[Q] Really low speeds on wifi - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

When I try to use my wifi connection at home its really really slow. Sometimes it just loads part of the websites or some other it doesnt load at all and I have to refresh it several times so it loads. I also have an iphone and a laptop which dont have this problem at all. Theyre working perfectly fine with my wifi connection.
This only happens with wifi, on 3g it works fine. I havent been able to try more wifi networks to see if this only happens with mine

Are you rooted? Could certainly be a kernel issue.
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AZ FadeOut said:
Are you rooted? Could certainly be a kernel issue.
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Yes its rooted. This is the kernel shown on the about menu
3.0.8-gda6252b
[email protected] #1
SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 13 11:35:09 PDT 2012

To me it shouts out kernel issue. I've had graphical errors on stock where it shows I don't have any signal but everything still pulls up nice and fast. I would reccomend a new rom and or kernel
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It also could be a WiFi issue. I was having WiFi issues with my GNex also that I thought was the phone until I started tweaking my Router settings. Some devices are more forgiving to certain routers. In addition some devices Roam to different AP's much better than others.
I have 2 WiFi AP's in my house to span covereage across 2900sqft. I found that my WiFi was just conflicting with each other causing issues with speed and connection so this is what I did.
My Modem is a TWC Wireless Modem - WiFi turned off.
Router 1 Linksys E4200 is Bridged to TWC Modem it is dual band so I have the 5ghz band set MyHomeAP in mixed mode with a 40Mhz Spread, using 36 as the Channel. The 2.4Ghz band is set to MyHomeAP-N in N only mode with a 40mhz Spread and 11 as the channel. I need a seperate SSID here because it was causing conflicts and I needed a 2.4ghz connection upstairs for my Transformer Prime Tab since it does not support 5ghz radios.
Router 2 Netgear WNR300L with DD-WRT loaded is downstairs on the other side of the house. It is a 2.4 ghz router which I have set to MyHomeAP with a 20mhz spread set to channel 1. This allows my devices that are 5ghz compatible to Roam between each AP without conflicts.
So with all that I am now getting 45 mbs WiFi when I am upstairs and connected to the Linksys and 21 mbps downstairs when I am connected to the Netgear downstairs. The Tab is getting a consistent 15mbps on each router which is acceptable for me. This is an improvement from getting 3mbps anywhere in the else regardless of the closeness to the router or the device being used. I'm now able to maximizesmy use of the WideBand service which gets about 52 mbps on a wired connection most of the time.

The GN has lots of issues with different network gear and a lot of it can't be solved by tweaking. Seems like I've heard the most success stories with netgear. I'm using ubee and trendnet and my wifi isn't great. I get between 5 and 20 mbps and its choppy with a lot of disconnects.

NCguy said:
The GN has lots of issues with different network gear and a lot of it can't be solved by tweaking. Seems like I've heard the most success stories with netgear. I'm using ubee and trendnet and my wifi isn't great. I get between 5 and 20 mbps and its choppy with a lot of disconnects.
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You always have to be careful using multiple Wireless routers in the house, because if they are not setup right you will get consistent disconnects and low speeds. Same thing was happening to me until I really digged in and configured my multiple routers correctly. Check my previous post on how I solved my router issues.

Are you getting good signal when your connected to your wifi

HeCareth said:
You always have to be careful using multiple Wireless routers in the house, because if they are not setup right you will get consistent disconnects and low speeds. Same thing was happening to me until I really digged in and configured my multiple routers correctly. Check my previous post on how I solved my router issues.
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Just one router, the time warner ubee docsis 3.0 modem/router. The rest are trendnet APs at 1,6,11. All with same ssid and security. No interference as checked with wifi analyzer. The wifi just sucks. Not much more you can say except try different gear which shouldn't be necessary. All of my laptops etc work great.

I tried my gnex on other wifi network and it worked well. I tried it again on mine with negative results. Idk what could be wrong, all other devices i have, 2 laptops and 1 iphone work well

survivor_evil said:
I tried my gnex on other wifi network and it worked well. I tried it again on mine with negative results. Idk what could be wrong, all other devices i have, 2 laptops and 1 iphone work well
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What's wrong is the GNs wifi doesn't play nice with all network gear as it should. Just curious, what is your router and APs?

NCguy said:
What's wrong is the GNs wifi doesn't play nice with all network gear as it should. Just curious, what is your router and APs?
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Ok this is my wifi configuration. what could the problem be? My nexus still works like crap on my wifi network

survivor_evil said:
Ok this is my wifi configuration. what could the problem be? My nexus still works like crap on my wifi network
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Is there a reason you are not using "all" foe your basic and transmission rates. I have dd-wrt also and that is set to all for me.
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Is there a reason you are not using "all" foe your basic and transmission rates. I have dd-wrt also and that is set to all for me.
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nothing special i just reset the router to see if that helped but its the same

survivor_evil said:
Ok this is my wifi configuration. what could the problem be? My nexus still works like crap on my wifi network
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Your basic rate is set to 1-2mbs, so don't expect more than that. Change it to 54mbs or whatever the max is and see if it helps.
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EP2008 said:
Your basic rate is set to 1-2mbs, so don't expect more than that. Change it to 54mbs or whatever the max is and see if it helps.
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Even if i change it to 10mb it.doesnt make a difference. As i said before. I have 2 laptops and 1 iphone and all of them work perfectly except the nexus

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WIFI Problems

My wifi if being finicky, like not wanting to connect, or even see my home router, is anyone else having any trouble with wifi?
it must be your router.
Rennat said:
it must be your router.
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that's what i figured, i just thought i'd ask around
Rennat said:
it must be your router.
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no problems here...
I was running it with the following:
SSID broadcast off
WPA2 Personal
Mac filtering
I turned SSID broadcast back on and it works fine now, someone else want to replicate those settings and see if they have problems?
mrono said:
My wifi if being finicky, like not wanting to connect, or even see my home router, is anyone else having any trouble with wifi?
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I am having problems connecting to my wireless router, my Evo is saying I have a "poor signal" at my computer desk but my computer is showing me at 100% signal. I think its a Evo software thing but thats my 2 cents. I don't use my wifi often with my phone any way so no biggie for now.
I also have ssid broadcast off and I cant get it working.
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Hi everybody, So far I love the EVO even without 4g. Anyway after I turned on my ssid I connected okay. I can see the market and find what I want to download. It says downloading but never does. I have downloaded apps with the 3g but I don't have a signal at my home. I always used winmo before and had no problems downloading on my home network. I wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to what I might be missing. I got root okay and have been having a blast but I sure would like to download some more apps while I am at home. Thanks, Rick
SSID broadcast off and no issues for me thus far.
Yes, me too. Sort of.
My Evo shows 1 bar of wifi signal strength at a distance of 8 feet from the router where my iphone shows full bars. I do get decent download speeds using xspeedlabs free but the upload speed seems to cap at 750kbs where the iphone goes over 1mbs with the same test. There is definitely something weird going on.
bendotson said:
My Evo shows 1 bar of wifi signal strength at a distance of 8 feet from the router where my iphone shows full bars. I do get decent download speeds using xspeedlabs free but the upload speed seems to cap at 750kbs where the iphone goes over 1mbs with the same test. There is definitely something weird going on.
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I am having similar results as far as signal strength. Sitting 2 feet away from my router I am only showing one bar of signal strength and getting very slow speeds. All of my other wifi devices (including those that are on the opposite side of the house and downstairs) are getting signals ranging from "good" to "excellent". Something definitely seems to be up with the wifi.....
mrono said:
My wifi if being finicky, like not wanting to connect, or even see my home router, is anyone else having any trouble with wifi?
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I was having wifi issues too. I'm running dd-wrt on my router. Turns out just power cycling the router fixed it. I think I'm going to setup my router to reset weekly.
I get the same issue of having 1 bar of signal strength, regardless of how close I am... even tried on 2 different wireless routers, Linksys-dual band N, and Net gear A/B/G.
I get strong signal from both routers on all other devices, iPhone, iTouch, Touch Pro, Laptops, etc...
I've played with all the settings on the EVO, turning off the mobile data and only having wifi on, changing the encryption settings on the routers... nothing seems to work.
I love the phone, but kinda bummed about this issue.
I have ssid broadcasting turned off and I'm using WPA 2 with no problems.
There is a long, angry thread about this over at HTC's own EVO forum: http://community.htc.com/na/htc-forums/android/f/94/t/2929.aspx
I'm also getting less Wi-Fi performance on the EVO than on other devices in the house.
Using Fresh 1.0.1 rom and also the new Cyanogen rom, with the SSID off, I cannot connect with WiFi, with SSID on, it works fine. Using Cisco/Linksys e2000 router.
Tested with my iPhone with SSID off, it connects no problem. So the problem is not my router.
Is this limitation of EVO?

Wifi wireless N slow speeds when web browsing

I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with this little issue I'm having. I'm running stock EB13 Froyo on my Epic currently. The issue I'm having is that for whatever reason my web browsing speeds while I'm at my house are pretty slow. I've downloaded the speedtest ap and ran 3 seperate tests last night with the following results:
D/L 14.01 Mbps U/L 1.89 Mbps
D/L 14.73 Mbps U/L 1.88 Mbps
D/L 14.13 Mbps U/L 1.82 Mbps
Needless to say, pretty solid speeds. For whatever reason though, when I'm web browsing it seems to crawl along while loading pages. My router is a Linksys WRT610N and I'm broadcasting in B/G/N. My wife's laptop runs on wireless N without any issues, and I've also got a Linksys wireless N gaming router that I've got hooked up to my WDTV that I'm able to stream 1080p DTS files without any hiccups.
Whenever I'm web browsing outside of the house, whether it be 3G/4G or Wifi the pages load up much faster, so I know it's some sort of setting that I need to configure on my home router. Anybody have any ideas?
I'm using Dolphin Browser HD if that helps at all. Thanks in advance for any help or insight!
Same problem except I'm also getting page could not be displayed. This new update has made WiFi virtually unusable. Either it doesn't work or it's slow.
What GHz band are your routers broadcasting in?
my phone does the same thing as well. I get alot of page cannot be displayed as well.
barefaced said:
What GHz band are your routers broadcasting in?
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The 610N is dual-band, but the Epic only supports 2.4ghz.
musclehead84 said:
my phone does the same thing as well. I get alot of page cannot be displayed as well.
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I have been getting tons of this crap too. What happened to everything working? I feel like its a roll of the dice every time I browse
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I have a netgear router and only broadcast wireless N at 2.4 ghz. I'm sure with you broadcastin multiple routers you are getting interference. Also I re boot router once a week to make sure everything is synced up nicely. I'm a black ops gamer.
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Encryption type is sometimes a big issue with devices. Also router channel. Since speedtest shows good speed it seems smaller packets with browsing is issue... likely having many retries
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did any one ever get settings on the 610N to there liking?
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What GHz band are your routers broadcasting in?
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I echo the question. Since the OP is connecting his Epic to the 610N, we can assume it is using one of the 2.4GHz channels. Is the gaming router also 2.4GHZ?
There are only 3 non-overlapping 2.4 GHz channels (1, 6, 11) The others overlap with these 3.
If the OPs routers are using channels 4 & 6, for example, they would definitely interfere with each other. You also need to be concerned with strong signals from neighbors interfering.
Yes, I am a wireless engineer
One thing I have noticed. Is that if utorrent is runing on the LAN (wired) the Epic does not work vary good. Its not that the torrents are hogging all the bandwith. I had it throttled to 100KB max connections was 50 I tryed 40 45 44 I have it at 35 right now.
Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
Not to bring back a thread from the dead (OOOOoooo Zombi thread
Any how i got out my 610N out and was having the same problem. With the xda app sucking over wifi & not working fast and other SLOW wif crazy problems.
I found a FIX & its a NO BRAINER do a 30/30/30 HARD RESET

Anyone else having WiFi issues?

I'm having issues with WiFi staying connected in my house.
Anyone have an idea on what I can do?
Just tossing this out there...
Alot of wireless routers provided by cable companies are limited to 5 devices... my provider actually has 5 listed in their tos..
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And that would make sense, but it's also when I'm on my work's WiFi
What firmware?
Mine works fine. I use wifi sync with winamp and did my initial sync overnight without any errors.
nimdae said:
What firmware?
Mine works fine. I use wifi sync with winamp and did my initial sync overnight without any errors.
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2.3.3 Stock, no root
I've been having wifi issues too. It's connected, but there is no data being sent/received. It's happened on sense, cm7, omfgb. I've tried reseting the phone and the router but nothing has helped. Has anyone found out how to remedy this issue?
I'd love to investigate further but I can't reproduce this problem
Can you describe your wifi setup (router and phone) so I can try to replicate the conditions?
nimdae said:
I'd love to investigate further but I can't reproduce this problem
Can you describe your wifi setup (router and phone) so I can try to replicate the conditions?
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I have an old linksys srx200 router connected to the router Comcast gave me (the black box that runs phone and internet). My phone is a recently gb s-off rooted inc2. I tried sense (stock and virtuous), omfgb, cm7 and they all have the problem so I'm thinking its either my phone or router...
A few posts above talks about having too many computers connected to the router being the problem, which could possibly be my case but hasn't been a problem until a few days ago... I have up to 2 desktops and 2-4 laptops connected at once (yes, I have a big family). I hope all this info helps
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My first step would be to update the firmware on your router. You also states that your linksys srx200 is connected to a Comcast "router" . Do you mean modem or is it a gateway (modem with built in router ) because if the latter, then the dual Nat setup may be causing issues. But with some info we can tackle it.
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My first step would be to update the firmware on your router. You also states that your linksys srx200 is connected to a Comcast "router" . Do you mean modem or is it a gateway (modem with built in router ) because if the latter, then the dual Nat setup may be causing issues. But with some info we can tackle it.
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It's a Comcast modem that also hooks up the home phone line, sorry about the confusion. I have updated the firmware, but linksys has only come out with one firmware update in the years that I have had the router. The update hasn't helped much and the open firmwares like ddrt (if I remember correctly) isn't supported for the modem.
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I have problems with wifi dropping out in my house, too.
Comcast modem, old D-link 524 router, all other electronics have no problems staying connected, down to my old Palm TX.
On the Dinc2, it drops frequently.
I was just noticing this last night.
I'm staying in a hotel and in my room I get 60% signal with my laptop, however on my phone it shows 10% signal and intermittently drops out
anyone else having issues with poor wifi signal?
Never had a problem with intermittent WiFi, would update your firmware.
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Authentication Error

Is anyone getting an authentication error displayed on access points? I get this random on my work/home access point and yes I am close to the access point. I dont think it started doing this until the 4.1.2 update.
Did you try "forget" on your connections and then recreate them?
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Yup, I deleted all and its fixed for a few hours. If I turn wifi off and back on it fix's it for a little while. Its random, but it looks like the S3 and the Note 2 have the issue. I googled it and found other people with the same issues.
Very odd. I'm assuming you're running stock and not a bleeding edge custom rom. Is this any ap, or just one or 2? Ones you control?
I really don't know enough about the spectrums and noise congestion, but if they're ones you can control, use a wifi app that'll show you all the aps and channels in your area. That should help you find a less congested one.
Until someone more knowledgeable chimes in, all I have are ideas. :/
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Same problem
Yea this is really weird. I have a ASUS RT-N66U router with a 2.4 ghz band and a 5ghz band as well as a second router being used as an access point. I have a fairly large house and my first router didn't quite reach some spots. So at first I had the SSID the same for both routers. I was having problems with the setup so I changed the SSID of the access point router and all was well for a couple of weeks. then all of the sudden the RT-N66U router started giving me the Authentication error. So I have tried everything including giving the 5ghz band a diffrent SSID and that worked for the 5ght band. I can access the 5ghz band but still get the authentication error with the 2.4ghz band.
Getting this problem too.
Same Authentication Error Problem
labrat1974 said:
Yea this is really weird. I have a ASUS RT-N66U router with a 2.4 ghz band and a 5ghz band as well as a second router being used as an access point. I have a fairly large house and my first router didn't quite reach some spots. So at first I had the SSID the same for both routers. I was having problems with the setup so I changed the SSID of the access point router and all was well for a couple of weeks. then all of the sudden the RT-N66U router started giving me the Authentication error. So I have tried everything including giving the 5ghz band a diffrent SSID and that worked for the 5ght band. I can access the 5ghz band but still get the authentication error with the 2.4ghz band.
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I have the identical problem as well with the same router and the same phone.
Ernie Adsett
I got this error as well on my RT-N66U and S3. So, is this a Samsung and ASUS issue?
I haven't seen this issue with other phones connecting to my N66U.
I've had this issue as well. Although I am using a belkin router.
I tried the forget this network and still had the issue come up occasionally. I reset my modem and router and haven't had the problem since.
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using 2 routers in the same house is always asking for connection troubles, even if you have one of them set as "access points"; I have a netgear router, and a netgear access point in my large house, and they work just fine; I have set up the access point with a different network name than the actual router, and, when I am in the part of my house, or outside, which is closer to the access point location, I just switch wifi networks on my phone/tablet to the "other" network, and it connects just fine....
Ive gotten it randomly also...
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Wow...same router (RT-N66U), same phone, same problem...!
Although for me it only happens on 5Ghz...I have the strange feeling that this will remain a mystery...!
EDIT: Got sick of this. I've scanned for other 5Ghz networks in my area in there were just 2, very low reception from where I am. Removed WPA2 and now running open with wifi mac filtering. Voila.
same
lightpsycho said:
Wow...same router (RT-N66U), same phone, same problem...!
Although for me it only happens on 5Ghz...I have the strange feeling that this will remain a mystery...!
EDIT: Got sick of this. I've scanned for other 5Ghz networks in my area in there were just 2, very low reception from where I am. Removed WPA2 and now running open with wifi mac filtering. Voila.
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Got same router with note 2 and note 8 on 5 ghz. 2.4 is not an option(exceopt for poor chromecast) as it is flooded with 20 other APs. Only 1 other 5 GHz AP around on different channel with very weak signal. Note 2 is pretty good about staying conencted but somedays note 8 just will not play nice and have to switch to 2.4 GHz SSID. see new FW for outer release 9/11. Will try when i get home.

5GHz Wifi

My phone refuses to connect to my 5GHz wifi, it says authentication error. Anyone else with this problem?
No issues on my Net Gear Nighthawk
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note 4 5ghz wifi not working
I have same problem my note 4 verizon is not connecting to my 5ghz band but working fine with 2.5ghz
i have belkin ac1300 router.
asjassar said:
I have same problem my note 4 verizon is not connecting to my 5ghz band but working fine with 2.5ghz
i have belkin ac1300 router.
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So it's not just me. Hmm.
Yes i think its aome software problem because it worked for me first time only for a 10 mins and then it never connected.
I even tried hard reset but not successfull.
So I tried connecting to it again, and I noticed it keeps losing sight of the wifi connection. It will show my 5GHz network out of range, and then try to connect, then show it out of range for a bit again.
I found a solution go to wifi settings and go to menu and advanced and turn off smart network switch and always allow scanning. And then reset ur modem and router and it should work .
It worked for me and now my 5ghz is working fine.
Mine has worked since I got the phone. With the authentication error, are you positive you've entered the correct key? With the weak signal, have you tried a different channel, maybe some interference going on???
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5 works ok with my asus router and speed went from 13mp/s to 29mp/s ....
fillyo said:
No issues on my Net Gear Nighthawk
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asjassar said:
I found a solution go to wifi settings and go to menu and advanced and turn off smart network switch and always allow scanning. And then reset ur modem and router and it should work .
It worked for me and now my 5ghz is working fine.
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Didn't do anything for me.
mr_cj said:
Mine has worked since I got the phone. With the authentication error, are you positive you've entered the correct key? With the weak signal, have you tried a different channel, maybe some interference going on???
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Yup I'm sure, it's the same password as the 2.4GHz network. Besides that, it works for my laptop and tablet perfectly fine.
I reset my modem and router again and now it worked. Guess it just took some motivation lol.
On 2.4GHz I got like 15-25mbps on my wifi.
Here's 5GHz:
Wish Verizon's LTE wasn't pathetic compared to the competition, especially given how expensive they are.

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