[Q] slow WIFI speeds on Gingerbread ROMS? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When running speedtest.net on my computer I get around 10 mbps download, and around 9.5 mbps on rooted stock rom.
but whenever i try a gingerbread ROM, i.e oxygen, CM7, redux 1.2, etc with ALL radios...i get around 6.5 mbps sometimes 1mbps with other radios.
I have tested this many times, and always get a consistent speed over 9mbps
this also affects HSDPA speed (slow ping, and sudden speed increase/rapid decrease)
Can anyone confirm this?
Or is it just my device?

i'm having the same issues. just flashed omfgb 1.2. download speeds are dramatically reduced, testing same server from same distance from router. 22mbps down on laptop, 3 down on Dinc. i was running virtuous 3.2.0 with his custom kernal and always duplicated my laptops speed results.

Sooooo, what can we do about it? Can someone please help? I'm having the same issue. By the way, just downloaded samba file share, it's pretty cool, fairly basic interface though, you can basically transfer stuff "drag & drop" style without having to connect USB and mount as disk drive. My only issue is, you can't tell it "only use this network".
Maybe someone else could give this app a go and let me know what they think?

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Varying WiFi speeds among different ROMS?

When I have 6.1 installed (CRCs/Pays) I get about 1,500KB/s using the dslreports.com mobile speed test. This seems about right. With 6.5 installed the speeds seem much lower. Right now I am running DV 5.0 Final and I get around 700-800KB/s. My router is set to G-Only and everything is good on that end. Is there something I can do to improve the WiFi speeds or is this normal?
Bump. Just trying to figure out what's going on here. With 6.1 ROMs I am getting great speeds but I just flashed to DV5.0 and cannot get anything abot 700-800kb/s.
mmm?
Its due to the PP cause IE needs almost 13MB PP and our roms cause hermes is damn tiny we use 4MB or 6MB
try to use another Explorer to enjoy more speed at dl and or streaming

Wireless Tether DRASTICALLY SLOW, help please

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.

Slow HSDPA Speeds on Gingerbread ROMS

Has anyone noticed this?
Everyone keeps on going on about how great CM7 is, etc.
Its great....BUT ive found that HSDPA is very slow and sometimes very unresponsive.
This is the case on Oxygen, CM7, Redux
Tried every radio and get download speeds of about 0.06 Mbps. (5-7Mbps on WiFi)
So I decided to flash stock rooted ROM (Froyo), and got speeds of 1.5Mbps (9-10Mbps on WiFi) and all is running smoothly...BUT battery life is terrible.
Can anyone confirm this or have any suggestions, I would really like to be back on gingerbread ROM as i find sense too bloated and power hungry.
Edit: I also tried to flash gingerbread roms again, and still same problems exist. once i switched back to stock ROM, I get consistently high speeds.
No problem here, Orange UK. It could be a problem with your carrier maybe and an inconsistency with custom roms. You're forgetting that tests on networks are with the official software so a change in software could do this. Flash a custom rom and ring your carrier. They can do diagnostic tests to confirm it. If they say to send it in, come up with a reason not to.
Sent from CM7
Mine is a little bit different. I think it is better with ginverbread roms (ginger villain 2.0)
Test Date: Apr 22, 2011 7:26:15 am
Connection Type: Hsdpa
Server: Bucharest
Download: 2.57 Mbps
Upload: 1.27 Mbps
Ping: 90 ms
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[Q] CM7 Issues

I know this might not be the correct section, but I don't have enough street cred yet to post in the "dev" forum under the appropriate thread. Anyhow, the CM forums are rather useless in terms of search capability and theres an seemingly very lacking sense of community based on the replies and general trolling I see.
So, I come to you xda-forum gurus.
I'm running decks latest ROM 1.2c CM7 w/Gingerbread. I've used a few of the customs and so far this one gives me nearly everything I've wanted in terms of features, stability, functionality, and speed....nearly.
A couple of things with this ROM (and CM7 in general):
1) Extremely slow USB storage transfer speeds to and from my PC.
When I'm using a CM7 ROM, my transfer speeds to my SDCARD are atrociously slow. I have a class 10 16GB card and I can barely top 1.0 MB/sec. Not such a big deal until I need to sync 10 GB of music. Basically, is there something I'm missing here in terms of patches, tips, tricks, hacks, etc?
2) Very slow signal strength on 3g and reduced signal strength on Wifi (not in a Wimax market).
I basically have gone from a consistent 4 bars to 1 bar of signal and have lost a lot of my signal strength from Wifi as well? I did see some things about this issue CM forums, but found answers.
Any help or direction is appreciated!
I think the data speeds have something to do with AOSP based roms, I have great non-4g speeds on a sense rom and I barely have any data connectivity with AOSP .
As far as usb transfer speeds, I read that could be a kernel issue. You can also try one of the SD Speed Boost like apps to increase the cache size. This may not help a lot, but it could make a difference.
AOSP roms show signal strength differently than Sense roms. It could be that you have the same signal but it's displayed lower, or your speeds could actually be lower. There's a fix for slow 3g speeds floating around, I'll see if I can find it for you. I'm not sure about wifi, though.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
cttwarnock said:
I think the data speeds have something to do with AOSP based roms, I have great non-4g speeds on a sense rom and I barely have any data connectivity with AOSP .
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I see the same thing, any of the Sense ROMs I've used have resulted in "descent" 3G speeds (speed here in Memphis generally sucks regardless). But on CM7 (I've not used MIUI or any other ASOP variations), its bad enough that I can't use any streaming audio applications and browsing in general is really painfully slow. Frankly though I'm more concerned about the USB transfer speeds, as I frequently use my SCARD for file storage for work related file syncing.
Thanks for the validation that its just my phone.
Samwards said:
I see the same thing, any of the Sense ROMs I've used have resulted in "descent" 3G speeds (speed here in Memphis generally sucks regardless). But on CM7 (I've not used MIUI or any other ASOP variations), its bad enough that I can't use any streaming audio applications and browsing in general is really painfully slow. Frankly though I'm more concerned about the USB transfer speeds, as I frequently use my SCARD for file storage for work related file syncing.
Thanks for the validation that its just my phone.
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For 3G, I would recommend trying the fix on a sense rom > http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...aybe-boost-your-3g-speeds-with-a-simple-hack/ ; xda method, just with pictures.
And yes, AOSP show the data strength, not like sense, so you will see 1x, ect, unlike on sense. As for usb transfer speeds, they were shot in the .37 kernels, try using a .38 kernel, or one of the apps the plainjane suggested.
I think its something other than how the 2 types of roms are reporting the speeds.
For instance, I can leave my phone sitting on its dock on my desk and run speedtest in a sense rom, getting around 2Mb/s. When I flash an AOSP rom, while the phone is sitting in the exact same postion, speedtest will only run at 150-200Kb/s.
teh roxxorz said:
As for usb transfer speeds, they were shot in the .37 kernels, try using a .38 kernel, or one of the apps the plainjane suggested.
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Awesome, upgraded to newest Titmat, and Im reading at 12-18 MB/sec now, writing is still a bit wonky, but that helps tremendously. So embarrassing having to wait so long at a customers site for my files to copy.
Samwards said:
Awesome, upgraded to newest Titmat, and Im reading at 12-18 MB/sec now, writing is still a bit wonky, but that helps tremendously. So embarrassing having to wait so long at a customers site for my files to copy.
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As always, they're still being fixed, but glad that it helped a bit.
cttwarnock said:
I think the data speeds have something to do with AOSP based roms, I have great -4g speeds on a sense rom and I barely have any data connectivity with AOSP .
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what radio are u using..? you should try using the latest radio and see if that helps, i get a steady 4-5mb/s dwm on fair coverage

[Q] Slow LTE Tether - Wired & Wireless

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
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
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
voxigenboy said:
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!
zehkaiser said:
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.
JFMFT said:
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?

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