Not sure what is happening, but as soon as I switch on wifi, then I lose all data connection, email, weather, internet etc
Could I have inadvertently changed a setting somewhere? this only seems to be happening for the last few days.
Apk1 said:
Not sure what is happening, but as soon as I switch on wifi, then I lose all data connection, email, weather, internet etc
Could I have inadvertently changed a setting somewhere? this only seems to be happening for the last few days.
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mine does that when im tethered via wifi...to get around that, i tether via usb...
This oes it when not tethered.
Yeah, I get this too but only when the wifi signal's weak. I live in a big old house with really thick walls. I already have 2 routers putting out the same ssid but in the bedroom it's pretty much a no go.
By weak I mean it says it's getting 1-5meg down and 1 up. It just stops the phone getting any data at all. Don't know if that's the same for you. Is it like that when stood in the same room as your router ?
Router is about 3 ft away!
try this
Apk1 said:
Router is about 3 ft away!
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Start, settings, connections, wifi, wireless networks, network adapters tab and make sure the "my network card connects to..." dropdown box says "The Internet" Hope that helps
Thanks Luke, I think that has sorted it, I knew it would be something obvious, but didn't know what.
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My wifi if being finicky, like not wanting to connect, or even see my home router, is anyone else having any trouble with wifi?
it must be your router.
Rennat said:
it must be your router.
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that's what i figured, i just thought i'd ask around
Rennat said:
it must be your router.
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no problems here...
I was running it with the following:
SSID broadcast off
WPA2 Personal
Mac filtering
I turned SSID broadcast back on and it works fine now, someone else want to replicate those settings and see if they have problems?
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My wifi if being finicky, like not wanting to connect, or even see my home router, is anyone else having any trouble with wifi?
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I am having problems connecting to my wireless router, my Evo is saying I have a "poor signal" at my computer desk but my computer is showing me at 100% signal. I think its a Evo software thing but thats my 2 cents. I don't use my wifi often with my phone any way so no biggie for now.
I also have ssid broadcast off and I cant get it working.
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Hi everybody, So far I love the EVO even without 4g. Anyway after I turned on my ssid I connected okay. I can see the market and find what I want to download. It says downloading but never does. I have downloaded apps with the 3g but I don't have a signal at my home. I always used winmo before and had no problems downloading on my home network. I wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to what I might be missing. I got root okay and have been having a blast but I sure would like to download some more apps while I am at home. Thanks, Rick
SSID broadcast off and no issues for me thus far.
Yes, me too. Sort of.
My Evo shows 1 bar of wifi signal strength at a distance of 8 feet from the router where my iphone shows full bars. I do get decent download speeds using xspeedlabs free but the upload speed seems to cap at 750kbs where the iphone goes over 1mbs with the same test. There is definitely something weird going on.
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My Evo shows 1 bar of wifi signal strength at a distance of 8 feet from the router where my iphone shows full bars. I do get decent download speeds using xspeedlabs free but the upload speed seems to cap at 750kbs where the iphone goes over 1mbs with the same test. There is definitely something weird going on.
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I am having similar results as far as signal strength. Sitting 2 feet away from my router I am only showing one bar of signal strength and getting very slow speeds. All of my other wifi devices (including those that are on the opposite side of the house and downstairs) are getting signals ranging from "good" to "excellent". Something definitely seems to be up with the wifi.....
mrono said:
My wifi if being finicky, like not wanting to connect, or even see my home router, is anyone else having any trouble with wifi?
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I was having wifi issues too. I'm running dd-wrt on my router. Turns out just power cycling the router fixed it. I think I'm going to setup my router to reset weekly.
I get the same issue of having 1 bar of signal strength, regardless of how close I am... even tried on 2 different wireless routers, Linksys-dual band N, and Net gear A/B/G.
I get strong signal from both routers on all other devices, iPhone, iTouch, Touch Pro, Laptops, etc...
I've played with all the settings on the EVO, turning off the mobile data and only having wifi on, changing the encryption settings on the routers... nothing seems to work.
I love the phone, but kinda bummed about this issue.
I have ssid broadcasting turned off and I'm using WPA 2 with no problems.
There is a long, angry thread about this over at HTC's own EVO forum: http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/94/t/2929.aspx
I'm also getting less Wi-Fi performance on the EVO than on other devices in the house.
Using Fresh 1.0.1 rom and also the new Cyanogen rom, with the SSID off, I cannot connect with WiFi, with SSID on, it works fine. Using Cisco/Linksys e2000 router.
Tested with my iPhone with SSID off, it connects no problem. So the problem is not my router.
Is this limitation of EVO?
Is there any way to prevent your data connection from being lost when a secured Wifi network is within range. I don't understand why the phone gives a secured wifi network preference over your carriers network... effectively preventing any data connection until you turn off wifi.
Just one example of this annoying problem came when I was navigating to a job location and a road was closed. GPS could not reroute me because I was in a residential neighborhood picking up lots of wifi networks. All the them were secured. So... in order to reroute I had to toggle off my wifi so that my phone would go back to connecting through my carrier.
Why do phones do this? Until your device obtains an IP address from the wifi hotspot it should not bypass the carriers data connection. Is there any way around this that doesn't require constantly turning wifi on and off?
Many thanks...
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Is there any way to prevent your data connection from being lost when a secured Wifi network is within range. I don't understand why the phone gives a secured wifi network preference over your carriers network... effectively preventing any data connection until you turn off wifi.
Just one example of this annoying problem came when I was navigating to a job location and a road was closed. GPS could not reroute me because I was in a residential neighborhood picking up lots of wifi networks. All the them were secured. So... in order to reroute I had to toggle off my wifi so that my phone would go back to connecting through my carrier.
Why do phones do this? Until your device obtains an IP address from the wifi hotspot it should not bypass the carriers data connection. Is there any way around this that doesn't require constantly turning wifi on and off?
Many thanks...
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Never had this problem.... My GS3 has always ignored secured and unsecured wifi networks unless I specifically request to connect to them. The only thing I can think is that its trying to connect to the same SSID that you're using at home like "netgear" or something. If that's the case, shame on you for not changing your default SSID at home.
If not, what setup are you on? Stock/rom/kernel etc.
My SSID does not match anything out there. It happens all the time. When I go to my kids favorite park my phone tries to connect to a cablevison hotspot. When I open an app like Facebook or tapatalk it just hangs. If I open a web browser I get redirected to one of those sign in pages. As soon as I turn off wifi I go back to 4G and browse as normal.
This happens on every phone I've ever owned including my wife's phone, parents phones and brothers phone. I just figured it was something everyone dealt with.... Was hoping for a work around.
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My SSID does not match anything out there. It happens all the time. When I go to my kids favorite park my phone tries to connect to a cablevison hotspot. When I open an app like Facebook or tapatalk it just hangs. If I open a web browser I get redirected to one of those sign in pages. As soon as I turn off wifi I go back to 4G and browse as normal.
This happens on every phone I've ever owned including my wife's phone, parents phones and brothers phone. I just figured it was something everyone dealt with.... Was hoping for a work around.
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doesn't happen on my phone.
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doesn't happen on my phone.
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my telus s3 does this too very annoying having to turn off the wifi to use carries data
Thank you. Starting to think I was the only one
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I've been suffering through bad wifi connections for so long I don't know if I can stand it anymore. I have my own wifi router and 2 neighbors' all set up on my phone and I spend time in all 3 houses. My phone is pretty much NEVER connected to the right access point and I can't use internet without backing out of what I'm doing and changing connections manually. There has to be a better way.
When I get home and pull in to the garage, it connects to my neighbor's router, deezmms. When I walk in to the house, it stays connected, 1 bar, but I can't do anything until I connect to my own. If I stay in the garage, it will eventually connect to the other neighbor, sparkx, again with 1 bar and a terrible connection to the internet. After connecting to my own, if I go to either neighbors I'm still stuck on my wifi, 1 bar, no internet. And it will NEVER connect to another until I'm COMPLETELY out of range of the the first.
I tried a few apps that didn't do anything at all. I've tried different settings in the advanced wifi settings that didn't help and in some cases gave me bigger problems. I had Tasker set up to turn my wifi off when I was in the car, which got me in to the house and connected to my own wifi in at least that one circumstance but raised a bunch of other headaches (losing connection to Gopro when I start the car at races, among others).
What can I do? I'm at my wits' end here.
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I've been suffering through bad wifi connections for so long I don't know if I can stand it anymore. I have my own wifi router and 2 neighbors' all set up on my phone and I spend time in all 3 houses. My phone is pretty much NEVER connected to the right access point and I can't use internet without backing out of what I'm doing and changing connections manually. There has to be a better way.
When I get home and pull in to the garage, it connects to my neighbor's router, deezmms. When I walk in to the house, it stays connected, 1 bar, but I can't do anything until I connect to my own. If I stay in the garage, it will eventually connect to the other neighbor, sparkx, again with 1 bar and a terrible connection to the internet. After connecting to my own, if I go to either neighbors I'm still stuck on my wifi, 1 bar, no internet. And it will NEVER connect to another until I'm COMPLETELY out of range of the the first.
I tried a few apps that didn't do anything at all. I've tried different settings in the advanced wifi settings that didn't help and in some cases gave me bigger problems. I had Tasker set up to turn my wifi off when I was in the car, which got me in to the house and connected to my own wifi in at least that one circumstance but raised a bunch of other headaches (losing connection to Gopro when I start the car at races, among others).
What can I do? I'm at my wits' end here.
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You could set up Tasker to connect to different wifi networks according to your location, but i guess the GPS battery drainage would become a problem then. And the locations are probably too close for cellular triangulation to work properly.
An easy solution that might work: Set the wifi networks to the same wifi channel. The interference should ensure that they cancel each other out and don't creep into the next house etc. Also make sure the routers are physically so far away from each other as possible.
Just saw this app which might help. I don't have any experience with it though: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goramart.wifijumper&hl=da
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You could set up Tasker to connect to different wifi networks according to your location, but i guess the GPS battery drainage would become a problem then. And the locations are probably too close for cellular triangulation to work properly.
An easy solution that might work: Set the wifi networks to the same wifi channel. The interference should ensure that they cancel each other out and don't creep into the next house etc. Also make sure the routers are physically so far away from each other as possible.
Just saw this app which might help. I don't have any experience with it though: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goramart.wifijumper&hl=da
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I'll try that app.. the houses are all close enough together that GPS probably isn't going to take care of it. I might play with the channels but that sounds like it might end up causing headaches, too.
Also, I did move and upgrade my router and added some big, higher gain antennas. I really think I should be getting better range out of it than I am, but I don't know what else to try.
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I'll try that app.. the houses are all close enough together that GPS probably isn't going to take care of it. I might play with the channels but that sounds like it might end up causing headaches, too.
Also, I did move and upgrade my router and added some big, higher gain antennas. I really think I should be getting better range out of it than I am, but I don't know what else to try.
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this seems more like a problem with the placement of your wifi router? i would check what your signals look like connected to your router througout the house. i would totally remove your neighbor's connections from your saved list so theres really no chance of connecting to their network. realistically your in house wifi should be the strongest signal lols..?
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this seems more like a problem with the placement of your wifi router? i would check what your signals look like connected to your router througout the house. i would totally remove your neighbor's connections from your saved list so theres really no chance of connecting to their network. realistically your in house wifi should be the strongest signal lols..?
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Our yards are pretty big and I spend a lot of time in all of them. I know my wifi is never going to reach to my neighbors fire pit. When I pull in to the garage their signal is stronger, and then I walk in to my house were obviously mine is stronger, but I'm stuck on the neighbors' unless I manually mess with it.
I have no idea how that Wifi Jumper app is supposed to work but it didn't do anything to help my situation. :\
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Our yards are pretty big and I spend a lot of time in all of them. I know my wifi is never going to reach to my neighbors fire pit. When I pull in to the garage their signal is stronger, and then I walk in to my house were obviously mine is stronger, but I'm stuck on the neighbors' unless I manually mess with it.
I have no idea how that Wifi Jumper app is supposed to work but it didn't do anything to help my situation. :\
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I had same problem but I reset the phone and when it promoted me about Wi-Fi optimization upon setup again I unchecked the box... I couldn't find this in the settings though. The only way was to reset
Hello,
Ever since I've bought my Galaxy Watch non LTE 46mm, I've been having issues at home with the 2.4Ghz wifi network on all devices. Speeds won't go more than 18-20mbps, while on the 5Ghz I reach 350-400mbps.
My router is having these 2.4Ghz settings:
Channel 6, channel width 20mhz, mode 802.11b/g/n
All my devices: tablets, phones show the same behavior: very weak wifi speed on this freq.
Even my watch drops the BT connection to my phone in a matter of 3 meters from it, like from the couch to the desk.
I remember before having the watch that on 2.4Ghz I always got between 60-80mbps no matter the device used.
Have you rebooted your router recently? I've found that helps speeds sometimes.
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Have you rebooted your router recently? I've found that helps speeds sometimes.
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Yep. I guess the only thing I can do is to try and mess with the wifi channels
That's a good idea. Maybe get an app to see channel usage around you to see what's open. A neighbor may have added things. Maybe change the PW on your router in case someone is piggybacking off it?
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That's a good idea. Maybe get an app to see channel usage around you to see what's open. A neighbor may have added things. Maybe change the PW on your router in case someone is piggybacking off it?
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Well, my wifi is mac filter based, so no chance of someone from outside getting on. I have tried now with the watch turned off, speedtest returned 50mbps on my phone and 68 on my ipad. Once I turned the watch on and it connected to my phone, both devices fell to 17-19mbps.
Hi, may it be too bad reception with the clock because it is too far from your router? Is it the same problem if you put the clock near your router?
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Hi, may it be too bad reception with the clock because it is too far from your router? Is it the same problem if you put the clock near your router?
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It's not about the wifi connection of my watch.It's about the fact that when the watch is connected to my phone via bluetooth, all my other devices including the phone, are having bad wifi speeds on 2.4ghz. When I turn the watch off, everything gets back to normal.
It sure sounds like an IP conflict on the network.
T-Mobile down here in Ft Lauderdale area seems to be down at the moment -- phone call seems to work but no internet.
Normally I'm connected to wifi ...but now it does something different. I connect my phone to the wifi and it connects, but no internet. I know the hotspot is ok I have 3 other things connected to it. I setup hotspot sharing on my laptop & connected to it -- same thing, ... no internet?
Is there some reason my phone's wifi won't connect to internet when the mobile service (tmobile in my case) is down??? very frustrating.
ohhh! After 2 hours of messing with this I finally figured it out. I had setup something for 'private DNS' when I first got the phone --- turned that off and now all is working fine....so that must be what was really down.
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ohhh! After 2 hours of messing with this I finally figured it out. I had setup something for 'private DNS' when I first got the phone --- turned that off and now all is working fine....so that must be what was really down.
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Yeah, I was using Adguard's DNS & it seems to be down right now.
It was interfering with my home WI-FI, but, my LTE/5G Signal was unaffected.
I switched to Automatic DNS & now I'm OK.