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Internet initial slow speed

When I use the default browser, there is always an initial pause before the browser loads the site I have requested. Is there anyway to stop this from happening?
The pause can take up to 10-15secounds before it decides to load the site and its very annoying.

I´ve also this problem.
Fix?

Is this on Wi-fi or 3g? Or both

I've had a similar experience in the past while using 2g/3g. Concluded the DNS servers used by some mobile networks are very slow resulting what you are seeing.
It may be posible to specifiy an alternative DNS server to speed it up??

Both 2/3 g and wifi..
Any solution for this?
Thanks

If its wi-fi and 3g it wont be a dns problem, you tried clearing
some cache maybe??
Just a guess at a fix,
or try using a different browser?

Already tried both solutions... thanks anyway..
Anything else?

Which rom you using?
t-mobile, orange, or stock?

Its odd, mine sometimes does this. Mines sim free on a stock rom. Does it on orange or o2. Does it on different browsers too. It gives me the first few millimetres of render across the top bar then occasionally it just sticks for maybe 15 seconds. But it always does it at that first bit of loading the page. Most of the time it just moves like **** of a shovel from start to finish. Its not just on the very first connection either. You would possibly expect that first render to not be as snappy but theres no reason as to when it happens. Nothing major just something slightly annoying.

I also see this, WiFi and 3G.
Been using Opera mini 5 beta, the last two days, it is lot better/faster that the standard browser.
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Ok.. i´ve just solved this problem regarding 3g browsing* but wifi browsing remains.
Any comments?
*Open the Phone dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#* (note the symbols are backwards)
Tap on Phone Information
Scroll Down and set your Preferred Network Type to GSM auto (PRL) - NOTE this does not disable 3G or HSDPA! Speed tests still show I am receiving speeds up to 2.4mbps - NOTE there will still be the 3G and H icons in your status bar
This has fixed the connection dropout issue for me, please let me know if this hasn't helped for someone else.

Have just tried this and things do seem to load faster. Why would it have been set to WCDMA as defualt do you think?

macuser said:
Ok.. i´ve just solved this problem regarding 3g browsing* but wifi browsing remains.
Any comments?
*Open the Phone dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#* (note the symbols are backwards)
Tap on Phone Information
Scroll Down and set your Preferred Network Type to GSM auto (PRL) - NOTE this does not disable 3G or HSDPA! Speed tests still show I am receiving speeds up to 2.4mbps - NOTE there will still be the 3G and H icons in your status bar
This has fixed the connection dropout issue for me, please let me know if this hasn't helped for someone else.
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Hmmmmm didn't cgreg 92 originally post this? Cut and paste is great and all but credit where credits due! Anyway ive done this already, thanks to cgreg92. But the occasional delay still happens on all connections. Its not regular, just an occasional pain. A fix would be good?

True... copy and paste... but didn´t assume credits..just pointed to a parcial solution to my problem.. now that i´ve cleared that... any solutions out there to slow wifi (with strong signal)?

macuser said:
True... copy and paste... but didn´t assume credits..just pointed to a parcial solution to my problem.. now that i´ve cleared that... any solutions out there to slow wifi (with strong signal)?
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This is a partial solution. It certainly calmed down my internet connection by 90 odd percent. But this slow occasional, sticking still exists on all connections. Interestingly, my internet connection now sticks about as often as it use to crash out. Its almost as if this method somehow forces the connection through. But like I say, it does occasionally still get stuck. I done this trick weeks ago now, and its still there, just alot better.

WiFi poor

I'je just unpacked my desire yesterday.
When i am straight "connected" to the AP, i have full wifi
20cm makes it to ok
1 meter makes it to poor
next room no Wifi
My Hero has good Wifi even next floor and poor outside the building
How can I improve that?

I have pretty much the same problem, very poor wifi access unless I am sat next to my router.
considering adding another wifi router to my home network to solve this issue

I got the opposite ... My HTC Desire has very good wifi access.
Even when I am in my bed room at 1st floor where it can only got 1-2 wifi signal, it is still damn fast. Also no problem in the 2nd floor although the signal indicater is just 1.
The wifi router is located in the ground floor.
When I used my old HTC Kaiser, there is no way I can access wifi from there.
Now, I got wifi all over
So, I think, it could be the way you configure your wifi router. Here are some pointers:
- Set to "g" ONLY
- Set to use non-crowded wifi channel
I set my wifi channel to 6, which it is not being used by neighbors wifis.
There is also an application in the market called "Wifi Analyzer":
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.farproc.wifi.analyzer/
It is free and it is damn good for showing your wifi signal strength and channels etc.
Install that and let us know your situation.

Installed WifiAnalyzer
In my office building (which has plenty WiFis) i only sometimes see our Wifi which as a 7dBI antenna. but this shows with "half -90dbm"
our Linksys Wag160N has -40 when Desire touches the AP and -60 when 1 meter away
How can I set "g only" on my desire?

HTC sais I have to
- have a small distance between AP and Desire
- Check the "angle and how I have it in my hands" between AP and Desire
-enable WiFi
--> I gonna change the phone

The "g" only is setting in your wifi router, not desire.
I am now in the attic and my wifi signal is not that good.
When the signal is -90, I got about 500 kbps (using SpeedTest app), not quite usable, sometimes the connection was dropped.
When the signal is -80, I got about 2000 kbps ... usable
Those are examples on the worst condition at my place and my HTC Desire.
sirride said:
Installed WifiAnalyzer
In my office building (which has plenty WiFis) i only sometimes see our Wifi which as a 7dBI antenna. but this shows with "half -90dbm"
our Linksys Wag160N has -40 when Desire touches the AP and -60 when 1 meter away
How can I set "g only" on my desire?
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I've had my phone conected to my WiFi while I was in my car on the drive which is 15 metres away.

yep same prob here if in same room of router sinal fine, if i move out of the room and about meters away then i almost loose it will try the HD, but im sure it was the SPV m3100 i could get my wifi out in my street,
Why is the desire wifi so poor ??
its a great phone, but it seems to be going from Desire to Dire

i went to the shop where I bouhgt the desire and they were changing it.
Now I have good WiFi again

The Wifi signal is fantastic, its stronger and faster than any of my other devices connected to my Netgear DG834g (custom)
@pickie, it sounds like you need to replace ur handset

Wifi connection loss an reconect
Hi there,
i have also a problem with my wifi connection. The connection to the router works fine, but every 3 or 6 seconds the connection is lost and the phone reconnects. One to 4 pings to my HTC Desire are lost, then 7 to 10 pings work fine, and again some pings ar lost. Its somhow a bouncing conanection.
I´ve testet the app wifi analyzer and i can´t see any problem - connection strength is around -36 to -40 dbm, so what could it be?
I am using a Zyxel nbg460n, the connection to my notebook just works fine...
I hope, anyone has any idea

The Wifi signal is fantastic, its stronger and faster than any of my other devices connected to my Netgear DG834g (custom)
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Same here for everything you said. -60dBm on 2nd floor right now with router on ground about 90m away. The reason why I predominately use WiFi.
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

This guy fixed his wifi issue by changing the router channel:
http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/71133-when-your-desire-wont-connect-home-work-wifi.html

More in general, but I boosted signal quality by switching back to b instead of g.

gogol said:
This guy fixed his wifi issue by changing the router channel:
http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/71133-when-your-desire-wont-connect-home-work-wifi.html
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Yes, i noticed that switching channels improves my pings... but just for a while and just for this time - next day i have the same problem again. switching the channel while my phone is connected helps a bit though - but i guess this can only be a workaround than the solution.
and it does not matter if my phone is in my hand or just lays on the table and the distance to my router doesn´t matter.

Miathan01 said:
Yes, i noticed that switching channels improves my pings... but just for a while and just for this time - next day i have the same problem again. switching the channel while my phone is connected helps a bit though - but i guess this can only be a workaround than the solution.
and it does not matter if my phone is in my hand or just lays on the table and the distance to my router doesn´t matter.
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I have solved my wifi problems by changing the software on router. Went from pfsense to openwrt, and everything works now.

Improving the wireless

can anyone build a kernal that improves the wireless.
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I did something that improved my wifi stability by a huge amount. it doesn't even drop anymore. all I did was to go to the router's settings and modify the "Fragmentation Threshold" and "RTS Threshold" from 2346 bytes to lower values untill my wifi connection was steady. I'm using the almost lowest values allowed. The router now sends smaller but stronger packages more often and it should be better. please tell me if it works!

My wifi connected was droping after 3-4 mins usage. When I am opening wifi I also open bluetooth, now it does not drop.

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I did something that improved my wifi stability by a huge amount. it doesn't even drop anymore. all I did was to go to the router's settings and modify the "Fragmentation Threshold" and "RTS Threshold" from 2346 bytes to lower values untill my wifi connection was steady. I'm using the almost lowest values allowed. The router now sends smaller but stronger packages more often and it should be better. please tell me if it works!
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Sorry I'm a noob here so pardon me. How do you access the 'router settings' in the phone and how do you determine what are the 'lowest' values that I should set? Thanks!

LOL! @goldenstarlz93. Not from your phone. sbr999 was talking about if you have a wireless router set up at home. If so, log in from your home computer and access the router's homepage using your web browser. (It should be something like this http://192.168.1.1/ ; although it could be different for your router).

Mobile speedtest

I've got the speedtest.net broadband app on my SGS2. When I had my 10mb virgin media connection on my PC, I was getting 9.5mb wi-fi download speed on the phone's speedtest app when the phone is right next to my PC. VM have now switched me over to 60mb on my PC and the phone is now giving me 15.9mb wi-fi with speedtest. Is that the maximum the phone can do via wi-fi or should it be capable of closer to 60mb? Or am I meant to switch off wi-fi and go to wi-fi direct?

I've had close to 40 on mine are you using their superhub by anychance?

Juan Kerzhoff said:
I've had close to 40 on mine are you using their superhub by anychance?
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Hi matey, yes I am, it was just installed this morning. Took a while for my 10mb speed to actually switchover to 60mb.
Are you using normal wi-fi or wi-fi direct?

Lots of problems with those superhubs squire.. it's recommended if possible to set it up in modem mode and use your own router. Im just on normal wifi at the moment nothing special hub is on modem mode got my router set up pretty standard after much research on the virgin forums mind! It's worth having a look there for configurations but beware there is hundreds of posters complaining Also i did notice that various s2 modems determine the speed of your broadband through your wifi and i use the kh3 as i find it the quickest of all the ones i've tested.

Juan Kerzhoff said:
Lots of problems with those superhubs squire.. it's recommended if possible to set it up in modem mode and use your own router. Im just on normal wifi at the moment nothing special hub is on modem mode got my router set up pretty standard after much research on the virgin forums mind! It's worth having a look there for configurations but beware there is hundreds of posters complaining Also i did notice that various s2 modems determine the speed of your broadband through your wifi and i use the kh3 as i find it the quickest of all the ones i've tested.
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Hmm, interesting. How do I switch it to modem mode? I can setup my router again like I did with my previous VM cable modem and use the wi-fi from my own router if the superhub wi-fi is not up to the job. Having said that, I just did some wi-fi speed tests between my PC and laptop. Downloads speeds vary between 49 and 60mb, and one site reported my upload speed, but all the others couldn't read the upload speed.
What is the kh3 exactly?

Wow. In my country, 10Mbps is only by fibre... Average 3g connection is only 2Mbps
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Apologies for late reply squire. If your speedtests are reporting good speeds at your laptop then your hub sounds like its working ok so good news there However if you wanted to boot into modem mode you can access the hub by typing http://192.168.0.1 into your ie search bar and logging in with the standard username - admin and pass wich is set at -changeme these can be changed from within.. once switched to modem mode the address changes to http://192.168.0.100.
The KH3 is a modem for the S2 which seems to work very well for me you can read a bit more about it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1656005 page 3 has a direct download. It is worth trying a few different ones though as whats great for one maybe not so for another! Hope this helps.

Thanks Juan, great info. Yes, download speeds to laptop are great, but all but one of the speed test sites are not able to report my upload speed. They report them fine on my desktop though, and that's connected via ethernet cable. I suppose it might be the superhub or possibly my laptop causing the error. But anyway, since this a phone forum, I'm probably going too much off topic.

wifi and call issues anybody else have these ?

anybody else notice that the wifi on our a50's connect with only a single beam which means it will have half the link speeds a router usually is capable of in my case it's 72Mbps and 150Mbps on the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands respectively.
additionally the throughput of the wifi is much lower than my other devices. I do have 100Mbps+ broadband connection and from the a50 I can only strain as much as 50-70Mbps at any given time even over 5Ghz wifi.
on the other hand my note 5 and another cheap lenovo phone I've connects to the same subject network at home with full 150Mbps and 300Mbps and maxing out the throughput if I do a speed test.
I'm not sure if this is a hardware limitation or a firmware / kernel issue. but it's some what disappointing.
also anybody else notice the phone app being sluggish ? apart from the overall lag on the app one thing that bothers me most is whenever I receive a call the screen takes about 3-4 seconds to turn on so I hear the phone ringing but I've no idea who is calling and I would have to wait.
the design of the app on the call screen is rather not easy to use I still can't figure out for the life of me while ur receiving a call it goes to full screen and no way to actually ignore it and jump to another app.
please share your experience regarding these and any possible workarounds or fix.
Regards,

Yep the Phone App needs an immediate workout. The App UI is super laggy for both the incoming and outgoing calls. Both the times, the dialer UI is super late to respond. However, i have no complaints wrt to Wifi. I get full 95mbps UL/DL on 5Ghz and 75mbps on 2.4Ghz with my 100mbps connection. Its more of a Router thing.

My phone connect only at 72Mbps when I have 300Mbps N/ac router. Real internet connection is around 40-50 MB/s. This is only in 2,4Ghz. At 5Ghz is more then 200 Mbps.
There's is any way to increase 2,4Ghz speed ?

Bump.
Recently the phone app freezes for 20-30 seconds after I dial a number. This is an issue as sooner numbers are waiting for further number presses to navigate a menu and sometimes the lag is so bad that the menu times out before the app actually can respond to number pad entries.
Hanging up consistently consistently takes 20s during which time the phone is entirely unresponsive.

Update: have removed phone privileges from a while bunch of apps and deleted a few. But I think the thing that made the difference was disabling the pre-installed Facebook app. Phone is working as usual now.