I have been beta testing a bittorrent client app on my EVO that runs on Android. I'm able to use the app's built-in search feature to search for torrent files on isoHunt. I can select the file and it will start transferring to my computer, but I've been having a bunch of problems getting it to complete a download.
I installed the 3gtest app and ran a test. It said that both bit torrent uplink traffic and bit torrent downlink traffic were blocked. This was all on 3G. I had 4G turned off. Has anyone else seen this?
I plan to try it on 4G (assuming 3gtest works on 4G), and I was also thinking about trying to transfer a torrent on my PC while wi-fi tethering. I'm running fresh's 0.5.3 ROM, but I doubt there's anything there that's causing a problem. Fresh doesn't run adblocking or anything. Any ideas?
geams13 said:
I have been beta testing a bittorrent client app on my EVO that runs on Android. I'm able to use the app's built-in search feature to search for torrent files on isoHunt. I can select the file and it will start transferring to my computer, but I've been having a bunch of problems getting it to complete a download.
I installed the 3gtest app and ran a test. It said that both bit torrent uplink traffic and bit torrent downlink traffic were blocked. This was all on 3G. I had 4G turned off. Has anyone else seen this?
I plan to try it on 4G (assuming 3gtest works on 4G), and I was also thinking about trying to transfer a torrent on my PC while wi-fi tethering. I'm running fresh's 0.5.3 ROM, but I doubt there's anything there that's causing a problem. Fresh doesn't run adblocking or anything. Any ideas?
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I get the same results while tethering my phone. Shame really...
I dont have any problems... I have been downloading torrents via tether since the 4th.
I can download torrents, but never get past 10kbps while downloading
My speeds go up and down, tops at 150kb/s.
I'll try it later over usb tethering and post my results so we can see if it's regional or nationwide.
You have a link to this bittorrent client? I never have my laptop in a 4G area.
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geams13 said:
I have been beta testing a bittorrent client app on my EVO that runs on Android. I'm able to use the app's built-in search feature to search for torrent files on isoHunt. I can select the file and it will start transferring to my computer, but I've been having a bunch of problems getting it to complete a download.
I installed the 3gtest app and ran a test. It said that both bit torrent uplink traffic and bit torrent downlink traffic were blocked. This was all on 3G. I had 4G turned off. Has anyone else seen this?
I plan to try it on 4G (assuming 3gtest works on 4G), and I was also thinking about trying to transfer a torrent on my PC while wi-fi tethering. I'm running fresh's 0.5.3 ROM, but I doubt there's anything there that's causing a problem. Fresh doesn't run adblocking or anything. Any ideas?
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FYI I ran this app on my 4G and on my home WiFi.. both of which can download torrents just fine and it shows them as "Blocked" so I am not sure how accurate it is.
oOflyeyesOo said:
My speeds go up and down, tops at 150kb/s.
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AndTorrent gives me about the same speeds on 3G/4G.
WiFi tops out ~200kb/s.
For those interested, check out BluePlanetapps on twitter. That's the developer and he posts updates there.
My 3gtest says that bittorrents are blocked, but I can actually start a torrent. The speeds vary on 3G, going up to around 150 kb/s, but after a variable number of minutes downloading, it'll stop. I can manually restart it later and it continues to download, and then it will stop again.
It seems like Sprint isn't blocking all bittorrent ports, but that it's detecting the torrent and then blocks it. I dunno. I'll try tethering and 4G over the next couple of days and post my results. Unfortunately, I don't get a great 4G signal at home. If anyone else runs any tests, please post them.
I'm not surprised in the slightest that Sprint is blocking them. Why? Two reasons:
1) Upload bandwith on a limited cell network is, well, limited. It's just like your normal internet node - there's usually lots of download bandwith, but only so much upload to go around. You cap that and you've now screwed everyone else on the node until you're done.
2) Legality issues. 95-99% (some high percentage) of all torrents out there contain some sort of illegal and/or very gray-area items. Sprint is trying to protect their rears for when the MPAA/RIAA mafia look their way.
So yes, I'm not surprised at all. Why you shouldn't be doing it either. For the love of all that's holy, if you must torrent, do it on your own home connection that has a MUCH higher limit on upload bandwith.
Actually, as crazy as it sounds my upload speeds are faster on 3g than on my home connection. Thank you time warner.
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I wired tethered my evo to my pc on 3g last night, was torrenting just fine
Uh all modern bittorent applications chose ports at random.
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Hello,
I tried searching for this issue and could not find any help in the topics, though I see some others are having the same issue with out resolution.
My phone via 4g get's about 3-5mbps when I run speedtest on the evo...
I start wireless tether and the fastest speed I can get via my laptop is .7mbps.
I updated my wireless driver to allow maximum power and that has allowed the speed to stay constant and improved the situation a little. ( there was a post somewhere on here, so thank you for that one)
Any ideas/help on how I can get my wireless tether speed to match closer to the 4g speed the phone gets? I am using google's wireless tether pre3 version. I have tried all 3 versions ( from the stable one, pre2 and pre3) all having same issue.
Is a full 2-4mbps loss in speed normal via wireless tether?
I am using rooted stock 1.47 rom and have tried fresh ROM with same results.
Any tips or help is greatly appreciated.
Same here
Hey, thought I would add to the chorus...with a large caveat.
I average about 5-7 down and about 1 up pretty consistently in my home on the phone. But, when I just browse and surf the web via the Android Wifi Tether (2.07) on my phone, I only get around 500k-1meg via Speedtest.net. However, if I look at the stats on my Tether application while I view things like FB, I spike to well over 3 megs at times. AND when I get torrents, I am using my full bandwidth that my phone says I have available to me, with almost nothing lost (as far as I can tell) from the 4g service, through the Wifi, to my computer.
This might not mean too much, and in fact I might never have noticed anything, until I tried to watch HD videos on my Laptops browser connected to my Evo via the Wifi app. It simply will not give me much more than 700 k (you can track what the site (for example, TheDailyShow) sees as "available" to you), even though I know I have more than that available to me at that exact same second (because I tell the torrents that I had been downloading to slow down, and immediately speed back up again after I try to watch HD videos)
It's not the same issue, but I think they are related. Have you tried torrents to see what you actually have available to you? Try something common and legal, so as not to piss anyone off.
I know I have the capacity, and I know my phone can handle it, I just dunno why I can't get that bandwidth that I know I have access to via the Tether application on my Evo all the time that I am browsing.
I have been doing a lot of 4G tethering with CM7 and for the most part it is great for downloads but pretty marginal for other activities.
I used open signal maps to locate what appears to be my tower or cluster of and ran a few tests with speedtest.net. pingtest.net did not work due to a java and/or firewall? issue.
I am typically 100-130ms and at the tower I was a pretty consistent 105ms @ a good 4500kbs or so.
I also found a spot away from the towers a bit where I seemed to get 115ms @ 7500kbps.
Is 105ms about as good as it gets or could my phone/sprint be a little better? What is typical?
Thanks
FYI: I was just logged out of xda during the post due to the latency I am concerned about.
The best latency I have ever seen on my phone on 3G is about 200ms, on 4G it gets down to 180ms. Basically, not the best option for gaming at all (some people is able to play on xbox with these latencies... I don't know how they can take it)
I am trying to run VOIP over 4G tether and when it works it works great when it sucks it sucks. Part of the problem might be the possibility of a changing IP address. That has to be a drag for gaming too. I also seem to get logged out of many sites too due to the inconsistency/latency.
Not sure if a proxy will help or not.
I've run Wifi Tether, EasyTether Pro, and ClockworkMod Tether. All give me tethered speeds <= 1Mbps up and down.
This is a Galaxy Nexus LTE with unlocked bootloader and Root. Stock otherwise and no radio update.
Running on OSX 7.2.
I can run the speed test from the same location and get 25Mbps+ while running the test from my phone.
I can do this while running any of the tethering apps as well and I'll still get blazing speeds on my phone, but terrible on my computer.
It's definitely not a USB problem as the computer is USB 2.0 and there are no other devices plugged in.
It's also not a general computer issue as I've tested on other machines, both Mac and Windows.
Anyone have any ideas on how to hunt down the problem?
Looking for any suggestions at all...
I've only run Speed test once while tethering, but my speed was 1Mbps just like you. I should mention that I have a stock SGN and that I have the hotspots option in my plan. My download speed just a minute later using only the phone was 15Mbps.
I wonder if there is some internal throttle in ICS or Verizon's version of it.
Brian
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I do wired tethering via PDANet and average 3 - 5mbps with this phone. It was about the same before & after root. I think it could also be tied in to the radio(reception issues). With past 4G phones I had both better reception and much faster data speeds. I'd say we're probably going to have to sit tight and hope that Verizon releases a fix soon.
It may be related to the stock ROM. I'm running CM9 and get a cap of around 12mbps on wifi tether. Never tested on USB, but I have to assume the cap is due to Wi-Fi limitations.
When tethering via USB, your tether speeds will be limited to the same speed as the slowest USB device connected to your PC at the time. That means unplug all other USB peripherals (where possible) or upgrade them to faster models if you want improve your tether speeds. Koush posted this in his notes somewhere (either in the app description itself on the market, or on his Google+ page) - I remember reading his full disclosure about this issue.
TL;DR version = unplug all USB devices and see if your tether speeds increases. If so, plug them back in, one at a time, until your speeds slow, which can help you determine which device is the culprit. Replace said device with a faster model, or don't use it when tethering.
Edit: I found it! Here's my source for the Tether being limited by your slowest USB device. The quote is here: "Tether speeds slow?
Your USB speed is limited to the speed of the *slowest* peripheral you have connected. It is recommended you unplug any unnecessary/slow USB peripherals to get maximum Tether speeds." That quote is taken right from the app description itself, which can be found alongside the app here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.tether
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I do wired tethering via PDANet and average 3 - 5mbps with this phone. It was about the same before & after root. I think it could also be tied in to the radio(reception issues). With past 4G phones I had both better reception and much faster data speeds. I'd say we're probably going to have to sit tight and hope that Verizon releases a fix soon.
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I don't think it's a radio issue. My data speeds to the phone are REALLY high. The only time I have a problem is when the data passes on to the computer. The speed I see on my phone is never an issue regardless of how the phone is configured (to tether). The speed issue is only on the computer side. It's also not a computer issue as I've stated above.
Last I heard, VZW is planning to "fix" signal issues by making the signal icon report a higher value than what it's getting. The DB reading won't change, so they're not lying but they're not telling an honest story either. Surprise!
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It may be related to the stock ROM. I'm running CM9 and get a cap of around 12mbps on wifi tether. Never tested on USB, but I have to assume the cap is due to Wi-Fi limitations.
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I have not tried a custom ROM yet. That is next in my plan.
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When tethering via USB, your tether speeds will be limited to the same speed as the slowest USB device connected to your PC at the time.
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Not an issue with my computer. Please refer to the original post.
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To clarify my response in this post, I'm not attacking anyone's response. I'm only trying to narrow everything down for anyone who may stumble upon this in the future.
Thanks for the input everyone!
I did a backup and wipe. Installed tether and ran before a restore. Same problems...
I will try a different ROM and get back to you all.
I usually get 20 mb/s down on 4bars of LTE, when tethering with wifi tether beta 3 Located Here and i got 6mb/s tethering to an iphone 4s and 2 ipod touches
I agree I have no problems pulling over 25Mbps using the WiFi Tether app that was linked above. I will say that I would recommend going to the site and go under downloads and use the 3.1 pre113 (experimental version). I have found this to be the most stable for me with the best connectivity.
Znomon said:
I usually get 20 mb/s down on 4bars of LTE, when tethering with wifi tether beta 3 Located Here and i got 6mb/s tethering to an iphone 4s and 2 ipod touches
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Understood.
My issue is not with the tethering software though... something deeper within the system configuration is awry.
I loaded the 'AOKP - Team Kang -Build 15' ROM and tethering is blazing. I guess I'll just bounce around on ROMs until I find the cleanest build that is close to stock.
I considered loading stock and wiping out everything, but I don't want to lose what's on /sdcard/ .
From what I understand, loading the stock ROM will completely wipe.
If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know.
hgray said:
Understood.
My issue is not with the tethering software though... something deeper within the system configuration is awry.
I loaded the 'AOKP - Team Kang -Build 15' ROM and tethering is blazing. I guess I'll just bounce around on ROMs until I find the cleanest build that is close to stock.
I considered loading stock and wiping out everything, but I don't want to lose what's on /sdcard/ .
From what I understand, loading the stock ROM will completely wipe.
If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know.
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When you are flashing different roms you should always wipe data and cache to avoid any issues. I am using the stock rom and then I rooted with CF-Root through fastboot and have no issue with WiFi Tether. I stock with the 113 experimental as it seems to work the best for me on this set up. I would just copy you sd content and the paste it back over once flashed back to factory.
Right. I was trying to avoid copying the SD content again. I have quite a bit of data... :-/
I switched back over to my stock backup because the custom ROMs I tried all crash when I restore from Titanium. Seems as though they all won't run unless you keep the gapps that the dev includes in the ROM.
After some more consideration, it seems as though my tether is pulling data from the 3G side while the rest of the phone runs happily on 4G.
Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1440021&page=2
More info about my problem at the above thread.
Still struggling with this issue...
I have upgraded to 4.0.4 and I noticed speed improvements that lasted the period of the previous weekend. No clue why...
Some other details that might be helpful:
Android-Wifi-Tether is slower than the stock tether with both upload and download speeds slow.
Have tried third party ROMS and experience the same issue. (Slow download, fast upload)
EasyTether Pro now works as you'd expect 4G tether to! Speeds as fast as everything else that runs from my phone.
ClockworkMod Tether is slow like Android-Wifi-Tether. Up and Down speeds < 1M
One server in Columbia, SC on speedtest.net reports speeds > 6M down and 2M up.
Does anyone have any clues as to the difference in the way these two programs operate?
I'm on a Mac and when I first connect I get an error that there is no internet available. I have to turn wifi off and back on from the computer. I leave the phone alone for this.
I've run speed tests on Windows machines with same results
I know someone with a Mifi hotspot that has the same issues I've been describing here. Even with the Columbia, SC server on speedtest.net
Verizon has yet to make contact with him.
Any ideas?
not sure if anyone is using their phone while tethering to another device but when i tried to use my phone while tethering, i'm getting a lot of drop connection. It's so bad that while using the stock "internet" application to browse the site or streaming music from sites; it won't load. All this goes away when i shut down the hot spot tethering.
i'm on stock ATT rom with no trip counter flash root and tether mod. if you're having this issue or had this in the past, please leave some feedback and comment as to how you've fixed it. thanks
You are probably getting throttled while on the call. AT&T recently implemented a silent throttle of about 1mbps down and 20kbps up while talking on the phone. This makes all but the simplest web browsing impossible. Using the internet while talking on the phone used to be a feature that made AT&T better. Funny, they still advertise it as a benefit.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
Since all stock ROMs are really the same - try AOKP and CM10, see if they're better in this regard.
so i wasn't on call. i was actually streaming music online using the stock "internet application" from Sammy. let me try to explain again.
hot spot is enable - stock app from ATT rom and my Asus tablet is connected. i then stream music using the internet application / similar to the "browser" application on the asus through a website. so basically using flash to listen to music online. then i use my Asus tablet to surf the net. when doing that, i can not stream music at all on my phone.
Maybe you just don't have the mobile bandwidth for it? Is your signal strong? Have you tried running a Speedtest to see what kind of DL speeds you're getting?
i'm having a hard time with the speedtest on this S3. first it's connecting to some far away server than the one that i'm used to and the speed is horrendous. .23 up and .20 down - what in the hell is that!
i get a different connection result when i used my tablet and do the speed test while tethering off my phone.
WEird!
I'm hoping that I'm the only one having this issue and that its something I'm just overlooking but I can't seem to download torrents via magnet links. I've tried a few different apps and sites but still nothing. The download never kicks in. I'm not rooted (at the moment) as I'm still seeing if this is the right device for me. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
I was able to use a magnet link - via Chrome / desktop view. Which browser and torrent client are you using?
I'm Abel to download but not reach real high speeds
Tmobile throttles P2P. Use vpn and you'll get mbps speeds with your downloads.
Sorry I'm just now checking back. I re-flashed the stock firmware and I can now download magnet links again. Odd how that fixed the issue. I have noticed a speed difference though which does indicate some throttling. Thanks everyone!
Any free vpn apps out there?