I noticed when I was at a friend's place recently that the Vibrant supports N wifi networks as well as G. However, I did not have the opportunity to do any extended testing.
I have noticed that wifi transfers over the network using various file sharing tools tend to be slow, and buffering with Allshare can be slow at times. What I'm wondering is, has anybody compared actual speed of Wifi on the Vibrant or Galaxy when using an N network versus G? Is the speed of the phone itself more the limiting factor, or would I get much better speeds using an N network?
Reason is, I'm currently using a Buffalo WHR-54GS router. It is a bit old, but using DD-WRT firmware, it has been rock solid. It does not, however, support N networking. I'm wondering if I would see any improvement in speeds transferring files and buffering DLNA connections by upgrading to a Buffalo WHR-HP-GN which supports N networking.
The only reason I'd upgrade would be for the N based Wifi - so if there's no benefit on my phone, then I wouldn't need to upgrade. Any input?
I have not had a chance to do any benchmarking but I have done allshare over both a G and N network and it did seem noticibly faster over the N network. Especially when paired with a gigabit hard wire to whaterver your streaming to/from.
Actually I think the gigabit helped as much as the wireless N, of course those routers tend to be more expensive...
I got a linksys wrt160n with ddwrt. the n doesnt work great with ddwrt but the router is great. i also have another n wireless but i dont notice much diference at all. maybe internal network stuff but not internet stuff.
Can't say I've done side-by-side comparisons, but it does seem to get some boost from the N speeds. For a new router, I'd suggest the ASUS RT-N16. Just about the most powerful consumer router out there (RAM & CPU) and it runs Tomato (plus dd-wrt)
N is better for streaming.
The N network allows a faster streaming and file transfer over the wifi. Now this will not improve your internet speed. The limit on the router might be higher, the modem will still have its limits. If you use allshare alot, I'll recommend you get a N router, otherwise no reason to purchase something you won't use. I have a Netgear dualband router (WNDR 3300). It supports both N and G networks but I rarely use the N since most of my devices do not support N. The ones I have that do like the Vibrant supports at 2.4ghz frequency. The router can be switched to broadcast the N at 2.4ghz, but like I said, If you're not streaming, there's really no need for it. To put this in numbers, the G networks can only transfer data at the maximum of 50mbps while the N can transfer files at Maximum of ~400mbps (if not higher). If your internet service does not offer more than 50mbps speed, then your internet will remain the same whether on G or N. You have been schooled
Helpful, informative post. Up until the last sentence.
Unless you only set your router to n you wont get the full advantage of using n you will only get compatibility. Having g on slows down you n network to a like speed. At least that what happens on my router, I have a dlink, when I did a little Googling it confirmed it.
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Only Loki said:
Unless you only set your router to n you wont get the full advantage of using n you will only get compatibility. Having g on slows down you n network to a like speed. At least that what happens on my router, I have a dlink, when I did a little Googling it confirmed it.
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May be specific to your Dlink. My Asus does G & N, and the N devices ran significantly faster than the G laptop that I still had connected until recently. The G laptop never slowed anything else down.
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You have been schooled
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To put this in numbers, the G networks can only transfer data at the maximum of 50mbps while the N can transfer files at Maximum of ~400mbps (if not higher).
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If you are going to try to school people, please do it right and quit misleading people.
The Vibrant is not MIMO capable, so we only get a theoretical 150Mbps on 802.11N. Due to security and WiFi error correction, realistic throughput is ~70Mb/s. That is 8.75MB/s, slightly faster than an AData 16G class 6 card, but significantly slower than a SanDisk 8G Class 6 card.
On 802.11G, again due to WiFi error correction and security, a realistic throughput number is around 20Mb/s. That is 2.5MB/s, barely faster than a crappy Class 2 SD card.
Keep in mind that these are all "optimal" numbers. The amount of time that your vibrant will ever see these (more realistic) maximum numbers are probably less than 10% of the time.
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May be specific to your Dlink. My Asus does G & N, and the N devices ran significantly faster than the G laptop that I still had connected until recently. The G laptop never slowed anything else down.
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Try a file transfer on N with the compatibility mode off (N Only) versus in B/G/N mode. You should see a speed increase on N only. However, with everything RF, you might have interfering neighbors that will influence testing.
Some of the wireless routers will slow down. it has to do with the router only having one band. In a dual simultaneous router, one band can be slowed to G speeds, such as my PS3 or my dad's 2nd gen iPod touch. My vibrant, however is automatically positioned on a completely seperate stream from the G devices.
i have a Cisco E3000
and i do see a small difference
about a minute difference in downloading a 600mb file
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I thought I read somewhere that wireless N uses less battery??
Now the epic does not have a 5mhz radio...
So if I go buy a 2.4mhz wireless n router, will I see better battery life?
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Wireless N is more efficient than A B G. But your still having to transfer a lot of data, so I it all depends on how much you use it really. If you mean compared to using 3g then yes it will use less battery.
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Will i see an improvment in battery with 802.11n over 802.11g?
(ldle with useage...)
Im sure i wont see much incress in speeds, right?
Thanks!
Nathan
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Wireless N is more efficient than A B G. But your still having to transfer a lot of data, so I it all depends on how much you use it really. If you mean compared to using 3g then yes it will use less battery.
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Will i see an improvment in battery with 802.11n over 802.11g?
(ldle with useage...)
Im sure i wont see much incress in speeds, right?
Thanks!
Nathan
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Mhm, you'll see an increase in speeds since 802.11n is able to handle more bandwith than 802.11g
And yeah you'll have better battery since its more efficient
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I thought I read somewhere that wireless N uses less battery??
Now the epic does not have a 5mhz radio...
So if I go buy a 2.4mhz wireless n router, will I see better battery life?
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Not sure how this will be more efficient if your still running in the same spectrum? The whole point in wireless N is to run in a different spectrum then A B G. 2.4 is full and fragmented unless you have a N capable device it is still going to be in the full and fragmented 2.4 spectrum sorry just doesn't compute for me. If your saying a N router will handle 2.4 better not to sure about that. Unless the Epic is N capable and if that is the case I will be going out to buy a new router
Just my 7 cents worth! Sorry use to be 2 cents but inflation you know.
I have wireless n. On eclair I would see massive difference in using wifi over 3g as far as battery but not on froyo they are about the same now. But speed wise the n is way faster and has really good range too.
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Not sure how this will be more efficient if your still running in the same spectrum? The whole point in wireless N is to run in a different spectrum then A B G. 2.4 is full and fragmented unless you have a N capable device it is still going to be in the full and fragmented 2.4 spectrum sorry just doesn't compute for me. If your saying a N router will handle 2.4 better not to sure about that. Unless the Epic is N capable and if that is the case I will be going out to buy a new router
Just my 7 cents worth! Sorry use to be 2 cents but inflation you know.
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Yes he's asking if it will be better to buy an N capable router to replace his A B G.
7 is the new 2
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I thought I read somewhere that wireless N uses less battery??
Now the epic does not have a 5mhz radio...
So if I go buy a 2.4mhz wireless n router, will I see better battery life?
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From my limited knowledge and experience, it really depends on signal strength. Let's pose an example.
Assume one's 3G signal is 1 bar out of 5, while their 802.11g (Wifi) signal is 5 bars out of 5. Running on Wifi will lead to much greater battery life than on 3G because your connection will be much stronger, i.e. less chance of dropped signal, blah blah, etc.
Now, assume one's 802.11g (Wifi) signal is now 1 bar out of 5, while their 3G signal is 5 bars out of 5. This is iffy territory, but generally one can safely imagine that running on 3G will yield better battery life, simply because the phone is still going to have to work pretty hard to maintain a constant Wifi signal.
Now, move into the realm of 802.11g vs 802.11n. Assume signal strength for both will be equal, either 1 bar out of 5, 2 bars out of 5, 3 bars out of 5, etc. The difference between each signal is efficiency and speed. The faster one can transfer the same amount of data, the less amount of time the phone has to remain in a state of high CPU frequency and heavy load. Furthermore, 802.11n (Wireless-N) is known to have a higher efficiency than 802.11g (Wireless-G), so battery should be saved there, too.
Still, I think it's also safe to say that the difference between a Wireless-G router and Wireless-N router will be about equal in terms of battery life. Maybe you'll get another 15 minutes of battery if you upgrade to Wireless-N. MAYBE. And that's assuming you transfer or download large files on your phone, or listen to lots of Pandora where you're constantly using data. Is it worth it? Will you actually notice that in the real world? Is that assumption even applicable to how you use your phone?
tl;dr - Unless the Wireless-N router's greater range over the Wireless-G router will get you more bars when connected to Wifi on your phone, the difference is likely negligible.
Thanks for the info!!!
Ok so I gather that I won't see a big increase in battery, by buyn a new N router, but I stil might just to add one to my network for stronger signal...
Now I have a large house, 3500sf. I have 3 routers (fios router, one in media closet, one in back side of house) why won't my epic drop the weak wifi, and connect to stronger one? Won't this help battery life?
Also is there a wifi preference order (prefred wifi connection), like on windows?
Right now my routers are just set as access points (not gateways), so my fios router is my dhcp for all wireless routers on the same subnet... currently each router has a different ssid....
Should I set all ssid as the same name, can this help? Or will it just confuse my phone?
Thanks again,
Nathan
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From my limited knowledge and experience, it really depends on signal strength. Let's pose an example.
Assume one's 3G signal is 1 bar out of 5, while their 802.11g (Wifi) signal is 5 bars out of 5. Running on Wifi will lead to much greater battery life than on 3G because your connection will be much stronger, i.e. less chance of dropped signal, blah blah, etc.
Now, assume one's 802.11g (Wifi) signal is now 1 bar out of 5, while their 3G signal is 5 bars out of 5. This is iffy territory, but generally one can safely imagine that running on 3G will yield better battery life, simply because the phone is still going to have to work pretty hard to maintain a constant Wifi signal.
Now, move into the realm of 802.11g vs 802.11n. Assume signal strength for both will be equal, either 1 bar out of 5, 2 bars out of 5, 3 bars out of 5, etc. The difference between each signal is efficiency and speed. The faster one can transfer the same amount of data, the less amount of time the phone has to remain in a state of high CPU frequency and heavy load. Furthermore, 802.11n (Wireless-N) is known to have a higher efficiency than 802.11g (Wireless-G), so battery should be saved there, too.
Still, I think it's also safe to say that the difference between a Wireless-G router and Wireless-N router will be about equal in terms of battery life. Maybe you'll get another 15 minutes of battery if you upgrade to Wireless-N. MAYBE. And that's assuming you transfer or download large files on your phone, or listen to lots of Pandora where you're constantly using data. Is it worth it? Will you actually notice that in the real world? Is that assumption even applicable to how you use your phone?
tl;dr - Unless the Wireless-N router's greater range over the Wireless-G router will get you more bars when connected to Wifi on your phone, the difference is likely negligible.
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2 things you may want to research 1 put your router in the center of your house then range issues are gone. If you cannot put it in the center then look at making the other routers a wireless repeater of the first. Which means they would all put out the same ssid and all be the same wifi connection just repeated from the first router just stronger cuz the 2nd and 3rd routers are transmitting and recieiving data. Now I'm gonna throw in a 3rd option go buy a cisco wireless access point that will have your wifi covered for a qtr mile and has connection speeds of 110mbps rather than 50mbps but that wireless access point is $750
If I do bey an expencive router that has a high output radio, will I have a problem with the router receiving the data packets from my low output epic radio?
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2 things you may want to research 1 put your router in the center of your house then range issues are gone. If you cannot put it in the center then look at making the other routers a wireless repeater of the first. Which means they would all put out the same ssid and all be the same wifi connection just repeated from the first router just stronger cuz the 2nd and 3rd routers are transmitting and recieiving data. Now I'm gonna throw in a 3rd option go buy a cisco wireless access point that will have your wifi covered for a qtr mile and has connection speeds of 110mbps rather than 50mbps but that wireless access point is $750
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The connection speeds on any wireless N router are 100mps aren't they? I mean if the device can handle it of course.
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The connection speeds on any wireless N router are 100mps aren't they? I mean if the device can handle it of course.
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Just ran a speedtest off my dualband 150mbps router.
on pc i average: 9 ping, 30.5 mb download and 3.5 upload
on phone just got: 29 ping, 13.5mb, and 3.5 upload
So it's not going to be as fast as your connection if you have a good connection, but if it's a slower connection(10m or so), you oughta be fine.
You have amazing speeds haha.
I get about 11mbps dl 4mbps ul
On my computer
And about 14mbps dl and 4mbps ul
On my epic
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I have a 15 meg connection, and when I upgraded my router from g to n, I went from getting about 8 meg on the phone to about 12. My new router is a dual band, so that helps too. I live in a crowded wireless area, so channel selection is everything. Luckly there are android apps to help with that. I can't really say if it made much difference in battery life since I change roms too much, but its definately better than the weak 3g signal in my apartment.
P.s. if you're upgrading your router, look at the buffalo wzr-hp-g300nh. Its got dd-wrt, is high powered, and has tons more ram and cpu than anything under $100.
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Forgetting all external speeds, what is the best link speed you've seen? I can't seem to get over 65Mbps on the GNex. I've got a 300Mbps 5gHz router that I am connected to and it will never connect at over 65Mbps.
Has anyone gotten higher? Yes, I know that is faster than most internet speeds but I'm interested in certain streaming at home and I'd like to get the best connection possible.
I'm connected at 65mbit too, it is N speed since regular wireless is 54mbit though. I haven't seen any specs other then it supports N networks.
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And you need more than 65mbps why?
I bet the hardware is limited around that speed of 65Mbps...mobile cpu/ram is bottleneck.
Yup 65mbps is the max connection you will get - same as the iPad 2
Cant be bothered digging up details on why, because it wont change anything
Same here but with a net connection of 20Mbps then I don't think I'd often benefit from faster. Usually do file tranfers over wires as well
I purchased my phone shortly after launch, so I've had it for a while. Every now and then, I'll randomly perform a speed test through the Speedtest.net app. I've noticed that I've never gotten more than 10mbps down when connected via Wi-Fi, even though I have a 50mbps connection -- on LTE, I've gotten up to 20mbps. I've also tested the phone on other Wi-Fi networks, with the same result.
People often say that the online speed tests aren't 100% accurate, so I decided to test the phone using iperf. I used a Linux machine with a direct ethernet connection to the router as the iperf server. I ran several tests, and they all came back with ~10mbps.
Is this normal, or do I have a defective phone that needs to be taken back to AT&T? What's the warranty on these phones, btw? I bought it off-contract at an AT&T retail store.
No, I can get my full internet connection speed through my phone (15mbps). I'd suggest running the test when you the phone is physically closer to the wireless router.
Do you have a 'g' or 'n' wireless connection?
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No, I can get my full internet connection speed through my phone (15mbps). I'd suggest running the test when you the phone is physically closer to the wireless router.
Do you have a 'g' or 'n' wireless connection?
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I've tested on both G and N, as well as 2.4GHz and 5GHz. I've done all my tests within arms reach of the router.
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I've tested on both G and N, as well as 2.4GHz and 5GHz. I've done all my tests within arms reach of the router.
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Got me stumped then.
The phone connects at G not N, it doesn't have 5GHz capabilities.
The best on N connection (300mbps) PC to PC on my home network, is about sustain 12MB/sec (megabytes/sec), that's about 96mbps which is actually pretty good for N 300mbps.
The phone best can do is 1MB/sec, which is about what I was getting on G network card PC to PC, therefor it seems this phone doesn't actually have N connection
These statistics are pure amateur stats using NetMeter on PC and Traffic Monitor on phone.
My router doesn't show actual connection speed of a device
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The phone connects at G not N, it doesn't have 5GHz capabilities.
The best on N connection (300mbps) PC to PC on my home network, is about sustain 12MB/sec (megabytes/sec), that's about 96mbps which is actually pretty good for N 300mbps.
The phone best can do is 1MB/sec, which is about what I was getting on G network card PC to PC, therefor it seems this phone doesn't actually have N connection
These statistics are pure amateur stats using NetMeter on PC and Traffic Monitor on phone.
My router doesn't show actual connection speed of a device
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You could see connection speed in wifi settings by tapping on connected network.
[email protected] said:
The phone connects at G not N, it doesn't have 5GHz capabilities.
The best on N connection (300mbps) PC to PC on my home network, is about sustain 12MB/sec (megabytes/sec), that's about 96mbps which is actually pretty good for N 300mbps.
The phone best can do is 1MB/sec, which is about what I was getting on G network card PC to PC, therefor it seems this phone doesn't actually have N connection
These statistics are pure amateur stats using NetMeter on PC and Traffic Monitor on phone.
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You're right, it doesn't have 5GHz capabilities. My mistake. I did my iperf tests on two different routers, an ASUS RT-N66U (stock) and Linksys WRT54GL (w/ DD-WRT). I forgot that my phone only connects to the 2.4GHz band of the ASUS router.
Anyways, do believe that it does have N capabilities. It's listed in the specs. It's just that we don't get anything close to N speeds.
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You could see connection speed in wifi settings by tapping on connected network.
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65Mbps = G network...Nice lie, LG!
Donatron said:
You're right, it doesn't have 5GHz capabilities. My mistake. I did my iperf tests on two different routers, an ASUS RT-N66U (stock) and Linksys WRT54GL (w/ DD-WRT). I forgot that my phone only connects to the 2.4GHz band of the ASUS router.
Anyways, do believe that it does have N capabilities. It's listed in the specs. It's just that we don't get anything close to N speeds.
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It doesn't seem to be related to that though. I only have G wifi at home, and I can get 1.5MB/sec (12mbps) which is my maximum internet speed without any issue.
Have you tried running a speed test on a different wifi network?
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65Mbps = G network...Nice lie, LG!
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Not necessarily. Some routers can do better than 54mbps on wireless-G if the device supports it. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125_High_Speed_Mode
Dunno if that's actually what's happening though.
I can only seem to connect at 150Mbps. Is this phone wireless N 150Mbps or 300Mbps or 450Mbps?
Is your router capable of 300Mbps or 450Mbps?
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I can only seem to connect at 150Mbps. Is this phone wireless N 150Mbps or 300Mbps or 450Mbps?
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According to Geekaphone.com it's Wireless N 150Mbps. Hope this helps
No worries about that, to have an isp providing internet at that speed would put you on the to 1% list.
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I can only seem to connect at 150Mbps. Is this phone wireless N 150Mbps or 300Mbps or 450Mbps?
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I only ever remember seeing a 150Mbps linkspeed on TouchWiz, even though my Dlink WNDR3700 (w/dd-wrt) router supports faster, and I've only seen up to 65-72Mbps on CM10 fwiw.
I tend to use the 802.11G more than N, though, because it has much better range, and almost always gets a 54Mbps linkspeed, which is still plenty of bandwidth (~6MB/s) for just about everything these days. I'll sometimes switch back to N if G gets congested or in the rare case when I need slightly more bandwidth (like maxing out the 10MB/s write speed of my external class10 SDcard when not using USB).
Hi everyone,
I have my Nexus 7 connected to a Linksys WRT160N router with tomatoRAF firmware installed. This router+firmware+configuration setup was the best I could do without constant dropping of connection or not connecting at all, but still at very slow speed of 0,5 - 1,5 MB/s (average is more around 0,6) when copying files on local network (SMB) with ES File Explorer. Which is good enough for web surfing and emails, but not enough for IPTV and youtube (youtube works, but i have to wait for it a lot).
So far i have tried numerous configurations of my router, nothing works. I tried other routers, 9 to be exact, but i have never seen more than 2MB/s.
Now i'm thinking about buying new router, and I want to know what wifi speeds do you get with which router.
thanks
Hi,
what's your net speed? mine is 26 mbit/s and this is what i get. however, IF you stream sound with BT/have any BT service up and running and your wifi runs at 2.4ghz it is highly probable the two (bt and wifi) interfere. This was the problem i had and which i found out after buying soundbar which links with its subwoofer via BT(BT butchered my wifi, i was scoring 1mbit to up to 26). I have switched to dual band modem/router (tp link td-w8980). now, i have two WiFi networks at my place, one which runs at 2.4ghz and the second at 5ghz. the 5ghz is used only by my nexus :]
N7 2013, Buffalo N300 router, Verizon FiOS 75/25. The router is dual channel, but not dual band: 2.4GHz only.
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enlev said:
Hi everyone,
I have my Nexus 7 connected to a Linksys WRT160N router with tomatoRAF firmware installed. This router+firmware+configuration setup was the best I could do without constant dropping of connection or not connecting at all, but still at very slow speed of 0,5 - 1,5 MB/s (average is more around 0,6) when copying files on local network (SMB) with ES File Explorer. Which is good enough for web surfing and emails, but not enough for IPTV and youtube (youtube works, but i have to wait for it a lot).
So far i have tried numerous configurations of my router, nothing works. I tried other routers, 9 to be exact, but i have never seen more than 2MB/s.
Now i'm thinking about buying new router, and I want to know what wifi speeds do you get with which router.
thanks
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I had throughput issues with a Linksys WRT54GL and Tomato, was not a configuration problem. Loved the way Tomato worked, how it looked, it's options... but in the end, all I really cared about was throughput. Are you able to replicate the throughput issue on stock router firmware? You said you tried other routers. All the same model (RMA)?
Tell me more about your connectivity issues.
If you've used different routers from different manufacturers (with their respective stock firmware), then it's probably a problem with your tablet.
Aerowinder said:
I had throughput issues with a Linksys WRT54GL and Tomato, was not a configuration problem. Loved the way Tomato worked, how it looked, it's options... but in the end, all I really cared about was throughput. Are you able to replicate the throughput issue on stock router firmware? You said you tried other routers. All the same model (RMA)?
Tell me more about your connectivity issues.
If you've used different routers from different manufacturers (with their respective stock firmware), then it's probably a problem with your tablet.
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I had this throughput issue from the day I received my nexus 7 (2013), with stock firmware on router. But with stock firmware, the connection would drop randomly (from 5 minutes to 12 hours) and to reconnect i had to restart the router and nexus - this was corrected only with this firmware TomatoRAF (i tried dd-wrt and 2 more tomato firmwares - all kept disconnecting). I never had this throughput issue with any laptop, only this nexus.
The other routers i tried were all different routers, but all at least 3 years old.
Another information: friends nexus 7 (2013) WIFI, flo, also had same speeds on my router.
today i will try to test a few phones and a laptop on my router and will post results as soon as i can
32gb lte model, I use an Asus ac66u and Comcast 105\25 Mbps. 5ghz WiFi gets me 90 Mbps down and 22-30 up, 55 Mbps down and 22-30 up on 2.4 GHz.
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This is what i get (copying files from server with es file explorer):
nexus 7 2013 (kitkat) - 760kB/s
1st xperia ray (kitkat) - 750kB/s
2nd xperia ray (jellybean) - 530kB/s
xperia mini pro (jellybean) - 560kB/s
galaxy s4 mini - 1070kB/s
laptop - 6500kB/s
I used to get 10MB/s+ on my laptop with original linksys firmware, but now i configured router to be more "reliable" and i would be more than happy if nexus had 6,5MB/s connection.
I attached some info about router configuration. If there is an "expert" reading this willing to help, i can post more complete configuration.
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32gb lte model, I use an Asus ac66u and Comcast 105\25 Mbps. 5ghz WiFi gets me 90 Mbps down and 22-30 up, 55 Mbps down and 22-30 up on 2.4 GHz.
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Are you happy with ac66u? any problems? what about lan to wifi speeds (with laptop/ac adapter)? i am asking as it is a serious contender for my next router
DeathmonkeyGTX said:
32gb lte model, I use an Asus ac66u and Comcast 105\25 Mbps. 5ghz WiFi gets me 90 Mbps down and 22-30 up, 55 Mbps down and 22-30 up on 2.4 GHz.
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I think I hate you! Ok... maybe I'm just a little jealous!
enlev said:
Are you happy with ac66u? any problems? what about lan to wifi speeds (with laptop/ac adapter)? i am asking as it is a serious contender for my next router
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Considering how inexpensive it was I"m extremely happy with the TP-Link WR1043ND that I use. With aftermarket antennas I bought as an experiment and the current firmware installed signal strength through walls and general performance is great. I thought about installing third-party firmware on it when I first got it a couple years ago but see no need. For the package I have from Comcast they advertise I think 25 Mbps down and 5Mbps up and I usually see 28/6. If you haven't already done so make sure your router is using the best channel for your location. Also, I see a lot of people move off of channels 1, 6 and 11 which can make them see/cause more bleedover from/to adjacent channels. You can see that in my screenshot with networks MercedesBenz and Sandvik. I live in a house but the effect in an apartment or condo would be worse. I also use a repeater because my router is at the opposite end of the house from my backyard patio and this house has insulated steel siding. Wifi Analyzer is a free app and works great to figure out what channel would work best for you.
Also in the N7's wifi advanced settings I use "2.4 GHz only" which seems to make it reconnect faster when waking up the device because I also use "only when plugged in" during sleep.
enlev said:
Are you happy with ac66u? any problems? what about lan to wifi speeds (with laptop/ac adapter)? i am asking as it is a serious contender for my next router
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I haven't had any problems. All my large lan transfers are done over Ethernet cat 6. If it can pull down 90mbps from wan to wlan on two phones and a tablet, well then there's your sign lol. All these speeds are on n WiFi, I haven't even tried ac because all my machines that need all available bandwidth are hardwired. The router hasn't even required rebooting unless one counts firmware updates and such. Hardline lan to lan is right about 100 MB/s.there's an even faster model out called the ac68u but it's significantly more expensive.
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I have the 32GB LTE version... Using an Asus RT-N66U as my access point...
On 2.4 ghz I get 22.5 mbps down and 7.5 mbps up*
On 5 gzh I get 68.4 mbps down and 11.5 mbps up... which is the max speeds I see from my ISP.
*note: there are about 18 strong 2.4 ghz networks visible at my location (surrounded by apartment buildings). 2.4 ghz performance consistently suffers with this level of interference across all of my connected devices.
As far as the RT-N66U goes... I'm very happy with it's performance and range of signal. I was a long time WRT54G user with tomato. This matches almost perfectly.