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Galaxy Tab 32Gb Wifi.
I'm suffering from extremely slow wifi transfer speeds.
In ES FileExplorer, when copying a file from LAN, transfers are below 0,5 Mb/minute. Running http://www.speedtest.net will show download speeds of around 20kb/s....
I experienced this on the stock ROM with the root update, and on the Bonsai ROM also. The only time i didn't recall having these issues is on stock ROM unrooted.
Any ideas?
ps. My Wifi access point is a TP-LINK n-router with dd-wrt. Connection show a TX rate to the Tab of around 60Mbs and a receive rate of N/A (meaning, to slow to show?)
Encryption is WPA2/EAS, long pressing the Wifi entry on the tab shows a linkspeed of 5Mbps. It shows 65Mbps right after connecting but then drops, meaning the android os just isnt asking for more speed it seems
update: downloading a 5Mb file from XDA took around 30 seconds, thats more like it. The slowness seems restricted to LAN SMB shares.
update2: solved! It turned out my router with DDWRT firmware ran out of JFFS2 memory. This is a dedicatedportion of the routers flas memory to store custom programs or small webservers etc.I have no idea why it was enabled, all i know is the minute i disabled it, LAN transfer speeds increased tremendously. Now i know also why i had to reboot my router every now and then becauseof connection problems....
Hahaha. Something similar happened to me. It was also the router.
Man thanks a ton for posting the solution! I googled to this thread and restarting the modem solved my problem too. I've come across so many idiots who just posts "I found the solution/Problem solved" and that just pisses me off!
Thanks once again!
Edit: Sry for bumping this but i had to post!
Hi,
I have the same issue with my Netgear DGN2200v3, and I've seen it uses JFFS2 as well.
I'm not sure to install a custom firmware to solve the problem but I've also read something about changing the way the file system is mounted (i.e. rw instead of r).
Do you think the only solution would be to get rid of this fu...ng JFFS2?
Hey guys,
sorry if this is a stupid question or its been asked before, but how can I test the wifi connection speed on my Prime? There must be a way to do it as all of the reviews have results..
Thanks for any info.
Search market for speed test speedtest.net have a nice app for that
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thanks for the reply but i've tried that, it just tests my internet connection speed. I want to test my local wifi network speed
That is what a wifi test is doing is checking your internet speed.
Now if you want to check your signal strength, then look in the market for apps called wifi analyzer.
Speedtest is serverside so the max speed is going to be dependant on my internet connection.. all i'm interested in is my local speed.
Thanks for the replies.
I don't think there is an android app out, but you could go the other way around.
You could download a lan speed test for your PC and then connect to the IP address of your tablet/connected device and test the speed?
Maybe that will work for you?
Dnakaman said:
I don't think there is an android app out, but you could go the other way around.
You could download a lan speed test for your PC and then connect to the IP address of your tablet/connected device and test the speed?
Maybe that will work for you?
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Ah now that's thinking outside the box!
Cheers, i'll give it a go.
You need to have some sort of server and an app to download files from that server.
I tested download speed from my nasserver to my Galaxy S2 to compare Wifi G vs Wifi N.
Went from 2.26MB/s on G to 3.66 MB/s on N wifi.
"Filesize / seconds"
My laptop is 10mb/s on same N wifi netowrk.. could be faster but is only 100mbit lan netowork..
Transferring a (large) file from a server to your tablet would measure not only local WiFi speed, but Prime's internal capability of processing and storing data. I just did a quick test downloading a file from my work's Samba server and got speeds of about 0.6 and 2.5 kbytes/s for the Prime and my laptop, respectively. This is in line with kunddizzle, who got laptop speeds about four times faster that from the Prime.
This is interesting. Clearly, WiFi speed is not everything. Prime doesn't seem to be dealing very well with incoming data. Don't know whether it is due to its WiFi receiver, processor, memory, storage or something else. But, at least in two cases reported here, it is slower than a laptop on the same network.
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thanks for the reply but i've tried that, it just tests my internet connection speed. I want to test my local wifi network speed
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Hi,
I known it's an old thread, but I had the same problem and was not able not find any local wifi speed test application after read a tons of forum. So I've just written an android application that can do that test. Maybe it will be useful for you too.
Just find "wifi speed test" (pzolee) on Google Play.
I am not a big expert in android programming but I tried to do my best
I tried Es explorer and got 0.5MB/s I tried Air android and got 2MB/s.
Both the phone and the computer connected to a D-Link 2650U router which can provide much faster transfer rates according to its datasheet.
I used an application called Network Speed to measure the results - can it be trusted?
Hi all.
I recently got the Z3 Compact and was enthusiastic about its WiFi transfer speeds when connected to my PC. My earlier phone the Nokia 5800 XM did it at a pretty good speed, and so I was expecting the 5 year jump to a new phone with newer technology would have massively improved on the network file transfer speed.
I tried 2 ways to transfer huge files (1 GB+) to and fro between my PC & the phone.
1.) I used the a couple of the many WiFi Transfer Apps, including Wifi File Transfer Pro & Airdroid.
2.) I turned on an FTP server on my phone via the FTPServer & My FTP Server apps, and then tried the file transferring using FileZilla on my PC.
However, even after using both the methods, I noticed that I was only getting speeds of about 3 MBps. I read in one of the forum threads that the speed might be getting slowed down due to "encryption" while using a non-ftp server based method, and that is why I gave the FTP Server method a try as well. To no avail though.
My Wi-Fi router is the Digisol DG-BG4100N and it boasts of bollocky 100 Mbps+ speeds. My PC is the Asus SX086D K55VM.
What am I doing wrong here? How do I get a faster transfer rate? Xender easily does 5 MBps on an average between two devices. Surely, the PC should be able to equalize that speed, if not better it, right? Thanks a ton for any suggestion you'd like to make, including your own method of the fastest wireless file transfer method between a PC and an Android device.
EDIT - This is the first time I'm posting a thread here at XDA, kindly advise if I have posted it to the wrong sub-directory.
I've searched the p30 pro section but couldn't find any info on this. If I've missed this I'm truly sorry!
On my local nas server I'm getting kinda slow transfer rates when using many different file explorers (with or without smb2. 0) from the market. The fastest I could find was doing about 12 MBps on my asus rt-ac68u 5G wifi. With the stock app transfer speeds are at least 5 times faster (about the maximum possible over my wifi connection)
Does anyone know why this is, or has anyone got a file manager working that isn't this slow? For the moment I'm using the huawei manager for large file transfers but It's interface is really primitive imho.