Hello everyone I'm hoping to get some help I have an LG v30 but I purchased a few months ago it is the unlocked version from B&H Photo I use it on the Verizon network I use the hotspot daily. Here is my question for you all what is the range of the hotspot my phone has to be within 10 feet of my smart TV or any device that I am trying to let them use my Wi-Fi is this the average distance or what am I doing wrong my previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S5 useing foxfi I could take my phone outside and go about half a block away and the TV would still have the connection now I can barely leave the room with my LG v30 without it spooling can anyone help me if there is a setting to make the signal stronger in the developer settings or something?
So just gave this a try using my V30 (H932) and WiFi Analyzer on a LG G6. Within 5 ft, the signal strength was -45db. At 30ft, unobstructed, it was -70db. Still usable but getting on that edge of dropping connections. I would guess that phone designers have limited the distance for a hot spot more for security and power reasons than prior generations of phones.
One thing you can check is under Settings->Tethering->Configure Mobile HotSpot you can change the broadcast channels. If you going for distance, stick with 2.4GHz only as it will have better range. You should also check to see what channels are being heavily used in your area using a tool like WiFi Analyzer and manually pick a different channel so nobody else is stepping on your signal.
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Is there a method or an app that can automatically handle wifi switching between access points based on signal stregth.. like how an iOS device natively jumps to another AP if the signal strength is pretty low on the currently connected one.
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Is there a method or an app that can automatically handle wifi switching between access points based on signal stregth.. like how an iOS device natively jumps to another AP if the signal strength is pretty low on the currently connected one.
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I would love this to happen, I have 2 APs in my house & both my Galaxy S2 & EeePad refuse to pick up the best AP when I move about often resulting in my losing the signal.
Surely this is pretty straight forward & would benefit most Android users ?
Anyway, if anyone has an answer or can develop a simple solution I would be interested.
I'm having the same issue. I have 3 floors at my house, with cement between each floor so the wifi signal degrades quite a bit between floors. I have now setup 3 APs at my house (one for each floor) and I have to turn my wifi off and then back on the Galaxy S2 to get it to connect to the strongest AP - really annoying that Android doesn't do wireless AP switching...
Anyone have a solution for this yet?
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...
I have one wireless router in my office (Linksys WRT54G) and another wireless router in my living room on the other side of the house (Linksys E1000)
Both are flashed with DD-WRT firmware. I have them setup to allow free roaming across/between the two.
Just about every wireless device I have will roam freely between the two routers except my Transformer Prime. I can be connected to the office wireless and have a great signal, walk to the other side of the house where the office signal drops off and pick up a much stronger signal off of the living room wireless but it will not drop the office connection and switch to the stronger signal in the living room.
I know the setup is correct because my Nexus S, Evo, wifes Evo Shift and iPad2 all will roam freely. Is there anyway to force the Prime to drop the weaker signal and switch to the stronger one? Thanks!
in ICS on my phone, there is a wifi option to avoid networks with weak signals. Presumably this is done by MAC and not SSID...but it's moot as ICS on the prime does not seem to have this option.
I had a similar setup, though most of the devices in my house are stationary, so i ended up reconfiguring to an Upstairs/downstairs SSID until i can invest in a more powerful router.
edit: like one of these! http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/09/amped-wireless-2012-lineup/
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Hopefully this will get sorted with some new wifi drivers, or maybe after some devs start cooking up custom roms..
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I have one wireless router in my office (Linksys WRT54G) and another wireless router in my living room on the other side of the house (Linksys E1000)
Both are flashed with DD-WRT firmware. I have them setup to allow free roaming across/between the two.
Just about every wireless device I have will roam freely between the two routers except my Transformer Prime. I can be connected to the office wireless and have a great signal, walk to the other side of the house where the office signal drops off and pick up a much stronger signal off of the living room wireless but it will not drop the office connection and switch to the stronger signal in the living room.
I know the setup is correct because my Nexus S, Evo, wifes Evo Shift and iPad2 all will roam freely. Is there anyway to force the Prime to drop the weaker signal and switch to the stronger one? Thanks!
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Did you ever get a solution to your roaming issue? I'm having the same troubles with my TF201. It refuses to switch to the higher signal access point even if I'm standing right beside it. The only way to switch is turning WIFI radio signal off the first access point when I go to the other side of the house. My Apply iPod seems to make the switch automatically.
Cheers.
P.S. I found a thread that discusses this issue at length and an app that appears to correct the issue
1) Thread: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12649
2) App: http://android.googlecode.com/issues/attachment?aid=126490082000&name=MKermaniWiFiScanner-2.apk&token=Zwkr6Bx0HBP1XV4ZYFKiTAapeX8%3A1340206114901
I updated my post above with link to a thread that discusses the issue at length. It appears to be Android OS in general; specifically, ASUS and Samsung products.
I installed MKermaniWiFiScanner-2.apk posted above and it seems to work fine. The only complaint I submit to the developer was to remove the notifications every time the wifi scans for a different signal.
I called ASUS to inform them of the problem.
Anyone else having the same issue?
I've been owning many Android phones, but there are always issues with them in one form or another. Some phones that I have recently:
- Galaxy A5 2017: tend to stick to a wifi SSID well, but catch is if I have a mesh setup, it tends to get stuck to one beacon (need to turn off and on wifi for the handset to connect to the nearest beacon). Cellular signals are okay, but initiating calls can take a while (sometimes more than just a few seconds).
- Xiaomi Mi A1: Weird wifi connectivity. Often times it shows full bars, but apps are timing out as if there's no connection (actual internet works fine on other devices)
Any recommendation of a good mid-range handset with actual reliable wireless connectivity? Or any handsets to avoid? I mean a smartphone is still a phone.
And I don't want to spend more than $400. I mean reliable wireless connectivity should be a standard even on a low end phone, and one should not have to spend $1k just to get a phone that have reliable wireless.
My LG V40 Thinq works very well in almost every situation. But it has a ghost
All of a sudden, while just walking around the house carrying the phone, the Verizon Woman speaks out clearly and says "Verizon" and then the phone goes silent again. I spent a few hours on the phone with VZ, they had me remove a few apps, but nothing has changed.
I have FIOS which is wired to an Orbi router in AP mode. Additionally, I have two Orbi satellites. I've set up a Bxxx network and a guest network on the FIOS router and on the Orbi. The satellites have access to the same networks. Actually I end up with Bxxx 2.4 and Bxxx 5Ghz. AND I have guest 2.4 and 5Ghz.
I live in an apartment building in NYC in which there are about 90 active routers - no way to find a nice "empty" channel. It was built in 1903 and the walls are unbelievably thick. This is why I need both the router and the satellites.
I think I've isolated the circumstances under which the "Verizon" voice speaks. When I'm moving around, or even when I go from one room to another, the phone may find a stronger signal and switch networks. So in one room it is on guest 5 Ghz. I go to another room, the phone announces Verizon, and when I check the network connection it has moved to guest 2.4 or Bxxx 2.4. During this switch I maintain a connection on a call and wouldn't know anything happened if Verizon didn't announce herself.
It is possible that switching connections has to do with an effort to level the load. One end of the house has many more connected devices than the other end.
Can anyone tell me how to turn off the interupting Verizon Ghost Voice which seems to be notifying me of something...? I'm receiving very few notifications but still haven't been able to track it down.