Slow wifi/download speeds? - Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A

Testing with Speedtest, I'm getting around 18-19000 kbps on my S3. On my N7, I'm getting around 4800 kbps. That's a huge difference. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I'm getting 5700. I'm on the slim ROM. Likely that won't fix your problems. I wouldn't be able to tell you if it is router based, distance or hardware.
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I think I fixed it for now. I hit "forget" on the network I was connected to and reconnected. Speeds seem to be normal now and hopefully it stays that way.

Spoke too soon. The wifi connection seems to degrade after awhile. I tested it again and it was back to around 5000 kbps. Disconnected and reconnected to the same network and it's back up to normal speeds of around 18000 kbps.
Anyone else experiencing this?

Using speedtest.net via their Android app, I get the same speed that I see on their app/website from other devices on the same network tested just before or after the Nexus 7. This is true for me when connected to 25Mbps fiber hard line and an EDGE mobile network shared via mobile hotspot.

Strange. Maybe the wifi radio in my unit is a dud. It's fine right after I connect to a network but it seems to slow down by around 75% after awhile.

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10MBps via WiFi

Strange, but my friend has 50Mbit broadband. I did a Speedtest.net on his computer and got 35Mbps as a result. I did the same speedtest on my phone via wifi and it couldn't get past 10mbps (1MB/s) Which is strange as Wireless G is 54MBps, and there were no other devices connected Wirelessly.
Speedtest does not measure speed of your wifi LAN. 54Mbps is max wifi local speed, not the speed at which internet data is actually transferred. So speedtest.net must not show 54Mbps.
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Phones are slower than computers while processing the received internet data. That would have caused it to show less speed. IMO 10Mbps is still pretty good for a mobile device with network of 802.11g class.
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Phone's are not slower at processing the data from the internet, that's just stupid. It's a simple measurement of speed. And I wasn't measuring the LAN speed, I wanted to measure the speed the phone got via Wi-Fi when connected to a 50Mbit source. The speed hits a virtual roof at 1MB/s and backs off. As in the speed leaps from 0kbs to 800kbs in seconds and works up to 1024kbs the drops back to around 800kbs and slowly works back to 1000kbs but the test ends before this happens and the speed is registered as around 8Mbit.
Even when uploading using Wi-Fi File Explorer the max rate attainable is 10Mbit (1MB/s) even if the network is Wireless G (54Mbps) or Wireless N (150Mbps). Now this is a running a Sensation ROM (RCMix S v2.0) which has updated the Wi-Fi to Wireless N.
Now, my point is, 10Mbps is a good speed, you're not wrong, but why place a Wireless G card into the phone if it will only ever see Wireless B speeds? It wastes radio frequency by being on the 2.4 GHz range when it won't fully utilise all of that. Just seems daft to me. I'm sure a tablet connected to a 50Mbit source would receive closer than my Desire.
I have some CCNA certifications under my belt, so I'm adept at networking, I just thought either my phone was a problem or it was a design. Like you say, 10Mbit isn't to be sniffed at.

Laptop gets 50mbps down, GN2 only 25?

So, not having run a speedtest on my laptop in a while, I actually thought my roommate was lying to me when he said we should be getting faster internet. Apparently he's not. Question being, with the speeds people are pulling on LTE, why can't I pull the same speeds from my wifi on my laptop as my GN2? My laptop is getting 50mbps down, while my Note tops out around 25mbps although yesterday I pulled a couple over 30mbps which has never happened before. Can anyone explain why I'm topping out like that when so much more is capable?
It can be a number of factors, buildings , wind , weather, static interference, anything could be a factor. It won't always be consistent.
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horr1blek1tten said:
It can be a number of factors, buildings , wind , weather, static interference, anything could be a factor. It won't always be consistent.
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Those factors have nothing to do with wifi or why my phone wont go over 25mbps when it can go way higher than that.
It could be the type of wifi antenna that we have on the phone. Max speed is achieved using MIMO streams which required multiple wifi antennas. I suspect that GN2 wifi have only one antenna, one stream up or down.
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It could be the type of wifi antenna that we have on the phone. Max speed is achieved using MIMO streams which required multiple wifi antennas. I suspect that GN2 wifi have only one antenna, one stream up or down.
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Just seems odd that it maxes out at that speed on wifi yet with LTe its capable of double that. Does anyone else get more than 25mbps on their wifi?
Mobile app might not use as much data. Not as much time to optimize the connection and really fly.
The pc site may be allowed more bandwidth to get a speedy connection with.
My two cents.
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LTE and wifi are not using the same antenna. MINO is the basic for wifi (N) to achieve higher speed. If you go out and by wireless adaptor. Usually there 2 type of Wifi (N) offer 150N and 300N. The 150N has only one attenna, and the 300N usually has at least 2 or more.
So... still curious, what are others getting on their home wifi?
What is your link speed. My usually at home SD shows 39 or 52 mbit but I have seen 72 too. I dont have internet service fast enough to see if phone is the bottleneck.
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darekz said:
What is your link speed. My usually at home SD shows 39 or 52 mbit but I have seen 72 too. I dont have internet service fast enough to see if phone is the bottleneck.
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When I look at the network in the task manager on windows I believe its actually like 130? Im at work now, have to check when I get home? Is that the correct way to find out?
computer - 32
phone - 27
At home I have 40/20MB and on my phone I get 38/19 at work I have 100/100MB and on my phone I get 85/80MB.
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So my link speed right now is actually 144 mbps, though during busy times it might go down to 130. It definitely seems like we are supposed to have better internet because I remember a couple months ago it was only 72. Anyways, what exactly am I doing wrong? Shouldn't I be getting even better than 50mbps on my laptop, at least? Also, my router came from Comcast, do I need to upgrade it to get the full effect or are my laptop and phone somehow limited? At home I'm getting better than 50 on my laptop so shouldn't I be getting 35 or 40 then, no problem, on my Note? It would be aggravating if Comcast was charging me for faster internet but not telling me I needed a new modem to take advantage of it. Actually, more like stupid than aggravating.
tony yayo said:
So my link speed right now is actually 144 mbps, though during busy times it might go down to 130. It definitely seems like we are supposed to have better internet because I remember a couple months ago it was only 72. Anyways, what exactly am I doing wrong? Shouldn't I be getting even better than 50mbps on my laptop, at least? Also, my router came from Comcast, do I need to upgrade it to get the full effect or are my laptop and phone somehow limited? At home I'm getting better than 50 on my laptop so shouldn't I be getting 35 or 40 then, no problem, on my Note? It would be aggravating if Comcast was charging me for faster internet but not telling me I needed a new modem to take advantage of it. Actually, more like stupid than aggravating.
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Yes you will always loose some throughput over wireless unless you have a beast of a router but plugged in with the hardwire should give you full speed. I would test by hard wiring to the router with your laptop and running a speed test then hard wire to the modem and do a speed test. If both router and modem are the same. Then its a wireless issue.
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gforceriders said:
Yes you will always loose some throughput over wireless unless you have a beast of a router but plugged in with the hardwire should give you full speed. I would test by hard wiring to the router with your laptop and running a speed test then hard wire to the modem and do a speed test. If both router and modem are the same. Then its a wireless issue.
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Well, I'm obviously not going to hardwire my laptop or Note. Would simply spending 50 bucks on a router from best buy, also avoiding a rental fee from comcast, improve my optimal speeds for my laptop and N2?
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Well, I'm obviously not going to hardwire my laptop or Note. Would simply spending 50 bucks on a router from best buy, also avoiding a rental fee from comcast, improve my optimal speeds for my laptop and N2?
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That's just to trouble shoot if it is your router or modem that is bad so you don't buy a new one when that was not the problem.
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That's just to trouble shoot if it is your router or modem that is bad so you don't buy a new one when that was not the problem.
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Well it's just the normal router that comcast gave us but I believe this was actually the second time we've updated so couldn't it be possible our comcast issued router is outdated? I've never been able to get better on any public wifi. I've just always had this creeping feeling that my account is just old enough to be on a weird plan where I am throttled overall no matter where I'm at opposed to other people. I've just never been able to duplicate the speeds on any phone that other people in my same exact area have. Like I'm handicapped for some reason., I mean, I basically get the same speeds on my N2 that I got on my Sensation, if not lower sometimes, and that just makes no damn sense whatsover. Don't we have a kikass radio over the Sensation?
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So, not having run a speedtest on my laptop in a while, I actually thought my roommate was lying to me when he said we should be getting faster internet. Apparently he's not. Question being, with the speeds people are pulling on LTE, why can't I pull the same speeds from my wifi on my laptop as my GN2? My laptop is getting 50mbps down, while my Note tops out around 25mbps although yesterday I pulled a couple over 30mbps which has never happened before. Can anyone explain why I'm topping out like that when so much more is capable?
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I'm seeing similar to what you're seeing. I just had Verizon replace my router with a new Actiontec MI424WR which has gigabit & 802.11n. I have FiOS 50/25.
On a laptop running Windows 7 with an Intel 6300n wireless adapter one room away from the router I get 48-55 down. Sitting next to the laptop with the GN2 running ParanoidAndroid 3.15 with the LTE updated modem I get no more than 20 down. If I hold the phone 12 inches from the router in the other room, my Speedtest result hits as high as 33 down. If I take the laptop into the room and run the test next to the router, I consistently see 58 down.
Edit: Prior to getting my router replaced, I had the old Actiontec with 802.11g and if I recall, the laptop & GN2 both got around 12-15 down. Never better. Replacing the router made a huge difference but the laptop saw a high max down.

WiFi Speed Slow

I have 45 Mbps WiFi service here at the house and can verify this over and over with speed tests on my computer and they continually report 40-45 Mbps consistently. On my HTC One I only see like 12-20 Mbps at most when connected to the same WiFi and the same distance to the router. My buddies iPhone sees the full bandwidth of the wireless connection. Has anyone else experienced this? Fixes? I am not rooted and completely stock other than apps.
I have 50+ internet service and have no issues maxing it out with my phone. Have you disabled the "Wifi oltimization" under the advanced settings of wifi? If not, try that, mine is unchecked. Note that having it unchecked does use more power.
Here are my speed test results. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/691833801
I am rooted, but haven't done any tweaking to wifi.
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I have 50+ internet service and have no issues maxing it out with my phone. Have you disabled the "Wifi oltimization" under the advanced settings of wifi? If not, try that, mine is unchecked. Note that having it unchecked does use more power.
Here are my speed test results. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/691833801
I am rooted, but haven't done any tweaking to wifi.
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I had it enabled on my phone. I disabled it and checked the speed. Started off at 23 Mbps then throttled back to 16 Mbps. My Wife has the same phone and I checked her's. She gets the same results. I checked my work laptop right now (Window 7 machine) and got 42 Mbps. I checked my Macbook Pro and got 40 Mbps. Something with these phones isn't allowing the full speed. What doesn't make sense is the fact iPhones work great.
I have Comcast 50 download speed an all 3 of my HTC ones get 55+ always an my hardline devices get 60.
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I have 45 Mbps WiFi service here at the house and can verify this over and over with speed tests on my computer and they continually report 40-45 Mbps consistently. On my HTC One I only see like 12-20 Mbps at most when connected to the same WiFi and the same distance to the router. My buddies iPhone sees the full bandwidth of the wireless connection. Has anyone else experienced this? Fixes? I am not rooted and completely stock other than apps.
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I don't know if you found a solution, but I stumbled upon one tonight...I was having the same issue. The solution sounds weird, but go to settings>location and turn location services off...I did that and instantly hit the speeds my Comcast service advertises. Haven't played around with the different location services settings yet, though.
Edit: I just toggled it off and back on and I'm still getting much better results.
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I don't know if you found a solution, but I stumbled upon one tonight...I was having the same issue. The solution sounds weird, but go to settings>location and turn location services off...I did that and instantly hit the speeds my Comcast service advertises. Haven't played around with the different location services settings yet, though.
Edit: I just toggled it off and back on and I'm still getting much better results.
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Nice! Thanks for the heads up. I will give this a try when I get home.
Went to Settings>Location and then turned off "Access to my location" which disabled everything. Went and did a speed test following this and there was no change. Not sure what is going on.
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Went to Settings>Location and then turned off "Access to my location" which disabled everything. Went and did a speed test following this and there was no change. Not sure what is going on.
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Ah dang. I wonder why it worked for me...I'm on a 4.4 Rom so I have the on/off toggle at the top right of the location screen...dunno if that makes a difference.
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brholt6 said:
Ah dang. I wonder why it worked for me...I'm on a 4.4 Rom so I have the on/off toggle at the top right of the location screen...dunno if that makes a difference.
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I just hard reset my phone after taking the update to 4.4.2 the other night. This resolved nothing. I did do a speed test and it went to 28 mbps down then throttled back to 15 mbps. I am not sure what the hell is going on here. Only other thing I will try is hooking up my old Wireless N router and see if that communicates better with the phone. If it does then it is something with this new router from AT&T.
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I just hard reset my phone after taking the update to 4.4.2 the other night. This resolved nothing. I did do a speed test and it went to 28 mbps down then throttled back to 15 mbps. I am not sure what the hell is going on here. Only other thing I will try is hooking up my old Wireless N router and see if that communicates better with the phone. If it does then it is something with this new router from AT&T.
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Flashed a new Rom and had the same issue. Location services didn't work either...reset my router (it's a pretty crappy one) and that did the trick. Do you have a gateway for uverse? I would definitely put it in bridge mode and hook your router up to it if it is. That's what our IT guy told me to do with my set up and it seems to have better range etc...it's just that I have a POS router hooked up haha.
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Flashed a new Rom and had the same issue. Location services didn't work either...reset my router (it's a pretty crappy one) and that did the trick. Do you have a gateway for uverse? I would definitely put it in bridge mode and hook your router up to it if it is. That's what our IT guy told me to do with my set up and it seems to have better range etc...it's just that I have a POS router hooked up haha.
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I reset my old Router (Belkin N+) and hooked that up (used to have my old Uverse gateway hooked up this way) and did a speed test. Same results as before. From what I gather bridge mode isn't enabled on this gateway. It is the new Bonded Pair Modem for use with their Power (45 Mbps) internet service. This is really frustrating the hell out of me.
I was getting the same issue as you are but the only difference is that my fiance's HTC One stock versus mine being rooted stock she was pulling in higher speeds when connected to the same WiFi, when I would start the test it would start out strong and then throttle back down somewhere between 6-9 Mbps when my plan is 50Mbps download and she would be getting 40+ easily ? my has started to catch up now but it's not really consistent. I believe it maybe something to do with my router cause I was at my friends house who also has Comcast and it was pulling faster speeds. But my laptop at home is having no issues with download speeds. This is my most recent speed test I just did about 5 mins ago.
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/744622538
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Ended up getting Verizon to let me dump the HTC One and go back to my Galaxy S4. I initially had them allow me to switch from the S4 to the One but now I got them to go back. OMG what a difference. Data is 10X faster on 4G and WIFI hits the full 45mbps of my IWIFI at home. No changes to the router, no resets, just a new different phone.
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Ended up getting Verizon to let me dump the HTC One and go back to my Galaxy S4. I initially had them allow me to switch from the S4 to the One but now I got them to go back. OMG what a difference. Data is 10X faster on 4G and WIFI hits the full 45mbps of my IWIFI at home. No changes to the router, no resets, just a new different phone.
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That sucks you had to switch back to the S4! Haha I'm just playin. I messed around a bit with mine and I'm able to get my max WiFi speed. My coworkers S4 gets slightly slower (not a relevant difference, though) data speeds.
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That sucks you had to switch back to the S4! Haha I'm just playin. I messed around a bit with mine and I'm able to get my max WiFi speed. My coworkers S4 gets slightly slower (not a relevant difference, though) data speeds.
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The fastest 4G data speeds I could get with full signal using the One was about 21mbps. I'm at work with 2 bars of 4G and am cruising with 35mbps down. I forgot how much faster this phone was with data. Downtown Houston I pulled in 55mbps down when I had my other one. I'm traveling out of state tomorrow so I can't wait to see how it fairs.
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The fastest 4G data speeds I could get with full signal using the One was about 21mbps. I'm at work with 2 bars of 4G and am cruising with 35mbps down. I forgot how much faster this phone was with data. Downtown Houston I pulled in 55mbps down when I had my other one. I'm traveling out of state tomorrow so I can't wait to see how it fairs.
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Eek, 21 is pretty slow. I have a feeling it was your phone...I've never pulled that slow in KC. I'm always around 45-50. Either way...at least you've got it worked out!
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Q. Anyone getting horrible wifi speeds on 2.4ghz

So, I usually leave my phone on my wireless n/5ghz connection, and I get fantastic speeds.
I tried in on 2.4ghz today, and instead of getting my "normal" 60 down/13 up, I can't get anything faster than 5 down/3 up
I know its not my router, as its brand new, and I have it setup perfectly, and everyone else's devices in the house,(lg G2's, samsung tablet) gets GREAT speed on both 2.4ghz, and 5 ghz in the same exact spots.
I am only getting a 39 meg "Link Speed" on my phone on 2.4ghz, whereas the other phones in the house are getting a 96 meg "Link Speed" on 2.4ghz
I've tried all the advanced wifi settings on the phone, including going from auto to 2.4 only, and the speed is still horrible.
My previous phone, an LG Flex, also had great speeds on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz..
This is a completely stock t mobile m8, only 3 weeks old, so I am wondering if the phone is bad, or if these phones just have poor 2.4ghz wireless radios..
Anyone see the same problems with thier M8 and wifi speeds on 2.4ghz?
Same problem for me since 4.4.3 i must switch wifi off on to solve the issue and after a while problem returns.
Setting a static ip in settings helps a little.
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yeah, I wonder if it happened when I got 4.43 a few days ago; I never bothered to check it until today..
thanks
I see some one else posted a similar wifi speed issue; there must be more folks who had this problem since the 4.4.3 update..

WiFi a little slow for me

Flashed CM11 last nite and so far it exceeds my expectations except for wifi speeds. I have an ac router and my network speeds are 150mbps down. But on this phone my speed on 2.4ghz tops of at 41mbps (not terrible, a little faster than my old phone) but 5ghz its really struggling. I just tested it at 14 mbps. That's after switching channels on my router before that it came in between 32 and 36. I was expecting it to break 100mbps since my other ac devices consistently clock in at 150 to 165mbps.
Before I start poking around my router settings...anyone else experiencing slower speeds? I didn't try the speed tests on stock fire os so not sure if this issue is restricted to CM or fire phone or if its my network settings. Just looking for others' experiences.

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