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!
Rooted photon working settings
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.
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I have a Motorola Xoom and I get 72Mbps on Wireless N 2.4ghz, and while at the same time I am getting 6Mbps in the same location on the Moto Photon . I have a Netgear 4000 (N750) and I am about 7ft away with both devices. Is the WiFi Radio that Horrible in the Photon. Wireless SUCKS. I am on Channel 11 (the only person in the neighborhood, everyone else is still on default channel 6).
Anyone else having this issue. I just got this today and Love the phone, and but the Wireless is Terrible and may force me to take it back. I have Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner Plus 25Mbps Down & 2Mbps Up. I am baffled. Unless the Photon Wireless Radio SUCKS BALLS. I have updated the PRL & Profile.
What are you using to check your wifi speeds? Is it the same app on both?
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What are you using to check your wifi speeds? Is it the same app on both?
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I am using WiFi Analyzer on my Xoom only. I called Moto and Sprint and it has been escalated. 6Mbps is Rediclous. I have been doing this IT thing for 15+ years (installed AP's, Routers, Switches etc.etc) and NEVER have seen a WiFi Signal fluxuate like the Photon's does (from 72Mbps to 11Mbps in the matter of a couple of minutes or if I move around). I even turned off my 5ghz SSID and that did not help. It's really wierd.
Edit: I am now using the same WiFi Analyzer on my Photon and it shows the same results
Is 6Mbps too slow to load things on a phone? I guess I'm confused what you'd need more speed for on a phone...
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I have a Motorola Xoom and I get 72Mbps on Wireless N 2.4ghz, and while at the same time I am getting 6Mbps in the same location on the Moto Photon . I have a Netgear 4000 (N750) and I am about 7ft away with both devices. Is the WiFi Radio that Horrible in the Photon. Wireless SUCKS. I am on Channel 11 (the only person in the neighborhood, everyone else is still on default channel 6).
Anyone else having this issue. I just got this today and Love the phone, and but the Wireless is Terrible and may force me to take it back. I have Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner Plus 25Mbps Down & 2Mbps Up. I am baffled. Unless the Photon Wireless Radio SUCKS BALLS. I have updated the PRL & Profile.
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I'm seeing 18/17mb down and ~10 up using speedtest on my 802.11n 2.4ghz wifi.. dlink router if it makes a difference, using wpa2
(my internet's capable of 50/10)
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Just out of curiosity I ran a speed test
- i have 22x5 Connection. Only 1 bar signal on the wifi meters on the phone cause I'm pretty far from my router. Not too bad though.
Test Date: Aug 17, 2011 12:06:54 am
Connection Type: Wifi
Server: Minnesota City, MN
Download: 20891 kbps
Upload: 3137 kbps
Ping: 14 ms
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ghodzilla5150 said:
I have a Motorola Xoom and I get 72Mbps on Wireless N 2.4ghz, and while at the same time I am getting 6Mbps in the same location on the Moto Photon . I have a Netgear 4000 (N750) and I am about 7ft away with both devices. Is the WiFi Radio that Horrible in the Photon. Wireless SUCKS. I am on Channel 11 (the only person in the neighborhood, everyone else is still on default channel 6).
Anyone else having this issue. I just got this today and Love the phone, and but the Wireless is Terrible and may force me to take it back. I have Time Warner Cable (Roadrunner Plus 25Mbps Down & 2Mbps Up. I am baffled. Unless the Photon Wireless Radio SUCKS BALLS. I have updated the PRL & Profile.
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I'm getting 20Mbps down on WiFi with a Dlink 4500 Wireless N router.
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Is 6Mbps too slow to load things on a phone? I guess I'm confused what you'd need more speed for on a phone...
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It's not too slow, BUT my Xoom gets ALOT better WiFi reception (has a better WiFi Radio). I feel the WiFi Radio in the Photon is Crap (8 Radio's in the Photon and the most important one is garbage, alot of people will use WiFi). Hopefully there is a Firmaware update that fixes it. We don't buy these expensive WiFi Routers to get 6Mbps. Even the guys at Sprint agreed with me. That's low. Should see at least 28Mbps and above with the router I have.
I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine after doing this for so long, I know what I should be getting and it bothers me. Especially when WIFi Analyzer says my signal is Awesome.
Seems to be happening a lot with Hotspot + 4G on any rom I've used.
If I try and use 4G while on hotspot, it could work for a hour like it did this morning now 4G only works on the phone itself.
Now 3G on hotspot works perfect currently but kinda redundant when I wanna use the 4G feature, thus why I got the Thunderbolt.
Anyone else ever encounter issues with the Hotspot feature? Seems a lot of people do even if they are paying for it and not paying for it.
I am running Nons3ns3 on my TBolt Hotspot is real slow. I am in a 4g area and my phone shows 4g, but my download speeds are 1-2 mbps tops and it fluctuates. It just seems something is up.
I have tried Open Garden and Barnacle, both work about the same in terms of slow speeds.
Im getting the same exact results across 4 different ROMS I've flashed since I've had this phone. I'm on TheROM fyi.
I'm in the Chicago area on base and its good, but bloody hell Verizon doesn't have LTE top notch and I'm grandfathered in for the Unlimited plan still before they switched
I have found many roms that 4g tether works on, but the speeds are not very fast. Clearwire has a 4g tower in my small town and I can get nearly 10Mb down, but can only get about 2 to 3 down with tether. Any rom suggestions would be great.
thanks
Jason
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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Wifi is awesome. I am getting wifi signals while driving along the interstate in Houston, however 3g and LTE are terrible and this is supposed to be one of the first LTE areas for Sprint.
The phone barely connects to the internet while my wife's EVO 3d can get a signal easy. For example I tried to load the maps app while sitting at a traffic light and kept getting no connection. While hers loaded up almost instantly. Tried the same with the internet browser.
Both phones are rooted. Anyone else having data connection issues when not using WIFI?
no problems in the SW suburbs of Chicago...you need to call Sprint and tell them exactly where the problem areas are..
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Wifi is awesome. I am getting wifi signals while driving along the interstate in Houston, however 3g and LTE are terrible and this is supposed to be one of the first LTE areas for Sprint.
The phone barely connects to the internet while my wife's EVO 3d can get a signal easy. For example I tried to load the maps app while sitting at a traffic light and kept getting no connection. While hers loaded up almost instantly. Tried the same with the internet browser.
Both phones are rooted. Anyone else having data connection issues when not using WIFI?
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I'm in Houston too and experiencing the same issues as you. According to my friend who is an engineer for Sprint here in Houston, there's already Spark work being done extensively here. Take that with a grain of salt but that's what I was told tonight.
Edit: Here I am 3 days later and my service has greatly improved. I had my phone for less than 24 hours when posting before but things have settled up nicely and I'm now pulling faster speeds than I ever did on T-Mobile.
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