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ridiculously slow 4G WIFI tethering!

When I measured speed from speedest.net app on my evo with 4g on, I get between 3-4 mbps download speed - and web sites and such load very fast. But when I tether my evo with 4g on and measure the speed on my laptop, I get barely 0.2-0.3 mbps download - and watching streaming content of the laptop is useless - all it does is buffer forever.
Anyone know how to make this work?
Thanks!

No one has a clue?

What tether?
Via EVO on XDA app...

I am speaking about the wireless tether app

The latest version?...ie, one off market?
Via EVO on XDA app...

I am using "2.0.5 pre 8" which came with Fresh 3.2.0.0

I'm using 2.0.5 Pre 9 and with 4G am not really doing any better than you...then again, on the phone it's slow as crap, too.
I don't think it's your wifi tether...i think it's the app giving you false readings. I used to use usb tether (before EViO went to a kernel that wouldn't support it) and the speeds weren't any better.
You can see if it works on your kernel and verify wired vs. wireless speeds...

Bumping because of the same issue
I get 8 to 10 mbit consistantly on my 4G on my speedtest app and transfer speeds when downloading files on to my phone.
However, with Wifi tether I can't get any higher then roughly 1.5 mbps on my laptop. I've tried different channels, different security settings, no security at all... etc.
I do suspect it's a software limitation because the app itself is meant to tether 1x/3g speeds, and 3G itself i'd say averages between 500kbit to 1.5mbit download speeds(I'm talking roughly... could be faster or slower).
So my guess is the developers haven't bothered with the coding to make it work well with faster connections. There's no reason it should be a hardware limitation because our wireless chips are G and N compatible. I've gotten speeds around 17mbps up and down on wifi on my evo.

I think you may be right, as I'm starting to hear from quite a few people that are thinking the same thing. Everyone has crazy speeds with the SpeedTest App, then are lucky to hit 1meg with the computer.
Can someone with the "correct" kernel test the wired tether speeds???
EDIT: Just tried Calk's EViO Beta which worked with wired tether and the speed is just as slow.
The question now is, does the Sprint HotSpot tether at 4G speeds? As I said before, Calk released a framework flash that allows the use of the HotSpot without it on your plan, but it won't work (for anyone) on 4G, and automatically kicks down to 3G...

Fixed the 4G issue!
This was posted by creator of wifi-tether as a possible fix, I tried it and it fixed our issue. I now get full 8mbps download via wifi tether.
To make sure things go smooth, I would make sure wifi tether is NOT running in the background
Go into terminal on phone or adb via computer:
adb shell
su
rm /data/data/android.tether/bin/fixroute.sh
Not sure why this fixes it, but not complaining

bigblueshock said:
This was posted by creator of wifi-tether as a possible fix,
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Thanks for sharing!

Deleting fixroute.sh mad wireless tether lose my internet connection after about 30 seconds. Did he have an updated script?

I had a similar problem. Fixed it by setting my setcpu profile to performance for the time I was tethering.

topdawgn8 said:
Deleting fixroute.sh mad wireless tether lose my internet connection after about 30 seconds. Did he have an updated script?
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Didn't work for me either...
Via EVO on XDA app...

FWIW, WiFi Tether on my Hero would download at 100-120KB/s all day long...on 3G...Possible EVO issue???

Worked for me!
awenthol said:
I'm using 2.0.5 Pre 9 and with 4G am not really doing any better than you...then again, on the phone it's slow as crap, too.
I don't think it's your wifi tether...i think it's the app giving you false readings. I used to use usb tether (before EViO went to a kernel that wouldn't support it) and the speeds weren't any better.
You can see if it works on your kernel and verify wired vs. wireless speeds...
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I downgraded back to 2.0.5 Pre 7 and getting good speeds now! Also added benefit is cpu running cooler.

mtfpcmike said:
I downgraded back to 2.0.5 Pre 7 and getting good speeds now! Also added benefit is cpu running cooler.
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Can you upload the .apk?

glad to hear the developer is working on the issue.
anyone hear of a work around for devices that can not connect to an "ad-hoc" wifi hotspot?
PS3 will not see an "ad-hoc" wifi!

Dan330 said:
glad to hear the developer is working on the issue.
anyone hear of a work around for devices that can not connect to an "ad-hoc" wifi hotspot?
PS3 will not see an "ad-hoc" wifi!
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the latest wifi tether supports infrastructure.
ps3 can detect it.

n1co35 said:
the latest wifi tether supports infrastructure.
ps3 can detect it.
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please elaborate on this...
which version? and how do I set it up?

Problem with Sprint Hotspot (hacked)

I'm running the warm rom with the hotspot hack. it "works" as far as turning on and connecting with my laptop, but my laptop is not finding an internet connection.
wifi tether still works fine though.
i would like to use the hotspot app simply for the home page toggle.
any ideas??
and before anyone mentions it, i did post in the development forum for warm, but 17 pages later, no response.
thanks.

I'm having the same problem on every ROM that has the unlocked Sprint Hotspot. My problem is it connects and my network shows I have an internet connection, but when I open a browser no pages load. I know that doesn't help, but maybe someone knows what's up.

You have to start the hotspot and then cut on 4g breifly and it will work then turn off
4G. 4g does not need to connect the act of searching does the trick. After I did that it now works without going through the process of the 4g trick.

Would somebody be kind to post the hacked hotspot .all file?
Thanks!
Sent From My HTC Evo 4G Using Tapa Talk Pro!

Same problem here. Computer connects wireless to EVO but there is no internet connection. I read countless threads about this, and tried so called remedies such as toggling Air Plane mode on/off, updating profile and PRL under system updates. Seriously, we shouldn't have to go through all these crazy steps just to get an app to work

well why isnt the 4g hack part of it working as soon as i turn on the hacked hotspot it kicks back to 3g if i was using 4g before turning on the hotspot app

It's a bug with the Evo 4G and the hotspot that's never been fixed. You need the wireless tether app (and root of course) for wireless 4G.
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[Q] Evo 4G Wifi Tether Extremely Slow on 4G Signal

I've been tethering my Evo 4G for about a year now and all of a sudden, a few days ago, I noticed my WiFi tether speeds dramatically decreased, especially when 4G is turned on. When I run speedtests directly on my Evo 4G I would get an average of 6 Mbps download and 1.4 Mbps upload. When I run speedtest.net on my laptop that is WiFi tethered I would get an error "Configuration Load Failed" and my browsing is extremely slow. I tried my desktop computer and got the same error message and dialup like browsing speeds. I tried tethering my iPad and another Evo 4G and the speedtest app resulted in ridiculously low speeds like 0.04Mbps download but a normal 1.4 Mbps upload speed.
I've been tethering my Evo 4G with 3 devices on a daily basis and used to get an average of 3 Mbps download and 1.4 Mbps upload speeds at my office. Is it possible that the built-in WiFi router is defective now?
A couple of other unusual changes that I noticed within the past few days:
- My 4G speed on the phone itself is faster now at my office. I used to average 2-3Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload at work every day. Now I've been clocking at an average of 6 Mbps download and 1.45 upload. Maybe Sprint improved service in my area?
- I checked my latest Sprint bill and noticed I used an unusual and huge amount of 4G data last month. I used to average 2-3GB of data per month but this September I used 12.2GB. I was shocked when I saw that. I don't think I'm being throttled because my phone is still running fast on 4G.
- My billing cycle starts every 3rd of the month (about the same time the slow WiFi tether problem started)
- I started getting "Low Internal Storage Space" messages
I've been searching other threads with Slow WiFi Tethering problems and so far I've done the following in attempt to troubleshoot and still got the same slow speeds:
- Wiped Cache Partition and Wiped Dalvic Cache using ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.0.5. I read somewhere in the forums that this may increase 4G speeds. This did free up some memory and cleared up my "Low Internal Storage Space" message.
- Moved the 'fixroute.sh' file to another location (as instructed from another thread)
- Uninstalled and reinstalled WiFi Tether 2.0.5 (been using that since last year), WiFi Tether 2.0.7. (Same results), and WiFi Tether 3.1. Beta 6 (Does not work)
- Tried 4G at home and friend's house about 5 miles away and got the same sluggish results.
I'm wondering if anyone else has a similar problem where their WiFi tethering just stopped working as fast as it used to and what did they do to fix it? Is this a hardware problem?
By the way, I'm on a rooted stock 2.2 ROM, Pri 1.40_003
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Update:
My phone is still suffering from slow 3G/4G wireless tether today in Brooklyn, NY with 0.08 Mbs down / 1.76 Mbs up.
This past Saturday I did notice that while I was in South Amboy, NJ, I was able to wireless tether 4G signal at about 2.16 Mbps down / 0.73 Mbps up. Speedtests were about the same on the phone itself and on my laptop. Why was I able to tether faster there made me even more puzzled and ruled out that my phone's built in wifi router is defective.
I'm hoping I can get this fixed soon. I have no clue what else I can do to get my wireless tethering back up to speed...

Update:
2 days ago I followed instructions on how to fix download speeds by editing the phone's HTTP PD Proxy Port & HTTP PD Proxy Address.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922978
After applying the changes I instantly got my WiFi tether speeds back! I ran speed tests on my ipad and was able to get as high as 5 Mbps down and 1.4 Mbps up. I waited until the next morning to try it at work (where I mainly tether) and to my disappointment my speeds were back to slow 0.1 Mbps down and normal 1.5 Mbps up. I checked my proxy settings to see if they reverted back but nothing changed. I then went back home and found that my tether speeds were slow there as well. This was really bothersome! I then decided to give up for now and just tether on 3G for now.
This morning I stumbled across another thread on filterproxy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966418
I followed the instructions and was successful in tethering at 4G speeds! Whew! My speedtest's results:
Ping 353 (This increased dramatically. I normally get 75)
Download Speed 5.14 Mbps
Upload Speed 1.33 Mbps
I'll keep running speedtests though out the day and see anything changes. Hopefully this filterproxy solution will hold up. It's an extra step to configure my browsers to use the proxy whenever I tether but I won't complain because I got my 4G speeds back (For now).
My question for now is... How come I was able to run wifi tether without all these problems for over a year and then all of a sudden run into these problems?
I hope this helps anyone else who has slow tethering over 4G problems.

plz help with 4g tethering

Hello,
I have the epic 4g touch rooted with starburst rom. I installed android wifi tether app and I am able to connect to the wifi from laptop, but i cant actually browse to any websites. I can ping from cmd prompt to sites. When I use sprint hotspot everything works fine. Also is there an app that will let me tether at 4g speed?

hshaik1109 said:
Hello,
I have the epic 4g touch rooted with starburst rom. I installed android wifi tether app and I am able to connect to the wifi from laptop, but i cant actually browse to any websites. I can ping from cmd prompt to sites. When I use sprint hotspot everything works fine. Also is there an app that will let me tether at 4g speed?
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Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?

jasone4gt said:
Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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I wanted to tether at 4g speed, I thought I cant do that with sprint hotspot, also I have the unlimited data plan, but I am not sure if sprint hotspot costs money.

jasone4gt said:
Is there a reason why you want to use the wifi-tether app and not the sprint hot-spot?
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3rd party tethering apps (ie, wifi tether, usb EasyTether, bluetooth tether) are not subjected to the 5GB Hot Spot Sprint limitation. The data used by these apps are seen as "phone data" which is unlimited, whereas Hot Spot data is limited to 5GB with overage charges/fees.
Am I right?
Plus... it's bad enough having the phone run on 4G now you want it to act like a wireless router transmitting over wifi to tether a laptop. HOT HOT HOT
I think 4G tethering is most efficient and "coolest" in temperature over USB Tethering. If you must tether wirelessly, then Bluetooth is probably better than wifi. Not as big of a battery drain.

ctbearz said:
3rd party tethering apps (ie, wifi tether, usb EasyTether, bluetooth tether) are not subjected to the 5GB Hot Spot Sprint limitation. The data used by these apps are seen as "phone data" which is unlimited, whereas Hot Spot data is limited to 5GB with overage charges/fees.
Am I right?
Plus... it's bad enough having the phone run on 4G now you want it to act like a wireless router transmitting over wifi to tether a laptop. HOT HOT HOT
I think 4G tethering is most efficient and "coolest" in temperature over USB Tethering. If you must tether wirelessly, then Bluetooth is probably better than wifi. Not as big of a battery drain.
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hey so i dont have bluetooth on my laptop.. i just use it at work on my laptop to stream music, netflix etc. so which thrid party app would be recommended for 4g. I get great 4g signal at my office. Also i get really really crappy speed with usb tethering like 069 dwn and .65 up

what version of wifi tether are you using?
I'm using v3-beta-6. I can connect using 4g, browsing websites and such. But for some reason, the down steam speeds are capped at ~0.7Mbs when I run a speed test. On my phone, I get 10Mbs down. I know its using 4g because the ping time is much lower and my upload stream is 1.5Mbs.
On 3g, i'm only getting .85 Mbs down and 0.5Mbs up

hshaik1109 said:
hey so i dont have bluetooth on my laptop.. i just use it at work on my laptop to stream music, netflix etc. so which thrid party app would be recommended for 4g. I get great 4g signal at my office. Also i get really really crappy speed with usb tethering like 069 dwn and .65 up
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Easytether app is what I use to tether over uab. works amazingly well with no slow down. I also use wifi tether beta 6 but not very often because it gets hot. Speeds are super fast for me over 4G USB tethering, like 8-10mbps.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

i have the sprint hotspot hack working on my phone. that is the only reason i have root and stuff done to it. have to admit i have not used it yet, but my wifes nook color and my galaxy 10.1 sees it and it works great for the quick test i did.i needed infrastructure and got sick of fighting wifi teather(?)
[ACS][Mod][EK02][EL13][EL26][Deodex][Odex]Hotspot Mod Now With 4G!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394371
works with el29, just follow the download link.
hope this helps

ctbearz said:
Easytether app is what I use to tether over uab. works amazingly well with no slow down. I also use wifi tether beta 6 but not very often because it gets hot. Speeds are super fast for me over 4G USB tethering, like 8-10mbps.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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ok i am going to try easytether assuming i can get it from market. i tried barnicle tether as well and i get ping replies from lets say google.com. I still cant browse. I just think its so slow the sites times out. I am going to try the easy tether and see how that works.

s9amme said:
what version of wifi tether are you using?
I'm using v3-beta-6. I can connect using 4g, browsing websites and such. But for some reason, the down steam speeds are capped at ~0.7Mbs when I run a speed test. On my phone, I get 10Mbs down. I know its using 4g because the ping time is much lower and my upload stream is 1.5Mbs.
On 3g, i'm only getting .85 Mbs down and 0.5Mbs up
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I have tried 3 of the newest version from their site. All of them I get the same thing. It connects and i can ping and everything but none of the websites open. I tried using sprint hotspot (which only works at 3g) and i get about 1.2 dwn and .7up. I want to get the full 4g speed

hshaik1109 said:
I have tried 3 of the newest version from their site. All of them I get the same thing. It connects and i can ping and everything but none of the websites open. I tried using sprint hotspot (which only works at 3g) and i get about 1.2 dwn and .7up. I want to get the full 4g speed
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I am a little confused because I see the link posted for the 4g hotspot fix which has been out for quite some time now. Also as far as it causing issues with Sprint you can rest assure if that was the case it would be posted all over this community. I am not sure why your phone is not working properly with the wifi tethers but I can assure you that Sprint Hotspot on our phone works quite lovely. Also the data usage restrictions do not apply for phones but for actual Hotspot devices. Please go to the link listed above flash the hotspot mod and enjoy life..... It works I am on it right now....

hshaik1109 said:
ok i am going to try easytether assuming i can get it from market. i tried barnicle tether as well and i get ping replies from lets say google.com. I still cant browse. I just think its so slow the sites times out. I am going to try the easy tether and see how that works.
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I just tried easytether. Installed it from market, followed direction and got it working. I got 8.17mb dwn and 1.34mb up. I am going to keep playing with it. Thanks everyone for helping out appreciate it.

playya said:
I am a little confused because I see the link posted for the 4g hotspot fix which has been out for quite some time now. Also as far as it causing issues with Sprint you can rest assure if that was the case it would be posted all over this community. I am not sure why your phone is not working properly with the wifi tethers but I can assure you that Sprint Hotspot on our phone works quite lovely. Also the data usage restrictions do not apply for phones but for actual Hotspot devices. Please go to the link listed above flash the hotspot mod and enjoy life..... It works I am on it right now....
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Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.

hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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No prob man you got it working so rock on!

hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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you're welcome enjoy your tethering!

hshaik1109 said:
Actually the title says "plz help with 4g tethering". I had it working with sprint hotspot as well but not at 4g speed. I had tried other app android wifitether and barnacle with no luck. Thanks to ctbears I got easy tether working with 8mbdwn/1.34 up.
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I'm not sure what hot spot thread you were in but the hot spot hack works on 3g and 4g. And it reads now with 4g not help with 4g... I've used it on both ek02 and el29 with no issues. I hardly ever use sprints crappy 3g and I'm tethering fine. Also take into consideration the hot spot is infrastructure and can be access by more than just computers unlike the tether apps on the market which all are ad hoc...
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RayTrue04 said:
I'm not sure what hot spot thread you were in but the hot spot hack works on 3g and 4g. And it reads now with 4g not help with 4g... I've used it on both ek02 and el29 with no issues. I hardly ever use sprints crappy 3g and I'm tethering fine. Also take into consideration the hot spot is infrastructure and can be access by more than just computers unlike the tether apps on the market which all are ad hoc...
Edit: I just realized somebody posted the link to the hot spot hack and it clearly says it has 4g. I'm done with this thread... LOL!
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA App
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Meant to edit my 1st post and I quoted myself.. Wow I must be smoking some good ish!!!

I have Calk 2.8.1 which supports sprint 4g hotspot. But in reality, I can never get download speed past the 3g speed. Upload is fast but download seems to be capped to 3g speed a confirmed by other users. EasyTether blows them all away with 4g speed of 8-10 Mbps. But of course it is not wireless and does not support infra structure mode.

Here's what I did to get full 4g speed while tethering via wifi..
Go to market and install filter proxy..
Open application, enable it and remember port number (Default is 8000)
Start wifi tethering..
Setup proxy in your browser, point it to your phone's ip address and port 8000 (if you use default)
Do this for http, https and ftp..
And you are all set.. Test your speed.

osva said:
Here's what I did to get full 4g speed while tethering via wifi..
Go to market and install filter proxy..
Open application, enable it and remember port number (Default is 8000)
Start wifi tethering..
Setup proxy in your browser, point it to your phone's ip address and port 8000 (if you use default)
Do this for http, https and ftp..
And you are all set.. Test your speed.
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I can't seem to find the exact app. Will this work with Sprint Hotspot WIFI tethering or just the 4G Android Wifi Tether.
I just tested Android WifiTether 3.1beta 6 and it seems to pass the full 4g speed to connected device. I am losing 10% or less in 5 tests.

[Q] slow wifi tether speeds - mikg 3.11

Hi, hoping someone here can help with this issue…
I have read through the Q&A and tried the fixes mentioned with only one working – the proxy server setting posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=966418
My problem is that prior to this rom, no fix was necessary – wifi tether on 4g was as fast as the speeds I was getting on the phone itself. Now I am lucky if I break 200 kBs /sec tethered (w/o the fix). And this fix only works for surfing and downloads via the browser. I still get the same crappy speeds if I am dl a torrent.
I am running MikG 3.11 – no mods, themes, or kernels. Just the plain rom. Using Amron recovery and wiped everything before install. No partition. I used to run Konis III, then the Konis IV and both worked fine with wifi tether (2.0.7) “out of the box”.
I’ve tried several different versions of wifi tether, ran the command to remove the routefix.sh , cleared the dalvik-cache, all with no luck. Have updated radio, prl, wimax, etc, and updated my profile. I read somewhere about unlocking wireless n, so I am about to give it a try, but hoping maybe someone here has an idea. I see most of the posts are older, so maybe there is something easy I am missing.
Tia for any help.
nurvus

I never really had any luck with the tethering apps or unlocked sprint hotspot. They were all fairly slow for me. The only rom that had great tethering (built in) was CM7. For some reason, Sense roms never tethered well for me.

Yeah it turns the 4g radio off when you turn on the the Sprint hotspot use this
http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...ail?name=wifi_tether_v3_1-beta12.apk&can=2&q=
I use the Jan build so I haven't tried the new but they all have worked flawlessly on 4g
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA

I don't use the hotspot, only wifi tether for 4g. i've tried many versions with no luck.
trukenx, are you on a sense rom? do you get full 4g speeds? i'm just a bit frustrated because it used to work on Konis (sense rom), and then not for mikg 3.11. I falshed back to konis and now that won't work properly either (meaning i won't get full 4g speeds while tethered - i can tether, just at way reduced speeds ).
i'll keep trying other builds of wifi tether. Evocm7, do you get full 4g speeds when tethered on cm7?
thanks again
nurvus

nurvus said:
i'll keep trying other builds of wifi tether. Evocm7, do you get full 4g speeds when tethered on cm7?
thanks again
nurvus
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I was never able to test tethering with 4g since Sprint scrapped WiMAX before they brought it to my area. However, 3g tethering was much faster with cm7's built in tethering than an app or unlocked hotspot on a sense Rom so I would assume the same would go for 4g. I do not have my EVO or Sprint anymore to test in an area with WiMAX. Just couldn't stand sprints internet anymore. Miss my EVO though
Sent from my ADR6425LVW using xda premium

ad blocker maybe? i know it slows down 4g on the phone itself

great point with the adblocker, it could be limiting the data pass through on the tethering also i would wipe the data on the currect hotspot or back up and completely uninstall it also check the settings on other tethering app open garden was out and pretty much mirrored the free WiFi tether code... and lastly check the setting and firewall of the device you are using make sure that is also not blocking or limiting the network speeds of you tethering connections.. eg port blocking, bandwidth throttling, etc.

trukenx said:
great point with the adblocker, it could be limiting the data pass through on the tethering also i would wipe the data on the currect hotspot or back up and completely uninstall it also check the settings on other tethering app open garden was out and pretty much mirrored the free WiFi tether code... and lastly check the setting and firewall of the device you are using make sure that is also not blocking or limiting the network speeds of you tethering connections.. eg port blocking, bandwidth throttling, etc.
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Thanks, but no luck. Odd that it used to work fine, then all of sudden not anymore. Well, using the proxy settings I can get good speeds via the browser. Any settings for utorrent to get the same speeds? I tried using the same settings posted for the proxy fix, but no dice...
thanks again.