I've been using the Vibrant for probably a year and before that I had a g1 for quite a while. In that time I've used the wifi tethering with various ROMs I've loaded. (Docs Master v12 most recently)
I was streaming a podcast this morning and the stream suddenly stopped but never resumed. I opened a new browser window and was redirected to a t-mobile page on tethering. http://offers.t-mobile.com/tethering/upsell.do
From a few news sources/blogs, it looks like they are now able to monitor tethering activity after official upgrades to ICS. Some sources speculate that they can view the same with Rooted/ROM ICS phones now also. Additionally, it seems like sustained streaming or large downloads are enough to flag your acct.
I looked at my recent use from this morning and it shows ~76 MB of continuous usage.
Soooooo, what are you asking?
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I have been using the WiFi connection at work with my Vibrant because I can usually only get Edge here. I setup a new SonicWall ViewPoint server today and noticed something very interesting in regards to bandwidth. My Vibrant has the highest amount of usage.
I don't stream anything to my Vibrant. I have my gmail and exchange synced but other than having it sit on my desk I don't do much with my phone (besides phone calls). As far as I can tell there have been no automatic updates from any market apps.
I'm using Nero B3 if that means anything. I have users who stream Pandora and Youtube all day and I find it very surprising that my phone is sucking up more bandwidth that they are.
Any thoughts or ideas as to why?
Download a system monitor from the Market and see what is using the net.
I'm hoping this is the right section, but I have found a temporary fix for the random dropping of the tether on verizon android devices(where you stay connected but stop being able to torrent or load webpages) I am using an automatic page refresher on chrome(Auto Refresh Plus), reloading google.com every 12 sec. The data connection normally fails after about 5 min when doing a torrent. However, by keeping google refreshing, the torrent keeps its speed of about 800 kbps-1.4mbps. It keeps the torrent going at full speed for a lot longer(about 20min longer for me). I have confirmed it working on both my thunderbolt, and my original Moto Droid 1, and with multiple wireless devices. Let me know if it works for you!
I have the option checked in youtube to pre-load some videos. Since Sprint's 3G connection blows and is almost useless in most cases, I figured this is an amazing feature. One problem is that it doesn't work when I'm on said 3G connection. It works on Wifi when I try to pull up pre-loaded videos but when I'm on 3G it just says "Server Connection Error" every time. Anyone else experience this?
For reference I'm not rooted and on the lastest OTA firmware.
Hey guys. So my Mate 20 Pro has the WEIRDEST issues. When connected to wifi a few web pages etc are not opening. Instagram can't refresh feed etc. But if I use my Mobile Connection or use a Proxy when connected to the wifi everything works. The same wifi connection on the pc works flawlessly. Opens every single page immediately including the ones not opening on the phone, and even plays games effortlessly.
What do you think is holding back this connection on my phone?
Sounds like you were using public WiFi and some tend to use a firewalls which block lots of different things, I was on the train the other day and they didn't allow forums
The wi-fi on my phone has been screwed since day one. It still 'works' for most things, like games and such, but web pages or links in a reddit app will mostly load (the progress bar will speed along and then grind to a halt) and then... Nothing. When I googled around, it seems like Huawei devices in general are known for this - a smattering of people have devices that are simply broken on wi-fi. Now, I haven't done extensive testing, so it may be the wi-fi devices in combination with the phone that are the problem. It isn't like I have tested this with all kinds of types of routers/bands. It certainly is strange, normally when a wi-fi signal is pooched you simply 404 or stop dead. The way my phone 'almost' loads sites makes it feel like an error checksum protocol spiraling out of control, choking the connection.
If I didn't have a lot of data with my plan, I would have attempted to return my phone.
Just wondering if any one else has had this issue or might have so insight to what exactly is going on.
I use KLINK to tether my phone to the computer and never had issues till i got the N200. For some odd reason 99% of the time when i tether via KLINK sites like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Facebook, Minecraft Realms and Marketplace, and a random collection of nongaming or media sites fail to load with a time out error.
If that wasnt odd enough sometimes Netflix and Facebook load perfectly fine or Amazons main page wont load which normally loads fine ( the only constants when its acting up is Prime Videos wont load and Realms/Marketplace)
I tried PDAnet and easytether and strangely neither of them will work at all. Also when i use the built in tether everything works fine
Plus if i enable my VPN everything works fine
And just to double check i tested with my other phone, a Pixel 4, and it works fine.
EDIT: Just wanted to add im on Tmobile Magenta Max 55+
i used to have similar issues with pdanet and easytether. is your n200 rooted? if it is, you can use the vpn hotspot app along with the adguard app for tethering, that's what I'm using right now and everything works great.