Wi-Fi download speed mystery - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Comcast wi-fi internet access : wife's s3, galaxy 8.0 tablet, and toshiba laptop all clocking around 30meg download speeds on speedtest.net, while my s4 will only clock 4-5megs. ALL four will upload same, about 6 meg. Verizon tech referred to Samsung tech who could only recommend a reset which did not help. The recent upgrade to android 4.3 also had no effect. Both s3 and s4 will clock similar 10-25 meg downloads on strong 4g lte connection. Any thoughts?

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Atrix Data Very Inconsistent - Frustrating!

Data speeds have been horribly inconsistent since I got it. I have had several AT&T 3G phones in the same locations I'm using the Atrix and I can say with confidence it's not just the network. In the same spot at the same time a speed test will tell me ~3Mbps down ~1Mbps up and yet it will be horribly slow surfing the web. I'll bench it again a few minutes later and the speed test page won't even load. Apps will complain of no data connectivity and then boom, all of a sudden it's back. The whole time I'll have a 4-5 bars of service and my wife's iPhone sitting right next to it has no problems. Many times I have to reboot the phone to get data service back. Sometimes the data speed is so good I think I left the wifi on. That rarely lasts however.
I have tried nearly every "ROM" and radio in the dev section. I'm currently running the latest AT&T radio and CherryBlur. Is the radio in this thing just a PoS? I was thinking of having it swapped anyway since the front facing camera is completely blocked with pocket lint.
I just got the Atrix as a company phone. I traded in my company iPhone 4 for it for a couple of reasons.
1.) I prefer android phones
2.) I have an upcoming trip to Europe and thought I would have an easier time using the Atrix over there than the iPhone.
3.) I have an android tablet that also has a Tegra 2 chip in it so I thought I could run of the of the games I got for my tablet on this phone.
4.) Both my personal and work cell phones were 3G phones.
After having it for only 2 days, I am not a fan. I noticed the crappy data speed and also have suffered the network not available errors.
I have a rooted Droid X as a personal phone and I absolutely LOVE it. I travel for business and pleasure and when I do I usually take both my work phone and personal phone and I consistently see I get a stronger and better signal from my Verizon Droid X phone. Even when I had the (AT&T) iPhone 4 (3G) I saw the weak signal and slow speeds.
Anyway, back to the topic of this thread. Yes, you're not alone. This Atrix is pretty disappointing being a "4G" phone and all. Last night while at home I tried watching videos from several sources on this Atrix. Fox Television, Hulu Plus, and Crackle all complained about "a network error" and would take forever to load a video if it didn't error out first and then it was really poor quality complared to what I experience on my old 3G Verizon Droid X. If that wasn't bad enough I even got the network errors popup when I would move around in the Market looking at apps and such.
I am planning on upgrading my personal phone to the Droid Bionic when it is released next month but alas that phone is not "global ready" so I will see what I can do with this Atrix once I get root on it just so I can have a "world phone" as a backup.
Atrix 4G HSDPA+ speeds
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I'm currently just outside of Princeton, NJ... running the speedtest.net application:
H+ data, 4-5 bars connectivity
Ping: 99ms
Download: 53kbps (yes, k)
Upload: 90kpbs
I regularly measure in the 50-80kbps speeds.
When I got my Atrix, I figured HSDPA+ would be faster.....
(yes, I made sure nothing else was using CPU or the data connection - I run this test regularly).
Admittedly, in other areas I've seen as high as 1 Mbps, but it's consistently bad in this area, even given an apparently strong signal.
I do not share your frustrations. I am on Bell in Canada and average 2 mbps down / 1 mbps up. That's blazing fast for Canada in my books!
Maybe flashing up the latest radio by kenneth (in dev section) may be of some help.
djeuch said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I'm currently just outside of Princeton, NJ... running the speedtest.net application:
H+ data, 4-5 bars connectivity
Ping: 99ms
Download: 53kbps (yes, k)
Upload: 90kpbs
I regularly measure in the 50-80kbps speeds.
When I got my Atrix, I figured HSDPA+ would be faster.....
(yes, I made sure nothing else was using CPU or the data connection - I run this test regularly).
Admittedly, in other areas I've seen as high as 1 Mbps, but it's consistently bad in this area, even given an apparently strong signal.
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Huh???
Look in your settings/about phone and post what network type and radio version you have on there. You should certainly be on HSPA+ now with the rest of the US and probably world.
Is it the phone or the network? Just asking since I have both an AT&T phone and a Verizon phone and have noticed network and download speed issues and am really disappointed with my Atrix.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/06/the-four-gees-comparison-which-carrier-should-you-be-looking-to-for-your-4g-android-phone/
sjmoreno said:
Is it the phone or the network? Just asking since I have both an AT&T phone and a Verizon phone and have noticed network and download speed issues and am really disappointed with my Atrix.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/06/the-four-gees-comparison-which-carrier-should-you-be-looking-to-for-your-4g-android-phone/
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The network severely limits non-iphones. Same deal with HTC Inspire, Samsung Infuse, etc. I can usually hit 3-4 MB/s down, 1.5 MB/s up. That's not 4G. It's not the Atrix causing this.

Samsung Epic wifi help...

I had ATT for 5 years, last phones on our acct where the Samsung captivate & iPhone 3gs. Went to Sprint, got tired of not having unlimited data and wanted to stream media, they had a promo if we ported our lines they gave us a service credit (paid our ETF from ATT), and bought back our ATT phones for $120. Not a bad deal. At first just casually used the phones, wifi at home, and 3g/4g away from home. 4g is good if your outside in a good service area, avg speed tests 1-4mb, 3g, forget it. Their 3g seemed slower than ATT edge on a bad day.
I moved my "work from home" office upstairs in my house, and my wireless point is downstairs opposite side of the house. I'm had horrible wifi usage on my Samsung Epic phone, i used wifi analyzer and get about -75db, and my mac book pro gets about -69db. i would think that would be fine since my mac book still shows all its bars and i can get on the internet and it works fine. Speed test with my mac book shows 11.66 down/ 1.47 up and ping < 100ms; which is what i pay from my ISP. when i do the speed test on the Epic, i get less than 1mb down and less than 1mb up and pings over 100ms.
i tried a spare router i had in my closet, cisco 4 port and G router and placed it upstairs. Placed in bridge mode and it worked a little better upstairs. When i had my epic phone about 5 feet from it, i only had 2 bars. huh? i can walk all over downstairs with my uverse RG in my master bedroom closet and get all 3 bars, but when i go to my office, i barely get one bar and crap speeds.
i was thinking of re-locating my uverse rg access point upstairs and since i have a 110 patch panel downstairs, it would take me less than 10 minutes to re-locate, then i got to thinking, when i had my captivate & iphone, i never had a problem in my office with wifi.
what should i do here? i like to use my phone in my office when i'm working to kill some time, and since sprints 3g coverage is completely horrible, i'll use my wifi, but since somehow the wifi radio in that phone is complete crap. For the hell of it, i found a copy of 2.3.4 gingerbread and used odin to get the fw on my phone; but actually i received worse wifi speeds (if that makes any sense), so i rolled back to Froyo. I'm 2 seconds from throwing out 2 Samsung Epic phones on my account out the window and going back to ATT. I did a speed test on a Atrix phone at a electronics store and it received HSPA+ and it got about 4mb down; whereas my Epic got less than 1 with Sprint in the same location.
At first i would sacrifice slower 3g speeds from sprint, but when it doesnt even work half the time, 4g seems to only work outside at speeds of ATT 3g w/o HSPA+. so pretty much that unlimited data is they advertise is crap and i feel if i call in to complain, all they will tell me to do is update my PRL, fw and software and maybe submit a incident tkt for my slow speeds, but i know that wont correct it. With their current stand of possibly going to Light Squared for LTE from Clear Wi-max, that will maybe solve their 4g coverage in the distant future, but still stuck with sub-par 3g...

Verizon Fios wifi download speeds

Hey guys, I have fios with 50/25 mbps I can get around 40 with my laptop but my note is getting low teens. I switched from a wep security to wpa2 security whichever increased my wifi on my laptop but not on my phones (note 2 and ssg3).
Any ideas how to increase this? Am I missing a setting when connecting to wifi? At the moment, my 4g is faster than my wifi.
Upload speeds are fine... Actually higher than my download speeds. Seems like something is restricting my download speed.
Thanks in advance.
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koreankabachy said:
Hey guys, I have fios with 50/25 mbps I can get around 40 with my laptop but my note is getting low teens. I switched from a wep security to wpa2 security whichever increased my wifi on my laptop but not on my phones (note 2 and ssg3).
Any ideas how to increase this? Am I missing a setting when connecting to wifi? At the moment, my 4g is faster than my wifi.
Upload speeds are fine... Actually higher than my download speeds. Seems like something is restricting my download speed.
Thanks in advance.
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I have FiOS as well and encounter the same "problem...". My chrombook gets above 40 Mbps and my Note 2 gets around 18-25 even standing next to my router...I just think its the way it is to be honest...I really don't know but just wanted to share that I'm seeing the same thing here...it really doesn't inhibit my experience at all 18-25 Mbps is perfectly fine for cell phone downloads etc.
JamesPumaEnjoi said:
I have FiOS as well and encounter the same "problem...". My chrombook gets above 40 Mbps and my Note 2 gets around 18-25 even standing next to my router...I just think its the way it is to be honest...I really don't know but just wanted to share that I'm seeing the same thing here...it really doesn't inhibit my experience at all 18-25 Mbps is perfectly fine for cell phone downloads etc.
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Same set up here...with similar results. I did some research on this as my ipad2 (which is now in a drawer thanks to the Note 2 BTW) wasn't getting anywhere near the speed I would have expected despite it supposedly being N compatible (my lenovo laptop gets 45 Mbps down all the time). Best answer I could find is that not all wireless radios are equal and can't handle the same speeds.
I have a 25 download connection on FIOS, and am sitting in my living room about ten feet from my router. I just ran a test on my laptop and phone via speedtest.net, and got 24/5 on the laptop and 25/6 on the Note 2. Initially I was going to respond to your post and say I am used to the same result you are seeing, but I just proved myself wrong.
When I'm in other parts of the house however, I do tend to see more of a performance degradation on the phone vs. the laptop...I don't have any exact data at the moment since I'm feeling too lazy to walk upstairs and repeat the test, but I do know the falloff happens more rapidly on the phone with distance from the router.
This is what I get on my Comcast 50/15 connection.
Desktop hardwired: 59Mbps down / 12Mbps up
Desktop wireless: 55Mbps down / 12Mbps up
Note 2: 40Mbps down / 16Mbps up
My desktop on wireless connects at 144Mbps, while my Note 2 only connects at 72Mbps. Both are within 4' of the router. Both using the same SpeedTest.net server.
I've noticed a huge difference in WiFi speeds between the different radios, the one that had given me the best spotted on WiFi is VRAMC3. The one that gives me the best speed on LTE is L4. The speed definitely differs from which radio you flash, that's why I wish Samsung would give our devs access to their radio tools and let us build our own. I guarantee if they did we wouldn't see this kind of crap.
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WiFi Low transfer speed over LAN KitKat 4.4.2

Hello,
I have posed this problem on the S4 section, but I got no answer, and it looks to be a global Android KitKat issue...
I have a Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 with the newest firmware from Samsung I9505XXUGNF1 (Kitkat 4.4.2) rooted with TowelRoot. My router is a Asus RT-AC66U to which the S4 connects with max speed of 433 Mbps. My internet connection is 120 Mbps.
When I do a speedtest on the S4 I get results of ~120 Mbps. When I download a file over the internet I get full download speeds ~8 MB/s, but when I'm downloading a file over LAN from the disk connected directly to the router I get download speed only of ~20Mbps (2.4 MB/s) which very much sucks!
The same is happening to my Brand new Galaxy Tab S.
It is connecting to the WiFi router with 866Mbps, and files inside the network are download only at ~3 MB/s
My Laptop with Windows 7 have only a N network card, and connects to the router with max 300 Mbps and when I download the same file I get over 7.5 MB/s!! (~65 Mbps).
Speedtest also shows results of over 110 Mbps...
I remember when the phone was new, and it had Android 4.2 (~10 months ago), I had LAN download speeds of over 7-9 MB/s...
I tried with different file managers like X-Plore and others, but it looks like it is not the app problem.
When downloading a file from the laptop, the download speeds get even worst!... less than 1 MB/s!
I have enabled Location and set on "GPS only" in both, the S4 and Tab S
does somebody have the same issue and know what could be the problem?
fcornejo said:
Hello,
I have posed this problem on the S4 section, but I got no answer, and it looks to be a global Android KitKat issue...
I have a Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 with the newest firmware from Samsung I9505XXUGNF1 (Kitkat 4.4.2) rooted with TowelRoot. My router is a Asus RT-AC66U to which the S4 connects with max speed of 433 Mbps. My internet connection is 120 Mbps.
When I do a speedtest on the S4 I get results of ~120 Mbps. When I download a file over the internet I get full download speeds ~8 MB/s, but when I'm downloading a file over LAN from the disk connected directly to the router I get download speed only of ~20Mbps (2.4 MB/s) which very much sucks!
The same is happening to my Brand new Galaxy Tab S.
It is connecting to the WiFi router with 866Mbps, and files inside the network are download only at ~3 MB/s
My Laptop with Windows 7 have only a N network card, and connects to the router with max 300 Mbps and when I download the same file I get over 7.5 MB/s!! (~65 Mbps).
Speedtest also shows results of over 110 Mbps...
I remember when the phone was new, and it had Android 4.2 (~10 months ago), I had LAN download speeds of over 7-9 MB/s...
I tried with different file managers like X-Plore and others, but it looks like it is not the app problem.
When downloading a file from the laptop, the download speeds get even worst!... less than 1 MB/s!
I have enabled Location and set on "GPS only" in both, the S4 and Tab S
does somebody have the same issue and know what could be the problem?
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The problem is now solved by installing newest version of X-Plore v 3.66 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore
LAN download speeds went from ~2.5 MB/S to ~14 MB/s (I think that the limit is now the Hard Drive plugged to a USB 2.0 port on the router)
Thank you Lonely Cat Games for solving this issue!!

LG Gpad X 8.0 connection speeds garbage

I've got a T-mobile LG G Pad X 8.0 that I just did a factory reset on and updated to Android 7.0. The connection speed is atrocious now. I'm getting no higher than .60mbps download speed on LTE, 4g, LTE Hotspot from my note 8 (which is reading over 30mbps), or home WiFi (around 4mbps normally). No matter which I try, I get between .2 and .6mbps. I've done all of the updates available... Slowly.... I've checked the apn (fast.t-mobile.com). Im totally stumped, and it makes this device practically useless.

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