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VERY SLOW WLAN SPEEDS

Can anybody tell me why my WLAN speeds are so slow !!........... Even when I am conected via a 2MB broadband router, I still only get a max speed of around 25kbps on media player. As for conecting to Radio 1 live, well forget it. It just will not conect. Can anyone assist me with this problem please..............
Thanks
Rob

Hi,
Not sure if this will help but maybe worth a try if you haven't already...
Try setting the 'power save' mode slider from its default of 'best battery to 'best performance' (click the wifi icon in the bottom right corner, then change to the settings tab).
Last night I could barely connect to any sites using my WiFi router (with 2mb ADSL), once I changed the setting it was significantly quicker (appeared to be almost broadband speed*).
* Granted, I havent done any bandwidth tests though.
Regards,
Paul

WLAN SPEEDS
I tried that already and it made little difference. I think all that will do is increase the power of the WiFi transmitter so that you get a better conection and can use it further from the router. My LAN Manager says that the signal strength is good right now. So its not realy an issue.
Here is a link for a band width speed tester. Its online so theres nothing to download and it works realy good.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest
SideBp said:
Hi,
Not sure if this will help but maybe worth a try if you haven't already...
Try setting the 'power save' mode slider from its default of 'best battery to 'best performance' (click the wifi icon in the bottom right corner, then change to the settings tab).
Last night I could barely connect to any sites using my WiFi router (with 2mb ADSL), once I changed the setting it was significantly quicker (appeared to be almost broadband speed*).
* Granted, I havent done any bandwidth tests though.
Regards,
Paul
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WLAN SPEEDS
OK I just ran a speed test myself at the web site I posted and here are the results.
Sitting in the Cradle: 402 Kbps
Out of Cradle on Med performance setting: 389 Kbps
Out of Cradle on Full Performance setting: 368 Kbps
So Like I said, very little difference there !!.
By the way, if your trying to run the speed test on the Blue Angel and cant find where the button is to start the test. When you see a small box apear with "Start a personal test" at the top and the description of test type you have selected in the middle. At the bottom of the box, you will see a blank section. Click on that !!!....... For some reason Mobile Internet explorer cant display the buttons correctly. Or at least it cant on mine anyway. but it does all work ok and you can do as many tests as you like for free !!!.

The ultimate fix for WIFI drop-offs

OK, there have been plenty said about various devices having issues of random WIFI drops during good signal conditions.
I have learned long ago that there are some devices that do not play well with legacy Draft N routers and modems connecting to newer WIFI devices that have power save functions.
This issue is primarily with the advanced features within the Modem/Router WIFI features.
Here are the two features that can help with connection drop-offs.
DTIM Interval
Beacon Interval
If you set DTIM Interval to low, you risk flow condition drop-offs. Some people find a value set around 6 to be effective for both gaming and file transfer.
The lower the value the less power is consumed in the WIFI connection. Small devices with smaller batteries need a low value, like 1 to 2. If you have a good sized battery 6 to 8 will work well.
Beacon Interval will create a high level of repeated instances of beacon synchronization, if using WPA security. Which can augment the delay between data stream. If you find yourself in an area of about -80db and drops are noticeable, decreasing the time in between beacon intervals will not allow time to recover. Once authentication breaks, you will need to reset your devices WIFI enable to regain authentication. Changing the interval to 200 to 300 ms will help. But when your interval is set at 1000ms intervals, it will make your issues more problematic.
I keep my numbers one the edge much as possible, so peeps outside my house find connecting extremely difficult at -90db
Many have circumvented the above issues by using WEP or open authentication. Which is only a band aid fix.
Channel congestion can make drop-offs. As it slows your data path and can make extra authentication cycles during recovery.
Before making any changes copy down the original settings for restoring them if needed.
Some apps I am using for my WIFI connection.
WIFI Ace (WIFI Advanced Configuration Editor): Will attach to advanced WIFI hotspots, including none broadcasting SID.
WIFI Fixer: Automatically reconnects during any drop-offs, and will restore connections after sleep cycles.

Wifi connections are driving me crazy

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.

qoncept said:
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

WarCow said:
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.

qoncept said:
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..?

syaoran68 said:
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. :\

qoncept said:
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

wifi and call issues anybody else have these ?

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

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

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

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

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

WiFi Issue

S20 Unlocked from Samsung.com
Carrier: AT&T
Issue:
When on home WiFi network, the S20 does not load images in apps such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. Slows to a complete crawl.
If I test on fast.com, I receive normal home speeds on mobile of 200-400mbps
If I turn off WiFi, performance immediately returns to as expected.
Any ideas?
Router is Netgear XR500
Quality of Service is off.

Did you try a reset of network settings under settings?

mycomputerisjunk said:
Did you try a reset of network settings under settings?
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Just tried that.
Fast.com reported download speed of 500mbps
I was able to download an app at an appropriate speed
It seems to be only Facebook and Instagram that are still showing the issue -- extremely slow load times.
Both work as expected on LTE.

Found this old thread.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/facebook/521201-facebook-slow-over-wifi-galaxy-s6.html
Android System Web Viewer did take forever to update while we set the phone up. I'll see if I can roll that back.
I don't have any issues with any of my other android devices on my router - but I'll also check IPV6 settings.

benharsen said:
Found this old thread.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/facebook/521201-facebook-slow-over-wifi-galaxy-s6.html
Android System Web Viewer did take forever to update while we set the phone up. I'll see if I can roll that back.
I don't have any issues with any of my other android devices on my router - but I'll also check IPV6 settings.
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No luck trying this.
Tried turning IPV6 on - in router settings. No difference. Turned it back off.
System web Viewer had an update. Updated. No difference. Disabled it. No difference.
Those two apps still wildly underperforming on wifi.

Try it on a different wifi connection outside of home? Same results?

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Try it on a different wifi connection outside of home? Same results?
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I tried it on another phone's hot spot and could not replicate the issue.
I guess that means it's a problem with the router settings. Not sure how.

benharsen said:
S20 Unlocked from Samsung.com
Carrier: AT&T
Issue:
When on home WiFi network, the S20 does not load images in apps such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. Slows to a complete crawl.
If I test on fast.com, I receive normal home speeds on mobile of 200-400mbps
If I turn off WiFi, performance immediately returns to as expected.
Any ideas?
Router is Netgear XR500
Quality of Service is off.
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I have the same phone, carrier and use wifi at home as well. No issues, sorry you're having problems....
Maybe a full wipe?

reefur said:
I have the same phone, carrier and use wifi at home as well. No issues, sorry you're having problems....
Maybe a full wipe?
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I'm afraid that might be the next step.

benharsen said:
I'm afraid that might be the next step.
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Hope you sort it out sir, I normally don't get unlocked on ATT due to losing WiFi calling but I get a better signal now and you can just call to get visual voicemail fixed if yours doesn't work right away so I'm loving it....
I'm sure you'll love it too once you get it sorted...

Bringing back zombie thread.
Was a fix found?
My 20+ is having problems with wifi slowing to a crawl after just a few minutes.
Just bought a new router TP-Link AX11000 and it started so I thought it was the router but everything else on wifi in the house gets expected speeds my two 20+'s not so. I think it has to do with WIFI 6. If I stay within 10ft of the router everything is fine after that... I go in my bedroom 30ft away and have -63dbm signal strength and I can run a speed test and get 500mbps down try again and it will start at 500 and slow to around 45 try a 3rd time and and I barely get 4mbps 4th time and it's 0 with signal strength still at -63 on all of the test in the bedroom my upload will be 45mbps.

after a lot of testing with battery settings and things on the phone found out that my slow wifi was due to 2 settings on the router.
first in your router disable WMM, this made my s20+ use like 30mbps max in my case. now list my wifi 5ghz as +800mbps
seconds, disable ipv6 on the router. this made my phone ultra slow to everything. like play store hang on app updates, google drive take forever to load every single photo, like is taking forever to get the first reply from the server.
with that changed now the phone works at full speed on wifi. play store updates are shocking fast.
so lame that a flagship that cost nearly 1 thousand dollars have to disable things externally to work properly. no other phone or device works bad with the previous config of WMM or IPv6. I have a Linksys WRT1900ACS.
Hope they fix it with a software upgrade.