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[Q] What speeds do you get with Wifi Tether application

I just upgraded to a rooted Stock Froyo release (3.26.651.6) and while the 2.0.5-pre07 Android tether works, I don't seem to get the good download speeds when I connect my laptop to it.
So the tether application shows speeds of 4-5 Mbps on the phone screen, but when I wirelessly tether to it and run a speed check on my laptop, i barely get 1Mbps, sometimes even around 500kbps. In fact this problem was even worse when I was on the earlier Android release on the phone. It has improved since the Froyo upgrade, but is nowhere close to the speeds that I would like
Any ideas if this is normal? Or am I missing something here?

what speed test are you using?
I know when I was rooted with 2.1 I was getting around 5-6mbps when using wireless tether with my laptop

2.2 opened rooted 2mbps usb tether 6mbps

Kornsaq said:
what speed test are you using?
I know when I was rooted with 2.1 I was getting around 5-6mbps when using wireless tether with my laptop
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Speed test.net

darth1289 said:
Speed test.net
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I get anywhere from 2Mbps to 6.7 Mbps depending on location. (that's on 4g)

I'm seeing the same thing as darth. Speed tests (the speakeasy one) gives anywhere from 5 to 10 mbps on my phone but on the laptop its around 1 to 1.5. I wonder if encryption has anything to-do with it, I run the WiFi tether app on wpa2 aes with a not-so-short key. Maybe the encryption and the heavier processing slows it down? I'll test without encryption and post the results in a couple of hours.
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ProcessorHog said:
I'm seeing the same thing as darth. Speed tests (the speakeasy one) gives anywhere from 5 to 10 mbps on my phone but on the laptop its around 1 to 1.5. I wonder if encryption has anything to-do with it, I run the WiFi tether app on wpa2 aes with a not-so-short key. Maybe the encryption and the heavier processing slows it down? I'll test without encryption and post the results in a couple of hours.
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The funny thing is if I share my internet connection using USB on 4G to my laptop, the speed is around 5 Mbps. So the slow speed is isolated to the wireless tether app and across all devices I connect to it.

On 3g with wifi tether pre7 i just did 1.7 meg down, and 0.34 meg up.

darth1289 said:
The funny thing is if I share my internet connection using USB on 4G to my laptop, the speed is around 5 Mbps. So the slow speed is isolated to the wireless tether app and across all devices I connect to it.
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Yes, I tried again without encryption and that does not seem to be the slowing factor. 4g tethered using WiFi tether app gives 1mbps download and 200k up. On 3g, the tethering app gives 250k download and 20k up.
When I do the same speed test directly from the phone, it shows 5mbps down and 1mbps up on 4g, and 500kbps down and 50kbps up on 3g. So its definitely the app. But since this is a preview, I'm pretty sure the devs will get around to fixing it before too long.
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Strange issue with Wireless Tether

After I start up Wireless Tether it will download for a while up to around 8 MB then just stall out and not let me download anything else.
I am in 3G roaming and have almost full bars.
What is the deal?

Gentle nudge
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I think I am having a similar issue. Using Toast 3.1.0.1 with the pre.7 tether. Not sure about the 8 MB limit, seems to drop the wifi connection to my laptop very easily.
Need to find out if the tether release has been updated...

Wireless tethering would drop a lot for me with pre7. I finally determined that there were several other wifi networks in my area that were using channel 6 (the default for many devices). Pre7 has a bug that doesn't let you change the channel from the front-end interface. I modified the tether.conf file using root explorer to change the channel to 1 and I don't get disconnected now. Pre8 should be released in a day or 2 with the channel change bug fixed.

gentryh said:
I think I am having a similar issue. Using Toast 3.1.0.1 with the pre.7 tether. Not sure about the 8 MB limit, seems to drop the wifi connection to my laptop very easily.
Need to find out if the tether release has been updated...
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Yeah it seems like I lose my 3g connection or something
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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?

barefaced said:
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

[Q] Really low speeds on wifi

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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HeCareth said:
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

Anyone else tether for gaming?

Now that LTE has been accessible in my neighborhood Id like to try and play BF3 while on my tethered network.
However, Tmobile only allotted me 500 mb per month complementary. I still tether, but only with user agent switched.
Now when I go to play BF3, in battle log it says my computer must be windows vista or above. So its reading the user agent and not letting me play =[
any ideas?

PostMeridianLyf said:
Now that LTE has been accessible in my neighborhood Id like to try and play BF3 while on my tethered network.
However, Tmobile only allotted me 500 mb per month complementary. I still tether, but only with user agent switched.
Now when I go to play BF3, in battle log it says my computer must be windows vista or above. So its reading the user agent and not letting me play =[
any ideas?
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Yeah, stop tethering your phone to play BF3. Buy home internet service.

DizDroid said:
Yeah, stop tethering your phone to play BF3. Buy home internet service.
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Why? Lte is faster than my home isp...
But thanks for your valued input.
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I have to get internet through a satellite. Super slow speeds but I get Tmobile LTE and I get about 40megs down
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Wow. I get 50mb down 10 up and TV for 50 on xfinity. I did use tether when the internet went down for around an hour because there was a really bad thunder storm and it messed with their signal. It was pretty good. My Nat was moderate though. And I only tried it on BO 2
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I've had LTE in my area now for a month or so I would say. Used it the other day to tether my PS3 while I played Black Ops 2. Connection was great, NAT was open I believe, and my connection in the game was always green with 4 bars and zero lag. I eventually hit the free 500MB tethering limit with T-Mobile and upgraded to the 4GB option. It's good to have in a backup situation when the power goes out or I lose home internet.

If you're rooted you can try Wifi Tether:
https://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
I play BF3. The problem will be latency, not bandwidth. From what I've read using wifi tether no on has had a problem yet. Not sure how you're lag will be like. Try it out and let us know if it's playable.

Punchatron said:
If you're rooted you can try Wifi Tether:
https://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
I play BF3. The problem will be latency, not bandwidth. From what I've read using wifi tether no on has had a problem yet. Not sure how you're lag will be like. Try it out and let us know if it's playable.
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Sorry for the late reply, i dont use wifo tether. Tried that and got some very strange cut outs when doing speed tests.
Usb tethering gives me constant speeds. I spent a good month toying with wifi tethering using different adapters and they all had the same results (even an expensive 5ghz 500mbps wireless ncard would give me inconsistent signal.)
I am rooted but didnt have the tethering mod installed until my 500 mb free ran out. Hoping that when it comes back next month i can try to play bf3 again.
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