H i guys... How do I increase the wifi speed and range?
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deloj said:
H i guys... How do I increase the wifi speed and range?
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Well i give you easier approach..... get the modem closer to you....if impossible...you have pretty much 2 options...
1. Use thin foil and create a wall around the modem and turn it towards the direction you want the signal to be distributed. The foil will bounce the waves to right direction...while it sounds crazy it works to certain level.
2. Use wifi extenders.... they are good.... simply plug it into the wall and sync....they use wifi.... they can cost anywhere from 30euros+ i woudlnt buy cheapest. But they as well works...they can create a tiny micro response issue....but in my case they didnt ....it just depends how far the signal needs to be transfered and what the stengh of the signal is recieved by the extender.
Take care.
Btw you cant ammend a70 capabilities..... i hear you.... i have poco f1 and it exceed a70 in wifi range by miles...
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do those sticky things you can buy on ebay really work, you just stick them on the back of your phone/battery and they are supposed to improve the reception.
also, on the back, under the little rubber bungs there are ports to plug in aerials for the BT and Wi-fi, anyone know were i can get the plugs alone or the plugs/aerials as a whole.
cheers.
one friend give me one of them as a gift and i put on the back of my IIs (sticked on the housing under the battery) and don't seems to work, no improvements reported...in my house i have poor phone signal so it's not difficult to see if any change in signal strenght occur
I wished they did...I just put my Uni back in its box, because the service is so bad. Not that it's anyone's fault but mine because I knew the phone's specs, but I'm tired of the constant fluctuation of service because of the constant.
Back to my QUAD BAND Sony Ericsson W810 I go...
Man, I couldn't go back to a phone if I wanted to... PDA's are just the way forward.
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Man, I couldn't go back to a phone if I wanted to... PDA's are just the way forward.
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I know man...but the W810 is the only phone I can ever go back to. It's just gotten ridiculous...I love my Uni, but I actually USE the phone part of it a lot. And the lack of that 850 band has been killing me lately.
with older phones, there would be this rubber tab you could pop off to reveal a connection intended to hookup an external antenna. on this nexus, there doesn't appear to be one. with the battery door removed though, i see various points that could potentially be such a connection(G, L1 C2, C1, L2). the marker labelled "C1" looks like it could be a possible connection point. has anyone tried using a make-shift antenna(insulated wire, paper clip, etc)?
Reception is fine in most places on the gnex. Its a 600-800 dollar fone why would I ductape a paper clip to this gorgeous fone for reception.
But no I have not tried
Android - making grown men pee sitting down since 2.0
Paper clip? I macgyvered a hat with an old tv antenna.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
I've had great reception so far, so haven't tried.
If you try that out, let us know how it goes--never know when I'll be stuck in some building blocking signal and need to create a long antenna to poke out a window!
I had a Rezound briefly and found that I had much better signal strength + transfer speeds with that phone then I do now on my Nexus. Most likely due to how the Rezound's antenna is integrated into the back door. I frequent a local library and while I'm there the signal on the Nexus will show 1 bar 4G and lot's of times it will switch to 3G & even temporarily drop signal completely. With the Rezound though it always had 2 - 3 bars + speeds were also considerably faster. Anyway, so far I've tested out the paper clip... and upon making contact it instantly went from 1 bar to 2 bars. No matter how I adjusted it though it would not go any higher... but, upon removing the paper clip it would go back to 1 bar. I'll have to do further testing... although of course, I only do plan to do this for such situations. If I'm somewhere with a good signal I'll leave the phone be.
[EDIT] p.s. this is also my 2nd Nexus. the 1st one also had reception issues.
I don't have internet at my apartment and I don't have plans of getting it anytime soon. I get a free Cricket Crosswave with my job so I haven't really planned on getting real internet service.. I have crap for data when it comes to Sprint. It's a shame that I have to use Wifi on my Sprint phone and hook it to my Cricket wifi just to have data.
Anyway, I know that if I call Sprint and complain they will send me their booster thing for free, but I have heard of people buying similar devices that don't require an internet connection to boost signal. Does anyone know of a solution?
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I have tried to signal booster all it is really is a repeater you put a antenna up REALLY high or at least as high as the cable they give you let you and as long as you are in range of the base you should get better signal this works in theory. I am not so sure it works in real life good way to find out before you buy see if with in a mile or so of your house you can get the signal you are looking for if not then I am not really sure I would waste my time with it I mean you could as long as you can return it. These things are really truly made to just pick up a good outside signal and bring it inside places that well are shielded there not directional antennas or anything that would be able to be aimed (which would work better imo) how ever putting it up high in the air will tend to improve your ability to pick up signal in you are in a low area they are powered which means the SHOULD be able to boost low signal but again SHOULD is the key. Bottom line it didn't work for me and I have what is suppose to be good coverage in my area but.........I don't BTW here is what i tried take it or leave it up to you hope this helped I am not really good at this hope explaining things deal.
http://www.amazon.com/zBoost-YX-510...XZ1K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337891426&sr=8-2
i'll probably have to give this a try some time soon.. thanks!
Can also try mounting on an old SAT dish, it can provide a huge gain of signal if you have one lying around, just point it in different directions till you get max bars. Show your signal in dBm if you can for more accuracy. The dish points in the direction of 45 degrees off the plane of the dish.
Remove the black tape that is on top of the actual antenna and you'll be left with a gold copper ribbon which is your real antenna. This help a lot because the black tape is blocking the radio wave that your antenna is trying to receive.
Special use case. I am trying to get a signal when summitting 14ers (really high mountains). The current method is to send a guy up with a Verizon phone and a few other WiFi hotspots and cross our fingers that he catches signal for a few minutes.
I've scoured the web and can't seem to find any information on this. The Wilson Portable seems like it has the right idea, but is clearly designed for a car use situation. Should I be looking into using a Wilson Sleek with a larger external antenna and improvised battery backpack? Or perhaps there is a software trick to increase the power to the 2g radio? I'm really all ears.
I would love to figure out a way to simply slide my Nexus 5 in a case of sorts with a ~3ft collapsible antenna on the top. Would this work? Does it need to be in physical contact with the actual antenna, or could it just be in contact with the backplate?
I really hope someone has an idea on this subject. I find it so hard to search for!
Thanks again,
Matt
Ingress? lol
Yeah.. I wouldn't have much of an answer since with any booster, there needs to be a signal to boost.
I've thought of using your idea with a booster and a portable battery, but have field tested it yet.
TerkyTime said:
Special use case. I am trying to get a signal when summitting 14ers (really high mountains). The current method is to send a guy up with a Verizon phone and a few other WiFi hotspots and cross our fingers that he catches signal for a few minutes.
I've scoured the web and can't seem to find any information on this. The Wilson Portable seems like it has the right idea, but is clearly designed for a car use situation. Should I be looking into using a Wilson Sleek with a larger external antenna and improvised battery backpack? Or perhaps there is a software trick to increase the power to the 2g radio? I'm really all ears.
I would love to figure out a way to simply slide my Nexus 5 in a case of sorts with a ~3ft collapsible antenna on the top. Would this work? Does it need to be in physical contact with the actual antenna, or could it just be in contact with the backplate?
I really hope someone has an idea on this subject. I find it so hard to search for!
Thanks again,
Matt
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I've got a Nexus 5, not sure if we have an external antenna jack or not. A lot of phones hide it under the battery.
You'd want a Yagi-style antenna. There are lots of instructions for making them with stuff like fishing pole tubes and tig welding tubes to make them ultra-light and foldable/dis-assembable for hiking purposes.
http://www.ubersignal.com/blog/yagi-antennas/
Yagi's boost transmit and receive both. They're highly directional, so you have to point them at the right spot.
Get a sat phone. Or climb 14'ers that have cell towers on them.
I climb a lot in the Sierra Nevada and almost always have service anywhere over 13000 ft. They're a narrow range close to population though. If you doing that in the Rockies I wouldn't trust cell service.
Rate this thread to express how you think the Maze Alpha's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
wiFi very weak
XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Rate this thread to express how you think the Maze Alpha's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
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It's the worst wiFi I've ever seen on a cell phone. I have a good router (at least I think). A tp-link Archer C20, which covers my entire home. With the Maze Alpha you disconnect a distance of 5 meters onwards. In the 5GHz band it just does not stay connected.
Bad bad Wi-Fi! It remains connected, but frequently Internet is not available: so I disable/enable the Wi-Fi button, and Internet came back.
It sounds like it always lose the DNS.
vgiuseppe77 said:
Bad bad Wi-Fi! It remains connected, but frequently Internet is not available: so I disable/enable the Wi-Fi button, and Internet came back.
It sounds like it always lose the DNS.
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Have you applied update version 07?
pja1985430 said:
Have you applied update version 07?
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It's really bad. Disappointing...
Not very good wifi range indeed. I hope the next update will fix it ! (if it's not material of course)
pja1985430 said:
Have you applied update version 07?
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Yes, my firmware is:
MAZE_Alpha_V07_20171016_20171017-1809
vgiuseppe77 said:
Yes, my firmware is:
MAZE_Alpha_V07_20171016_20171017-1809
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Mine works very well to over a range of 10 meters.
pja1985430 said:
Mine works very well to over a range of 10 meters.
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Same here. Got mine yesterday and I am wondering the bad comments. Wifi is not top top, but I have seen some other expensive devices that have much worse wifi.
My pc and phone are both same distance from the router and my phone has a better connection than my wifi dongle. Also, when I visit the regular haunts where I would fight for wifi on some phones, this phone is exceptionally better. I'm not sure why others are having problems but in my experience of different phones over the years, this phone is pretty good for me.
Currently, it's making its way up stairs, round a corner and through a corridor to my room which is connected ok, not 100% stable but until I moved my pc (netgear) wifi adaptor closer with a usb extension, it was a stronger connection, my phone if probably 5ft further away from the dongle and showing half signal while my dongle is now showing full. If I put my phone there, it goes full.
Don't forget there are other issues that mess with signals, other signals mostly.
I would suggest starting right next to whatever is broadcasting and then take a walk in varying directions and ascertaining what other signals could be messing with it.
codQuore said:
My pc and phone are both same distance from the router and my phone has a better connection than my wifi dongle. Also, when I visit the regular haunts where I would fight for wifi on some phones, this phone is exceptionally better. I'm not sure why others are having problems but in my experience of different phones over the years, this phone is pretty good for me.
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I would suggest starting right next to whatever is broadcasting and then take a walk in varying directions and ascertaining what other signals could be messing with it.
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Correct, I'm going to make a general post with my experience after day 2. I have enough technical background and experience.
Solved!
Hi,
I solved the issue! I've noticed that in office, with ad old access point, my Maze Alpha works well. And, I read that some of you have no problem with Wi-Fi. So, I thought... maybe the problem is the 5GHz?
So, I disabled it, and now the Wi-Fi works well.
Before, I had many problems standing 1 meter from access point, and in another room the Wi-Fi was unusable.
How did you turn off
vgiuseppe77 said:
Hi,
I solved the issue! I've noticed that in office, with ad old access point, my Maze Alpha works well. And, I read that some of you have no problem with Wi-Fi. So, I thought... maybe the problem is the 5GHz?
So, I disabled it, and now the Wi-Fi works well.
Before, I had many problems standing 1 meter from access point, and in another room the Wi-Fi was unusable.
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How did you turn off 5GHz?
Andre43-BR said:
How did you turn off 5GHz?
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I've turned off it on my access point. On the Maze Alpha I didn't find how to turn off.
Thanks.