I have an issue with every torrent client on my LG G3. When I launch a torrent, the speeds are initially what I would expect, but after 20 seconds the dl speed drops to 1kb/s or so and never recovers. I tried encryption to make sure it wasn't my ISP throttling it, but the problem persists. Torrents on my PC work fine, so it's unlikely that its a problem with my internet.
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I have been beta testing a bittorrent client app on my EVO that runs on Android. I'm able to use the app's built-in search feature to search for torrent files on isoHunt. I can select the file and it will start transferring to my computer, but I've been having a bunch of problems getting it to complete a download.
I installed the 3gtest app and ran a test. It said that both bit torrent uplink traffic and bit torrent downlink traffic were blocked. This was all on 3G. I had 4G turned off. Has anyone else seen this?
I plan to try it on 4G (assuming 3gtest works on 4G), and I was also thinking about trying to transfer a torrent on my PC while wi-fi tethering. I'm running fresh's 0.5.3 ROM, but I doubt there's anything there that's causing a problem. Fresh doesn't run adblocking or anything. Any ideas?
geams13 said:
I have been beta testing a bittorrent client app on my EVO that runs on Android. I'm able to use the app's built-in search feature to search for torrent files on isoHunt. I can select the file and it will start transferring to my computer, but I've been having a bunch of problems getting it to complete a download.
I installed the 3gtest app and ran a test. It said that both bit torrent uplink traffic and bit torrent downlink traffic were blocked. This was all on 3G. I had 4G turned off. Has anyone else seen this?
I plan to try it on 4G (assuming 3gtest works on 4G), and I was also thinking about trying to transfer a torrent on my PC while wi-fi tethering. I'm running fresh's 0.5.3 ROM, but I doubt there's anything there that's causing a problem. Fresh doesn't run adblocking or anything. Any ideas?
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I get the same results while tethering my phone. Shame really...
I dont have any problems... I have been downloading torrents via tether since the 4th.
I can download torrents, but never get past 10kbps while downloading
My speeds go up and down, tops at 150kb/s.
I'll try it later over usb tethering and post my results so we can see if it's regional or nationwide.
You have a link to this bittorrent client? I never have my laptop in a 4G area.
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geams13 said:
I have been beta testing a bittorrent client app on my EVO that runs on Android. I'm able to use the app's built-in search feature to search for torrent files on isoHunt. I can select the file and it will start transferring to my computer, but I've been having a bunch of problems getting it to complete a download.
I installed the 3gtest app and ran a test. It said that both bit torrent uplink traffic and bit torrent downlink traffic were blocked. This was all on 3G. I had 4G turned off. Has anyone else seen this?
I plan to try it on 4G (assuming 3gtest works on 4G), and I was also thinking about trying to transfer a torrent on my PC while wi-fi tethering. I'm running fresh's 0.5.3 ROM, but I doubt there's anything there that's causing a problem. Fresh doesn't run adblocking or anything. Any ideas?
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FYI I ran this app on my 4G and on my home WiFi.. both of which can download torrents just fine and it shows them as "Blocked" so I am not sure how accurate it is.
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My speeds go up and down, tops at 150kb/s.
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AndTorrent gives me about the same speeds on 3G/4G.
WiFi tops out ~200kb/s.
For those interested, check out BluePlanetapps on twitter. That's the developer and he posts updates there.
My 3gtest says that bittorrents are blocked, but I can actually start a torrent. The speeds vary on 3G, going up to around 150 kb/s, but after a variable number of minutes downloading, it'll stop. I can manually restart it later and it continues to download, and then it will stop again.
It seems like Sprint isn't blocking all bittorrent ports, but that it's detecting the torrent and then blocks it. I dunno. I'll try tethering and 4G over the next couple of days and post my results. Unfortunately, I don't get a great 4G signal at home. If anyone else runs any tests, please post them.
I'm not surprised in the slightest that Sprint is blocking them. Why? Two reasons:
1) Upload bandwith on a limited cell network is, well, limited. It's just like your normal internet node - there's usually lots of download bandwith, but only so much upload to go around. You cap that and you've now screwed everyone else on the node until you're done.
2) Legality issues. 95-99% (some high percentage) of all torrents out there contain some sort of illegal and/or very gray-area items. Sprint is trying to protect their rears for when the MPAA/RIAA mafia look their way.
So yes, I'm not surprised at all. Why you shouldn't be doing it either. For the love of all that's holy, if you must torrent, do it on your own home connection that has a MUCH higher limit on upload bandwith.
Actually, as crazy as it sounds my upload speeds are faster on 3g than on my home connection. Thank you time warner.
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I wired tethered my evo to my pc on 3g last night, was torrenting just fine
Uh all modern bittorent applications chose ports at random.
Hello,
I tried searching for this issue and could not find any help in the topics, though I see some others are having the same issue with out resolution.
My phone via 4g get's about 3-5mbps when I run speedtest on the evo...
I start wireless tether and the fastest speed I can get via my laptop is .7mbps.
I updated my wireless driver to allow maximum power and that has allowed the speed to stay constant and improved the situation a little. ( there was a post somewhere on here, so thank you for that one)
Any ideas/help on how I can get my wireless tether speed to match closer to the 4g speed the phone gets? I am using google's wireless tether pre3 version. I have tried all 3 versions ( from the stable one, pre2 and pre3) all having same issue.
Is a full 2-4mbps loss in speed normal via wireless tether?
I am using rooted stock 1.47 rom and have tried fresh ROM with same results.
Any tips or help is greatly appreciated.
Same here
Hey, thought I would add to the chorus...with a large caveat.
I average about 5-7 down and about 1 up pretty consistently in my home on the phone. But, when I just browse and surf the web via the Android Wifi Tether (2.07) on my phone, I only get around 500k-1meg via Speedtest.net. However, if I look at the stats on my Tether application while I view things like FB, I spike to well over 3 megs at times. AND when I get torrents, I am using my full bandwidth that my phone says I have available to me, with almost nothing lost (as far as I can tell) from the 4g service, through the Wifi, to my computer.
This might not mean too much, and in fact I might never have noticed anything, until I tried to watch HD videos on my Laptops browser connected to my Evo via the Wifi app. It simply will not give me much more than 700 k (you can track what the site (for example, TheDailyShow) sees as "available" to you), even though I know I have more than that available to me at that exact same second (because I tell the torrents that I had been downloading to slow down, and immediately speed back up again after I try to watch HD videos)
It's not the same issue, but I think they are related. Have you tried torrents to see what you actually have available to you? Try something common and legal, so as not to piss anyone off.
I know I have the capacity, and I know my phone can handle it, I just dunno why I can't get that bandwidth that I know I have access to via the Tether application on my Evo all the time that I am browsing.
So I was super upset with the issue that I and others were having with WIFI dropping in and out, it works but since it drops for a split second you cant download large files, i tried lots of basebands and all other crap and nothing worked, so i sniffed out some fix with DHCP settings but my settings were already set to give access for a few hours so that wasnt it either, BUT i just did a 700 mb download over wifi running an AD HOC connection from my laptop SOOOOO i guess its an issue with either the phones software and my router or just the router but i only need to refresh cached content or download big files once and again, so for now i would try an ad hoc connection from your laptop if you have this issue and see how it goes, as far as versions, it doesnt matter what im running because i ran it all but right now i am GSM stock 4.0.2 (i like my google video and wallet working) so good luck everybody and please let me know if this helps you or if i took the long way around a simple problem
Hi guys, got an issue with my phone recently, 3G/H has been extremely slow using web browsing apps lately.
It's fine on other apps and if I run an app like speedtest or even facebook in the background the web app will run fine as long as speedtest is doing its thing.
I have no issue when on wifi.
Reseting the phone and clearing app data makes no difference.
My phone has the latest software.
Was fine till about 3 weeks ago.
Phone is 3 months old, this is the first issue.
Have tested with stock browser, dolphin and chrome.
I think this is a really strange issue.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sam.
may be the problem of the telecom operators
I had the same probs up to a couple of days ago but since i updated to the latest radio (2.1204.127.19) my internet connection probs have gone...
not sure if that's your solution though as you say you have the latest software ... ?
Hello don't you have a data limitation ?
I have 1 Go data limitation. After that my browser seems to be slow but it's because i'm limited in data bandwith.
I don't have anymore my full speed until next month ...
Make sure you don't have this limitation too.
Other apps that don't need "speed" datas will not show any problem
because they only download a little amount of datas at once ( weather for example ).
Does speedtest shows a low speed ?
Prbably not my povider as it's only the web browser apps.
I'm on 1.29.862.11
It won't be data limit, i don't get near it and it doesn't slow down anyway, they just charge me more.
Speedtest shows same as always between 3 and 6 Mbps
I have had my 5x almost 5 months now and i have been experiencing very slow WiFi download/upload speeds, but on gplay store i get very high speeds, I've read that turning on Bluetooth helps but this doesn't work for me, I this a software issue, or possibly a hardware issue? Any suggestion would be appreciated. This problem has persisted over android versions (6.0-7.1.1) i have the latest radio installed (installed it using the zip here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/general/nexus-5x-radio-bootloader-recovery-t3433638)
Thanks.
Firstly, I wouldn't recommend installing any 3rd party radios in situations like this. Because if you are confident that Google Play downloads work reasonably fast, clearly your radio is OK.
The issue must be something else then -- for instance badly setup DNS or your router in general (which just happens to have Google server correctly cached).
Lastly, I'm 100% sure Bluetooth doesn't help Wi-Fi at all, it's the other way around -- if BT and Wi-Fi shares the same antenna, hardly they can help each other, they must multiplex each other, leading to more slowdowns.
every few weeks for some strange reason I get slow internet while connected to wifi, pages load very slow accoss all apps, never took notice if play store is affected, my tablet or computer connected to the same wifi works fine, so I know its not my wifi..... anyway, I found if I go into recovery and clear all cache, it fixes the problem for a while.... it returns every few weeks though......