apt.
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Thats certaintly not the problem since i have so many devices logged in on my network, and not having the same problems,
The Wi-Fi on Sony tablet has known issue's like loosing connection when screen goes standby, even if you checked this in settings never to shut down.
The steps in the post above can be the sollution, and if not, sony will make somehow a repair or a dev would fix this. goodluck.
setterose said:
I had the same issue.
I solved the problem
1 - turn off wifi.
2- in accounts - turn off "auto connect"
3- turn on wifi ( test if work )
4- reconect the accounts
too simple .. but works , try it.
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Thanks. I tried that sequence and it seemed to work for a little bit, but then the problems reoccurred.
Again, the problem is not just that the wifi doesn't pick up right away after standby, but also, and more importantly, it looses wifi BEFORE the screen goes out while I'm using it, repeatedly.
Its very annoying and only happens at my apt and not at other networks. No other device on my network has this problem.
Nobody else has had this problem before?
I remember from older posts that tablet s has problem with certain brand routers. What routers are used in your places.
Kermit33 said:
I remember from older posts that tablet s has problem with certain brand routers. What routers are used in your places.
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Its a ZyXel brand router that doesn't work. I'm pretty sure the one's that do work are both Linksys. The ZyXel router is probably a cheap one because it came bundled in a promotion from my ISP.
I guess I could try another n router, but still find it strange that all my other wifi devices are fine with the current router.
Wifi Signal
Sony is not as reliable as it used to be... My Tablet S keeps loosing WiFi signal, and the solution I found was to turn off and back on the WiFi. This fix the issue.
However another very annoying problem is that very often I need to hard reset the tablet as it locks the screen with no other way to recover it. Shame on Sony. An the annoying side flash light is ridiculous. I used to have an A100 that aside any design issues, worked perfectly never had any operational issue with it. Should have upgraded to a A500...
What worked for me.
I bought a Sony S as a birthday present for my wife. That was yesterday and today she went to work and left me to set it up for her.
I have a Cisco E3200 router. The tablet could see my router and connect to it but would drop the connection after 5 seconds.
Well, that was the first hour and a half of my day.
Finally, with nothing else to try, I set up a guest account on the router. The tablet found it and connected to it on the first attempt and has been connected now for over four hours including multiple restarts.
I have no idea why this worked. I just know that it did.
Clive.
Same issues here when docking tablet sometimes, but my work around is to turn WiFi off, and hit Fast Reboot ( app by Great Bytes Software) then turn WiFi back on. Fast Reboot seems to do a soft reboot on apps and system and it only takes a few seconds.
Hope this helps!
Maui
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Wifi Issues
I bought the 32G version from Woot recently. The WiFi reception is awful. I am on my second unit same thing.
4 feet from Router (on 2nd floor), 3 bars out of 4. 15 feet goes to 2. Downstairs goes to 1 bar 1MBS. And drops like a hot potato. Sony has sent a RMA for repair. Being this is my second unit with same issue, I doubt there is a fix.
I use a LAptop, netbook, android phone on the same router. No issues. They all work well, even in the basement!
Updated to 4.0 on my original unit, no change.
Just ranting here, hoping for a surprise fix. Other than that Mrs Lincoln how was the play? I love the tablet otherwise. Will probably throw and a spare router downstairs or feed it off my 4G phone. Now that really sucks..LOL
Anyone else
4.03 can solve this problem?
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4.03 can solve this problem?
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4.03 did not make a difference.
**EDITED: pls ignore this post. irrelevant.
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sony tablet s wifi issue
Hi all,
after weeks of study here is what i found out:
- wifi issue is not a hard ware issue, it is simply the software.
- wifi issue occurs only with certain routers with both N & G channels , Especially Netgear and BT.
- Wifi manger app makes it better and less annoying, issue still there but less occurring. try different channels.
- Tablet S for some reason does not like the channels used by certain Routers.
- do not bother with wifi lock app, does not do the job and steals ur battery.
- after weeks of trial, tablet is just great, but needs attention from Google.
SO
My friend's wife works for Google, when asked for the favor of the insider , engineers in Google said, first stage is to roll out Xperia release 5 to try and fix problem, then both S and Xperia will get Jelly bean with a definite fix. Testing as we speak.
all I can do now is get a good router and hope for the best.
Fatthyrahim said:
Hi all,
SO
My friend's wife works for Google, when asked for the favor of the insider , engineers in Google said, first stage is to roll out Xperia release 5 to try and fix problem, then both S and Xperia will get Jelly bean with a definite fix. Testing as we speak.
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Straight from the horse's mouth??? Tablet S will infact be getting Jelly Bean???
Fatthyrahim said:
all I can do now is get a good router and hope for the best.
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what do you think about sitecom routers?
WIFI More
Fatthyrahim said:
Hi all,
after weeks of study here is what i found out:
- wifi issue is not a hard ware issue, it is simply the software.
- wifi issue occurs only with certain routers with both N & G channels , Especially Netgear and BT.
- Wifi manger app makes it better and less annoying, issue still there but less occurring. try different channels.
- Tablet S for some reason does not like the channels used by certain Routers.
- do not bother with wifi lock app, does not do the job and steals ur battery.
- after weeks of trial, tablet is just great, but needs attention from Google.
SO
My friend's wife works for Google, when asked for the favor of the insider , engineers in Google said, first stage is to roll out Xperia release 5 to try and fix problem, then both S and Xperia will get Jelly bean with a definite fix. Testing as we speak.
all I can do now is get a good router and hope for the best.
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I have tried 3 different Routers.
Verizon/ActionTecMi424
CheckPoint Z-100G
Linksys WRT54GL
No change no difference.
I finally installed another router on the other floor. Now it works in entire house, but have to change router connections if I move to a different floor.
The big question here I think is:
Is every Tablet S this way or do we have some bad samples? Software or Hardware. Sony has given me and RMA # to return for repair. I am hesitant to do that. If there is no fix or all units are this way.
I am not 100% sure but from my own testing I found it working 90% of the time everywhere else, here is how I tested:
home netgear, does not hold wifi , have to refresh page all the time to browse internet.
Work ( different router not sure what type yet) works just like a dream, fast no wifi drops no refreshes needed.
took it to most free wifi spots, not a problem.
friends house BT, Same issue again.
Wifi manager made it a bit better yes ( have to test now on channels 12 , 13 or 15 , wifi lock app does not work.
I hate to get a different router to get same issue at the end. however different posts elsewhere suggested setting router to N on and G off channels testing each time you make a change, on tablet set to manual ( have not done this bit yet).
It's not like we are all being picky here with Sony, we like the tablet itself and we bought it with a lot of money, we want to be able to browse the internet download things without getting our livers and kidneys enlarged.
more to follow , I am really hoping to be able to get my friend's wife update as she told us GOOGLE IS VERY AWARE OF THE ISSUE.
air16 said:
what do you think about sitecom routers?
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Bought Sitecom Router last friday, I can say that now my tablet holds wifi signal very well... :good:
WIFI Issue fixed
All,
there was an update last Thursday that fixed the wifi issue, I am not really sure what but my tablet s now holds and keeps wifi everywhere.
I had issued before with netgear and bt routers and after last Thursday it was just fine, i need to review the recent updates done and Let you all know.
I tried it everywhere and works perfect, download speed is perfect , not one drop of wifi so far.
I assume either Sony or Google did something here as it was getting an update last Thursday that lasted about 10 minutes, could not figure out what was that update yet.
Hello. I bought a S3 Pebble Blue 16gb about 6 months ago. The prone its not locked and camed from Free Mobile network in France. Since then I had wifi problems ... signal dropping, constant speed 5Mb, no wifi N. I waited for new firmwares ... tried modified ROM's like Omega but still no luck. With the new ROM for France JZO54K I can see some small improvements (the wifi connects a little faster and there is a small increase in speed) but the wifi is still pretty unusable. I have 3 different Wifi N Routers at Home and all connect for a brief time at 65MB or &@ in wifi N and then drops to wifi B or G down to 5MB or 1 MB. When I connect for 30 seconds the internet works well but after that u cannot use it anymore ... the speed is very very low. The 3G network works a lot faster than my wifi. I have tried different routers and the same results. I invited 2 of my friend with Galaxy s3 and their phones connect ok in wifi N 72MB to my router. I have a Iphone and Ipad that both work well on my network so the routers are out of the question. I have tried all the "fixes" i could find on the internet with no luck. Do you think this could be a problem that the guarantee could fix it? I dont want to send the phone and to get it back the same when they see that the wifi works ... but with 5mb ....
I made a small movie to explain the "things" better.
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=B13a-3k1Pu8
Thanks in advance
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naighba said:
Hello. I bought a S3 Pebble Blue 16gb about 6 months ago. The prone its not locked and camed from Free Mobile network in France. Since then I had wifi problems ... signal dropping, constant speed 5Mb, no wifi N. I waited for new firmwares ... tried modified ROM's like Omega but still no luck. With the new ROM for France JZO54K I can see some small improvements (the wifi connects a little faster and there is a small increase in speed) but the wifi is still pretty unusable. I have 3 different Wifi N Routers at Home and all connect for a brief time at 65MB or &@ in wifi N and then drops to wifi B or G down to 5MB or 1 MB. When I connect for 30 seconds the internet works well but after that u cannot use it anymore ... the speed is very very low. The 3G network works a lot faster than my wifi. I have tried different routers and the same results. I invited 2 of my friend with Galaxy s3 and their phones connect ok in wifi N 72MB to my router. I have a Iphone and Ipad that both work well on my network so the routers are out of the question. I have tried all the "fixes" i could find on the internet with no luck. Do you think this could be a problem that the guarantee could fix it? I dont want to send the phone and to get it back the same when they see that the wifi works ... but with 5mb ....
I made a small movie to explain the "things" better.
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=B13a-3k1Pu8
Thanks in advance
The link for the video is in my signature
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I have the same problem, although my phone worked perfectly for about 6 months. I thought in the beginning that my WiFi chip was broken. through multiple drops from small distances. But I can't help you more then just saying that I have EXACTLY the same problem. The WiFi at home works for my PC, MAC, Ipad, Iphone(s), and all my other media, flawlessly. So the only thing I can think of is that we join forces and search the forums and keep track of new ways to fix the issue. Good luck and please post back if You find the solution.
Thanks for the reply. I'm considering calling Samsung for the waranty but I allready know their answer ... "does the wifi works ? ... yes ... Well there is no problem" and the waiting time in France I heard its from 2 to 6 weeks ...
There are some smart solutions one can try but they require some software on Pc and so forth. Look at the post named (my galaxy s3 won't connect to wifi), on the Q&A section for sgs3 here. They give some tips
Try friend gl
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Hi dude.
Now after some time I have a working phone. This phone has given me more then one headache. The wifi problem I had seemed to be kernel specific. When I started with faryaabs supernexus rom M1 (latest) the phone seemed to work. Instead the phone startes freezing. I solved this to through the DFG method in the ulultimate freezing thread here on xda. So my recommendation is to root install cmw recovery and try faryaabs latlatest rom. Heck you might like it.
Im currently on the leaked 4.2.2 touchwiz. Works ok!!
Cheers
Niko
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