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Hello,
I just bought a GTab and am really excited about it. However, I am not particularly happy with the wi-fi range of the device. It goes to zero bars barely 15 feet away from the router. Did anyone else face similar problems? Let me know
Yup. I lose a bar just by turning my chair away from my router. No solution so far.
Thanks, How long have you had the device? Did you contact Customer Service?
Could be your router. I have no problem using my tab anywhere in the house and out on the patio with a crappy old D-link.
I don't get a full signal, but it is enough to stream my music and browse fine.
Google "cantenna" and you will find a cheap and easy way to extend your range.
This is actually one thing that amazed me about the g-tablet. I Took my g-tab to my mom's house and logged into their unsecured Linksys router. It worked fine, no issues whatsoever. My mother lives a block from the church where I serve as an elder (roughly 50-60 yards away...) I took my g-tablet to a meeting one evening, opened the case, and found that I was already connected to network. I hadn't had a chance to set up the church's network yet...the Tablet actually automatically connected to my mother's network. The signal isn't the strongest, but I hadn't expected ANY signal whatsoever. It works fine in every room of my house as well.
I ended up setting up the Church's network, but the g-tab still automatically connects to my mother's when I'm anywhere near there. My Pastor said that it's because the church's router is has protection and that typically linux based devices tend ot take the path of least resistence. I'd prefer if it checked for the strongest signal, first, though.
I agree it soundls like your router unless you got a leamon. My router is in m livingroom and my gTab drops only one bar when it is in the bedroom, meaning the wifi signal is going through the bathroom to get there, through 2 walls and maybe 15 feet, no line of sight.
When it is charging in the kitchen the signal goes 20 feet and through one wall, again no line of sight, and if I position the tablet just right I can get no bars dropped.
I have a wifi-g router, Westell I think (whatever wifi router Verizon sent me lol). I haven't tried the gTab outside yet, but my daughter's iPod tough can get a weak signal in the back yard and the router is in the livingroom at the front of the house.
mike_ekim said:
My router is in m livingroom and my gTab drops only one bar when it is in the bedroom, meaning the wifi signal is going through the bathroom to get there, through 2 walls and maybe 15 feet, no line of sight...
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Well, Mike, this is where the materials used in buiding construction might make a difference.
If sudeep_itbhu is here in India, then the WiFi signals have to pass through dense brick or stone walls to reach his gTablet. In the US, the signals might just have to pass through things like wood or plaster which won't absorb the signals as much. I've brought access points from the US to India only to have it fail miserably because of our brick walls.
sudeep_itbhu, you could try boosting the "Transmit Power" on your wireless router or AP. You can usually change that setting via a browser if you connect to the router.
Of course, my signal is going (from my mother's 100+ year old house to the 80 year old church lounge) through one interior wall, one exterior wall aluminum siding, 50 - 60 yards though a couple trees, power lines all around, through the brick exterior church wall, and through an old wood interior wall and I'll still have a signal. A weak signal, but still a signal.
mike_ekim said:
I have a wifi-g router, Westell I think (whatever wifi router Verizon sent me lol). I haven't tried the gTab outside yet, but my daughter's iPod tough can get a weak signal in the back yard and the router is in the livingroom at the front of the house.
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I just went into my back yard and from about 65 feet away from the router (no line of sight) I was able to surf the web on wireless g. I get 3 or 4 bars everywhere inside on the same floor, 2 bars right outside the house, and it drops to 1 bar by the time I hit the trees. It's wet, I'm not going any further today.
It's just another data point to help you figure out if you have either a bad router signal or a bad tablet, because at 15 feet the gTab is able to get a great signal with an 'no frills' router. Everyone else seems to have similar experience.
@rajeevvp: Agreed. I got the impression he had a bad signal at 15 feet with a direct line of sight, but I may be mistaken.
mine works fine but the only problem that annoys me is that the wifi is always automatically turned off (especially when I turn the screen off and leave it idle). When I turn the screen back on, I need to go to settings and turn the wifi on. is there any ways to solve it?
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I am having the same problem with my wifi not automatically reconnecting after going to sleep. This happens if the tab is off for an extended period of time. I am running vegan 5.1.1. Any ideas???
thanks for your replies, I think I might go and get a replacement and check that out. The range of my device is about 15 yards through a couple of walls. I am in the US.
stolly23 said:
I am having the same problem with my wifi not automatically reconnecting after going to sleep. This happens if the tab is off for an extended period of time. I am running vegan 5.1.1. Any ideas???
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Set your "WiFi sleep policy" to "Never" in Settings > "Wireless & networks" > "Wi-Fi settings" > menu key > "Advanced", and see if that helps.
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Set your "WiFi sleep policy" to "Never" in Settings > "Wireless & networks" > "Wi-Fi settings" > menu key > "Advanced", and see if that helps.
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Thanks for the idea, but I have already checked that. It was already set to never.
TJEvans said:
Of course, my signal is going (from my mother's 100+ year old house to the 80 year old church lounge) through one interior wall, one exterior wall aluminum siding, 50 - 60 yards though a couple trees, power lines all around, through the brick exterior church wall, and through an old wood interior wall and I'll still have a signal. A weak signal, but still a signal.
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The Wi-Fi signal would only have trouble with the brick wall, then.
As for range, the maximum values for 802.11g signals are ~38 m (125 ft) indoors and ~140 m (460 ft) outdoors. In practice, I've found that these maximums decrease considerably.
Using "Wi-Fi Analyzer" I saw a received signal power of ~ -75 dBm 20 ft indoors (through a few intervening brick walls) at the other end of my house. I got ~ -85 dBm ~100 ft away from the back of the house and outside (through the intervening exterior wall and the low garden wall). And, at that signal strength, which is at the very low threshold of the wireless received signal power range, I was only able to see my wireless router, but, I couldn't use it.
At the other end of the signal-strength range, 2 feet away from, and directly in sight of the wireless router, I see a signal strength of ~45 dBm. This means that there is a drop in signal strength of around 3 orders of magnitude (1000x) from one end of my house to the other.
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I ended up setting up the Church's network, but the g-tab still automatically connects to my mother's when I'm anywhere near there. My Pastor said that it's because the church's router is has protection and that typically linux based devices tend ot take the path of least resistence. I'd prefer if it checked for the strongest signal, first, though.
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Nice--A tech-savvy pastor . But, he's wrong about Linux. Linux prefers to connect to the last access point you configured it to connect to (if it can see it). This is the correct behaviour--you wouldn't normally want the tablet to connect to some random access point or wireless router just because its signal strength was higher for some reason.
sudeep_itbhu said:
Hello,
I just bought a GTab and am really excited about it. However, I am not particularly happy with the wi-fi range of the device. It goes to zero bars barely 15 feet away from the router. Did anyone else face similar problems? Let me know
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This tablet, bought Nov 2010, is very good on reception. It picked up 15-20 signals around any communities as we traveled aboard Amtrak from Philadelphia to Denver and return. It also saw a half-dozen signals (other than the in-house networks) when I was in a hospital for 6 days. I like WiFi Analyzer to see what's available.
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I have a few different routers (types) running here (Primary and Clients) for different reasons.
It seems to be router dependent (at least in my case). All are N capable. One stays connected all the way around the block when I walk my dog (yes, I walk my G-Tablet with us). One fades out if I am one house down. The other somewhere in between.
--You can try to reposition your router
--You could get another router, use as a client, or get a range extender
--You could log into the admin panel of your router and determine if you can increase the broadcast power.
--If it doesn't have this option and you are somewhat tech savvy (and have a compatible router), you could flash your router's firmware with DD-WRT (google it) or other similar. It should allow you to increase the broadcast power. You can look up your router on the website to determine compatibility, then carefully follow the directions to flash (standard-if you brick it please do not blame me or them)
--Hope it helps. That is pretty much all I know about this issue. Not sure where you are but the ATT DSL Router (that they provide here in the Bay Area, Cali) does not seem to have a very strong signal and is not (last time i checked) compatible with DD-WRT.
Hello guys..i bought a RAZR XT910 before about 3 weeks and i didnt notice any problems with it at all..its battery life the way i organised it with smart actions is very very good, better than my iphone 4...i have as well those black marks on the screen on low lighting and black pictures but i dont mind this either..as u can almost never see it...my problem is my weak wifi signal..i never noticed it those last 20 days as i have been working on my phone mostly on my computer desk so the phone was next to the router..the only place my phone gets 4/4 in wifi signal its when its next to the router..at 1 meter distance the signal gets 3/4 strength..at 5 meters 2/4 strength and at 10 meters the signal its lost..and this is only when im at the same room that has the router..if i go to another room the signal gets lost..especially when i close the door...i never had any wifi problem with my previous smartphones and i even had wifi outside of my house...please help me here..im quite desperate..what shall i do? return it and demand a replacement? ask for my money back? is there any way to fix this?
I don't have that problem but I'm wondering if you get it with other networks? Also have you tried resetting your router?
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yea i get it with all wifi networks...for example my university, work, home..etc
Hmmm. I just ran the Speedtest app and got 12Mbps download over my wifi. It would be interesting to try that a few places and show it to VZ. Maybe they can test it on their network.
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Heartl3ss said:
Hello guys..i bought a RAZR XT910 before about 3 weeks and i didnt notice any problems with it at all..its battery life the way i organised it with smart actions is very very good, better than my iphone 4...i have as well those black marks on the screen on low lighting and black pictures but i dont mind this either..as u can almost never see it...my problem is my weak wifi signal..i never noticed it those last 20 days as i have been working on my phone mostly on my computer desk so the phone was next to the router..the only place my phone gets 4/4 in wifi signal its when its next to the router..at 1 meter distance the signal gets 3/4 strength..at 5 meters 2/4 strength and at 10 meters the signal its lost..and this is only when im at the same room that has the router..if i go to another room the signal gets lost..especially when i close the door...i never had any wifi problem with my previous smartphones and i even had wifi outside of my house...please help me here..im quite desperate..what shall i do? return it and demand a replacement? ask for my money back? is there any way to fix this?
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Get wifi analyzer and see if you have good signal. I notice that the Wi-Fi graphic is conservative.
my RAZR was having trouble operating on WPA2-Personal secured wifi network.. so i changed the wifi settings to WPA-Personal with TKIP and the problems are gone so you might wanna try this before you RMA.
Mine had problems with dropped and weak signal which turns out to be because I had Bluetooth on as well. If I turn bluetooth off wifi works perfectly
My WiFi reception is appalling. It only see's my home network where as my three year old HTC Hero is seeing seven!
With my package I have the ability to connect to BT Openzone hotspots around the UK.
Not much use if you can't go more than 15ft from a router without the connection dropping!
Bluetooth is off and I have tried several WiFi analysers from the market, all show a very weak signal.
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On mine, yes the wifi signal (bars) are showing less then with htc desire, but I can connect without problems even the router is on the second floor and I am siting on the first, so reachable from the whole house.
I do experience, that it takes a little bit longer to find the wifi as with the desire, but once connected, works just fine.
I do not experience problems with hidden networks. Mine is not broadcasting the id, still connection is stable.
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The bars on mine seem less than what the signal actually is. I connect to my home wifi just fine, from all over the house. I also connect to work's wifi from what seems like the same distance as my previous phone (Dinc)
i'm using d-link dws-125 (usb router)
when i connect and start using internet, the network disconnects in a few seconds. then it connect again and the same... etc.
please, help!!!
same problem here, hope a solution can be found as the phone is unusable in its present state
The "single ball" is enough to achieve 10mbit at my place, however, I upgraded my firmware to OpenWRT and now I get two full lines and the "ball" in the bedroom.
Stock netgear firmware is.. Incomplete. :S
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Hi everybody,
I have the same problem mine is a razr from france even if i use it in italy, i found that when haveing the phone in the hand the signal gets very worst, if i hold the phone from the edges not in the hand the signal is much better i gain two signal bars, the same happens if i left the phone on the desk, the signal gest very good, as soon as i take it in the hand the signal gets bad, a kind of antenna gete from iphone....
hope this helps somebody
used to have this issue with weak wifi signals, but after installing the 85P radio update, it's gotten a bit better.
Is there any mod or fix or even any news at all on how to get wifi roaming working on the s3?
For anyone who doesn't know - if you have multiple routers/access points then when they overlap they do not transition correctly. You have to disconnect and reconnect to get onto the most appropriate router.
I have a router upstairs in the back of the house and downstairs at the front so I can get coverage in the garden etc... if I'm downstairs and move upstairs it'll hang onto the signal from downstairs even if low when the signal from the other router is much better. you have to disconnect and reconnect to get a better signal.
It's the only really annoying thing about this phone!
Edit spoke to samsung uk technical and they said they are aware and it should be fixed in the next firmware but tbh I think they were just bull****ing me.
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Is there any mod or fix or even any news at all on how to get wifi roaming working on the s3?
For anyone who doesn't know - if you have multiple routers/access points then when they overlap they do not transition correctly. You have to disconnect and reconnect to get onto the most appropriate router.
I have a router upstairs in the back of the house and downstairs at the front so I can get coverage in the garden etc... if I'm downstairs and move upstairs it'll hang onto the signal from downstairs even if low when the signal from the other router is much better. you have to disconnect and reconnect to get a better signal.
It's the only really annoying thing about this phone!
Edit spoke to samsung uk technical and they said they are aware and it should be fixed in the next firmware but tbh I think they were just bull****ing me.
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I got the same problem. I got my S3 some weeks ago. All worked fine (or I did not realized the problem). But since the official Jelly Bean update I am also stuck in this problem at work. In our office there are several access points and as along as I stay connected to one of them all is fine. When I leave my desk and fetch a coffee at the meeting point, the S3 should switch to another AP.....So, staying at the meeting point with the coffee but no WiFi... After switching the WiFi off and on, it works again. Coming back to my desktop, I have to switch WiFi off and on again....really anoying bug....
Any solutions? Or maybe Custom ROMS?
Thanks
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Having issues with extremely slow wifi on my device. If I'm upstairs I can't even connect to my router. If I'm downstairs I connect but get horribly slow speeds. My other devices see like 8 wifi networks in my area, but I see only mine with the s4. If I try to enter the name of an open wifi network I know exists in my neighborhood, the S4 can't even see it.
I tested out disabling security on my router, and my speeds jumped up to normal if I was right next to the router. However moving to other locations in the house I still lose connection. If I turn on any kind of wireless security on the router, the speeds are super slow even right next to the router. In the 600Kb range (I have a 20Mb internet).
Almost sounds like a hardware issue to me. Tempted to bring it to Verizon, but who knows if they even have replacement devices at this point.
EDIT: So I managed to get the device to get fast wifi with security turned on by messing with security settings on my router. But if I do a speedtest right next to the router, I get great speeds. If I walk upstairs, and do another test, it's like I went back to 1997. Suddenly my ping is in the hundreds, and I'm getting 56K speeds. Walk downstairs again, and run it again, BAM fast pings and 20Mb downloads. The GNex gets 20Mb speeds throughout the entire house.
I have the device right next to my Galaxy Nexus right now. The GNex can see my network, and 5 others in my area. The S4 can only see my network.
Could very well be a hardware issue with the actual unit - I don't have any WiFi problems at all here - is this running on stock? If so I would recommend seeing if you get a replacement unit if it helps - if not then I would ask what settings are on your router? is it 5ghz (i have had problems with that on ALL devices)
Are you using a case or custom back cover? If so try it without the case/back cover.
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I'm running stock rooted.
I'm using a case, I've tried it without and it makes no difference.
My router also does 2.4ghz and 5ghz, and I've tried both and it makes no difference. I generally use the 5ghz, because the signal is bit better.
The oddest thing to me is that this thing can't see a single other wifi network in my area. My other devices will see multiple wifi networks.
Go into your router and disable (uncheck) the WMM option. Odds are youre having the constant connect/disconnect from some routers, especially but not limited to DLink DIR-655 and DIR 855 models. The disconnects and reconnects are quick enough that you sometimes won't see the wifi icon disappear and reappear.
I had the issue (i have the DIR-655) and unchecking the WMM (Wifi MultiMedia) fixed the issue.
I have that option disabled.
I really think this is just the wifi radio being weak compared to my other devices. Not sure if its a defect, or just the way the verizon s4 is. The performance is fine in the same room as my router, or even in the room directly above it. In the furthest from it in the house, however, the S4 just can't get any connection over barely 1 bar, and the signal in wireless signal info is horrible. Not being able to see other wifi networks in my area is the most telling thing to me. Even if I walk around my neighborhood, I can't see any others. Maybe if I walked right up to someone's house I could, but I haven't wanted to look pervy, so I haven't tried that. :laugh: At this moment my Gnex can see 5 other networks sitting in the exact same spot as my S4. The S4 just sees my networks.
Yeah sounds like yours is defective. On mine I can see networks from all around my neighborhood. (~5 of them)
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So today I finally came into work after being off for awhile, and brought my S4 in for the first time. We have open wifi at work everywhere with multiple access points per floor, so no matter where you are you should get 3-4 bars of wifi signal. From my desk where I usually get the full four bars on my GNex, my S4 gets 1 bar of wifi. Doing a speedtest, I get 2000kbps down, 872kbps up. My GNex gets 35Mb down, and around 25Mb up on the same wifi connection. So yea, there is something seriously wrong with this thing.
Damn I guess I need to flash back to stock and take it in.
I took took mine to Verizon and they swapped it out. This one gets a great wifi signal. The capper was when I was in the store and their display phones could see all the local wifi networks, and mine couldn't. Mine was barely able to connect to their instore wifi. New one works perfectly.
On my previous phones, I'm used to connecting to xfinitywifi if I get a strong signal (i.e. coffees hop), but having to disconnect later as it causes so many issues while driving (grabs signal for a second, but doesn't get data, eventually disconnects but meanwhile I'm left without data)
I noticed that on the Nexus 6p, the phone actually 'roams' on xfinitywifi pretty well. I drove 3 miles between a restaurant and my house last night and it managed to continuously grab different xfinitywifi signals and keep me connected. Impressed.
I'm running ingress on my phone which uses data - so I know it's actually working - data disruptions showup right away on this app (it only happened once for a few seconds during my drive..)This is in San Francisco btw. Might keep xfinitywifi as one of my wifi connections on this phone
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Did you have any of the WiFi toggles enabled under developer options to enable aggressive WiFi to cellular handoff, or mobile data always active?
I have the opposite experience with my 6P, I need to turn off wifi because it latches on all the time and often the signals aren't strong enough and i get no data. I can tell it drops constantly as my VPN connects and reconnects all the time and kills my battery.