Hi
I have just got my XDAIIs and the Wifi works, however the signal quality is poor i.e 30-40% and the TX rate is only 2M. This is with power save mode setting set to best performance and I am within 1 metre from the wireless router.
ANy ideas
mine is the same
What wireless router are you guys using? I've noticed it varies with different brands. At home I've got an Apple Airport Extreme and I get about the same as you guys, whereas at work we use 3COM wireless routers and at a distance of a few meters I get about 75-80% reception.
Dimitri
I'm using a 3com and reception is around 60% anywhere. Whether I'm stood next to it or upstairs and in the opposit corner of the house (i.e. lots of bricks in the way). It's not until I go outside and start walking away from the house that I get a sudden drop off.
In other words, I think the connection software is more at fault in how it reports the signal strength than the reception.
Real Wifi transmission rate
I read back a while ago here that the maximum transmission rate on the O2 xda II, not IIs, was limited to a throughput of 256K, eventhough reception was at 2mb etc, is this true for the IIs? This was was to internal systems of the xda etc, nothing to do with wifi card etc?
I've got a netgear and a buffalo and both are the same sort of reception
Thanks for the feedback guys.
I am using a Belkin WIreless router
Hi
Mines a Draytek 2600G complete with 2 high gain (5dBi antennae), same issues, poor wifi signal when not standing next to AP. Laptop with pcicma 54G card shows full signal at same location where XDA barely registers a signal.
This causes loads of problems with skype, which drops the call and takes the wifi connection with it (soft restart required to restore).
Nigel
Are you all using Bluetooth while trying to communicate with an 802.11 network?
Bluetooth and 802.11 both operate in the 2.4 GHz band, and because of Bluetooth's frequency hopping, it can seriously impair 802.11 performance.
Some devices with integrated Bluetooth and 802.11 have proprietary mechanisms to deal with this problem, but not all as it's not mandatory.
Hi
Nope, thought of that. Killed Bluetooth on handset, other bluetooth gadgets in house, other wifi stuff bar the AP and DECT phone, and I am not running the microwave!!
Same result, poor wifi range. Also tried with 3 separate AP's now same result each time.
Went to PC world this morning connected a couple of their demo IPAQ jobbies to their btopenzone AP, got the meters up and held mine next to ipaqs. Without fail, the IPAQ's were reading 3/4 signal and my XDA was barely registering a signal. Staff must have thought I was a nutter, but I wanted to prove the sh1te wifi issue to myself!
Nigel
Anyone got an SDIO wifi card that they can test with - i'd be interested to know now much better that performed.
Nigel
i'm sure it would perform mucho better. I get the 40% signal with my buffalo router... no matter where i stand. you'd think little things like this would have been discovered during the qa cycle.
I get a much better reception around the house with my XDA 2 with an SDIO sandisk Wi-Fi card than I do with my XDA IIs with built in Wi-Fi
I don't have a Blue Angel yet, as I'm waiting to see if many of the reported issues (like this one) get resolved. However, I have a few comments/questions/suggestions:
Does anyone here know where the 802.11 antenna is inside the Blue Angel's case?
Being a software engineer who develops device drivers for 802.11 hardware, I've worked with a fair amount of WiFi devices. Chances are, the problem everyone is experiencing with WiFi is almost sure to be due to a REALLY BAD internal WiFi antenna design. The antenna is either being shielded by something inside the enclosure or picking up interference from another component.
If it's possible to shut off the internal WiFi card, one way to test the above theory is to try an SDIO WiFi card in the Blue Angel. If anyone can try this, please post your results.
If we can get information about where the antenna is in the case, it might be possible to reroute the internal antenna, or (less desirable) attach an external antenna to improve reception.
In addition, improving WiFi reception will almost surely improve battery life as well as a side effect.
It amazes me that customers of a $900 device have to jury-rig solutions to so many problems...
I use an USB Wifi dongle by Asus, reception is good arround the house, even through a lot of walls
I agree with poster above wifi on blue Angel sucks
I have both Blue Angel and XDA2 +Socket SDIO, and there is no doubt that the Socket sdio XDA2 combo has noticeably better reception, having done tests (ie trying them both from a distant spot, XDA2 can maintain connection, XDA2s can't). I'm shipping the XDA2s back and waiting for the Mini/Magician. Reception is the key to this when trying to hop on random hotpsots in the streets...so sayonara Blue Angel, too bad though...
Also, FYI on XDA, speed limit is 256K, not 2mb, due to buffers etc. routers do not prefer either system and WEP works fine on both.
Has anyone managed to get the XDA2 and socket or sandisk SD wifi card working with a dling 54g access point namely the dwl2000ap+?
I've heard of a few issues with DLINK 54g access points and these cards?
Cheers
I have the SX66 / same as PDA2k but built like XDA IIs, I use the built in wifi alot but I also Have the SDIO Socket Card also and run it when a need longer distance. No conflicts of any kind that I have seen, works well with my D-Link Router but reception is not so good with built in.
Have a Linksys WAG54G 54mb, and have tried on Dlink 108Mb running both on mixed mode. One thing I will suggest that others have mentioned but cant be explained enough, as most people place their DECT phone next to their wireless router. There needs to be at least 2M distance between the two antenna's otherwise interference will kill signal dramatically, even on different channels.
With this said, have tried XDA Mini with combo wifi card, XDA2 with wifi card, and XDAIIs with builtin, and the power management turned off to give maximum power. Yes the IIs consumes the most amount of juice, followed by the XDA2, then the Mini.
On a quick scan, drive home using wififofum, with the 3 of them mounted on the dash, came up with the following results on drive to and from work.
Access points discovered
XDA2 - 78
XDAIIs - 89
XDA Mini - 82
I might also mention, that half of these have no encryption at all, or have left noobie default settings on routers - thanks guys ;-)
Overall like the IIs, except heats up too quick and loses battery life, especially using the wireless. XDA Mini rocks, just because the size and I can place the wifi card in when i need it, and the XDA 2 is just the stable toy I have had for the last 12 months.
where did you get the XDA mini?
I didn't know that it was out in the UK yet?
I seem to have gotten myself in a little 'pickle' here and snapped off the antenna of my wireless NIC card on my computer during the moving process. Being rather crafty I attempted to repair it and got it partially functioning but it gets a very poor signal from the router (0/5 or 1/5) bars and the internet is beyond slow now on my desktop.
As a temporary fix I have just tethered my phone to do a few small things that I needed to get done, but with my throttle limit approaching and my cycle renewal still a week out this will not continue to work.
Is there a way to "tether" into my WiFi treating the phone as more of a wireless(or USB to comp) NIC card? It is out of my budget to replace the broken card at the moment and while possible, really not practical to relocate the router closer.
Tried to search around a little bit, and while I came up with a few similar thread none are exactly what I am seeking unless I am misunderstanding in my frustrated state.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=use+phone+as+wireless+adapter
Found numerous results with ways to do this.
Pretty cool to know that this is an option just in case my usb wifi thing ever dies. Although it is only $10 bucks lol....don't mind spending that really.
Depending on the distance of your computer and router, the only idead i have is this. With a USB cable you could place your phone close to your router and let it use the wifi. With a service such as EasyTether, you could bridge the wifi on your phone to the computer with the USB cable I mentioned earlier. Another solution is if you phone is in bluetooth range to your computer you could actually tether that way using your wifi. Alike, place your phone close to your router so it can use wifi and then pair your phone and computer and tether like that.
G1ForFun said:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=use+phone+as+wireless+adapter
Found numerous results with ways to do this.
Pretty cool to know that this is an option just in case my usb wifi thing ever dies. Although it is only $10 bucks lol....don't mind spending that really.
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Fair enough, maybe I should have searched outside of XDA, sometimes I just like to stick my favorite native forum
Where did you find one for $10? The only decent ones with reviews I seem to find are $40+ and with the car emergency/move I just forked over cash for it's not something I wanted to shell out if I could easily tether as wireless adapter.
avarize said:
Fair enough, maybe I should have searched outside of XDA, sometimes I just like to stick my favorite native forum
Where did you find one for $10? The only decent ones with reviews I seem to find are $40+ and with the car emergency/move I just forked over cash for it's not something I wanted to shell out if I could easily tether as wireless adapter.
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Well to be fair it was on sale. I got it off Newegg. Dont be to worried about reviews...with wireless there are so many factors that play into bad/dropped signal and a lot of the average joes have no idea how or why it is happening. And rather than troubleshoot it, it is much easier to just blame the adapter. Naturally, these are the majority of people who write reviews.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA App
Is no one having Wi-Fi issues with this stick on this board?
There are 500+ complaints here
I couldn't even set up this stick on a Linksys ddwrt router.
I have 15 active clients connected not one of them had this many problems
I tried changing Wi-Fi channels rebooting multiple times, even set an open vap. It also seemed to drop the lease from my cable modem had to reboot everything. I'm only 10 feet from my ap.
I finally did get it "connected with problems"but menus sorta half load if they even load at all.
Anyone? Replace or refund?
Mine seems to work well with weak 2.4ghz signals. But it has severe issues even with strong 5ghz signals. bummer but it'll do
ziddey said:
.... it has severe issues even with strong 5ghz signals...
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Try config your 5ghz WiFi signal to use a 20Mhz band instead of the wide 40Mhz band (if your router support this) then I think you will solve your WiFi problem with the Fire TV stick, the Fire TV square don't have this problem
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Try config your 5ghz WiFi signal to use a 20Mhz band instead of the wide 40Mhz band (if your router support this) then I think you will solve your WiFi problem with the Fire TV stick, the Fire TV square don't have this problem
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My FTV never seems to catch the 5GHz signal (20MHz band) or it is very intermittent. It is not very far from the router (my iPhone catches it fine, even if it is further away). In a bizarre twist, when I connect to 2.4, it will show that one as having a very weak signal, but the 5 signal would show as very strong (while still connected to 2.4). So, then if I connect to the 5 signal, it will show the 5 as very weak and the suddenly 2.4 will show as strong (while connected to 5). And I can play that game with FTV all day long. Thankfully, I am wired using powerline adapters.
I have a ASUS 1900AC running DD-WRT.
Nope no 5 GHz router here.
I'm still running an original Linksys v4 ddwrt. It's been rock solid since I picked it up at a thrift store for $4/w PS.
I did manage to get it working pretty reliably.
I wrapped it loosely with about a foot of aluminum wire and zip tied it up instead of letting it hang. Whether the wire does anything or not.... It works
I have a few other android tv sticks, I know they usually have weak Wi-Fi, but this one would not even connect.
Installed kodi,addons,launcher hacks.....
Ran it all night without issues, actually runs kodi very well, so far so good.
I'm impressed with the kodi performance, runs as good, maybe better than my 808B+
Now? How do I run setup without an amazon account.
Mr.Rellik1000 I Can Really Use Your Help!!
Remote control will only work about 1 foot away from firestick. Worked OK for a while then this happened. Checked with another firestick and remote so definately problem in firestick. Done a full reset but problem still there and re paired remotes. Batteries fine Works fine with Iphone app Sideloaded progs and didn't try to root it. Is this a symptom of efuse failure or can it be fixed
Mine's also garbage. Drops out before 1m away, so an expensive piece of rubbish never to be used. Most people sit a few metres away from their TVs, so not being able to use your remote to change channels when seated is like going back to pushbutton TVs. An awful product - don't waste your money on it.
Is there a way to dumb down my so-called smart TV? I'm sick of software updates, issues with connectivity, even turning it off can sometimes not work properly. I just want to have the TV I have now, but with no excess software. I just want to turn it on, connect to the internet through a cable, use the in-built chromecast, select input and change volume. I can't be alone in this. I'm sick of updating software. I don't need a smart TV, I just need a dumb vessel.
I rue the day, and at this rate it's only a matter of time until everything becomes 'smart'. Your fridge, your washing machine, your toilet. And when your food spoils because your internet went down or your toilet won't flush because of a bad update.
Meleagru said:
Is there a way to dumb down my so-called smart TV? I'm sick of software updates, issues with connectivity, even turning it off can sometimes not work properly. I just want to have the TV I have now, but with no excess software. I just want to turn it on, connect to the internet through a cable, use the in-built chromecast, select input and change volume. I can't be alone in this. I'm sick of updating software. I don't need a smart TV, I just need a dumb vessel.
I rue the day, and at this rate it's only a matter of time until everything becomes 'smart'. Your fridge, your washing machine, your toilet. And when your food spoils because your internet went down or your toilet won't flush because of a bad update.
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Please unplug your power supply