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How to switch between wi-fi b and g ?

hi all,
according to o2 mini s has Integrated Wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
http://www.my-xda.com/xdaminis_spec.html
but i couldnt find a way to switch between b/g or is it possible manual switch?

anyone? :roll:

I think in some roms its disabled for example the T Mobile rom. Im not sure there is a way to switch it on or off on the Wizard. Either way just set your router to mixed if possible. You really wont see any difference between b or g on your wizard anyway. The only reason I would see for being able to connect to G is connecting to routers that are set to G only.

There is no setting on the device I can see. I don't believe its a 'g' device capable of 54 Mbits, I think this is just marketing. Its a 'b' device which can connect to b or g. Just like blueangel, alpine, universal.
Can anyone prove otherwise?

thanks guys I’ve asked that because i have connection blockage problem with my wireless router, it suddenly happens and while connection to router is alive and working I can't send or receive any data from internet or from other wireless connected pcs, only way to get it going is turn wifi off and on, i reckon its something to do with router then

jdee246 said:
Can anyone prove otherwise?
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My Qtek Wizard establishes connections up to 54 MBit/s, when disabling the power saving mode. Usually connection bandwidth is 18 MBit/s with standard settings.
So Wizard is definitely 802.11g capable!

So disabling the power save mode kicks G in then ?

I don't think it is a big deal G or B, wifi is nice, but the processor is so slow that can not deal with more data speed than b.
only personal opinion.
Happy New Year to every one on this forum

I think 802.11g is only available after a firmware upgrade. Seem to recall reading somewhere that the Qtek and I-Mate branded one have had this done and the T-Mobile and O2 ones haven't.
Next O2 rom update maybe.

inquisitor said:
jdee246 said:
Can anyone prove otherwise?
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My Qtek Wizard establishes connections up to 54 MBit/s, when disabling the power saving mode. Usually connection bandwidth is 18 MBit/s with standard settings.
So Wizard is definitely 802.11g capable!
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Interesting. So you are setting power save mode to 'best performance' in order to disable?
Where are you seeing the connection speed, this is on your router?
I'm not doubting you but I'd like to see for myself. Thanks.

I just rechecked the g-issue more detailed.
Allthough changing power saving settings to "best performance" I couldn't achieve more than 18 MBit/s again. Maybe the display of 54 Mbit/ before were caused by some bug in my router.
The bandwidth is shown in the "WLAN monitor" menu of my WLAN router (AVM "Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7050").
After switching to 802.11g-only mode my Wizard wouldn't reconnect or find the WLAN at all.
But 18 MBit/s is a speed step, that is used in 802.11a and g only. 802.11b+ doesn't have a speed step between 11 and 22 MBit/s. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11#802.11a)
So my Wizard 18 MBit/s must establish a (obviously not 100% standard-conforming) 802.11g connection.

i was just on the club imate site lookin at the k-jam specs and heres what is says:
-IEEE 802.11b/g/e*/i* compliant
-Internal WLAN antenna
-11, 5.5, 2, and 1 Mbps per channel, auto fallback for extended range
*Will be supported soon via free ROM update from clubimate.

wifi painfully slow...

I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I just got my Cingular 8125 and the wifi is very slow. I don't know how to measure the actual speed but for instance on my broadband connection, going to Google.com opens up in about a second. On dial up it takes about 5 seconds. However, on my phone using wifi, it takes about 20 seconds. When using wifi on my laptop, it is comparable to my broadband speeds my router is connected to.
I have pretty slow GPRS service as well and wifi is comparable.
I get the same slow speed on 802.11b as well as 802.11g networks (g network with registry hack)
Is this normal? The wifi speeds with the unit brand new out of the box was very slow. I flashed the rom and even overclocked to 240, the wifi internet is still painfully slow. I don't really find this useable. If I go to a page with images and such it can take a minute or so.
Anyone have any suggestions? Are others getting good speed on wifi. I tested by watching a streaming video and the speed shown on the bottom of windows media was 18k.
Were my expectations too high? Is there a setting I have incorrect?

IdeaDirect said:
I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I just got my Cingular 8125 and the wifi is very slow. I don't know how to measure the actual speed but for instance on my broadband connection, going to Google.com opens up in about a second. On dial up it takes about 5 seconds. However, on my phone using wifi, it takes about 20 seconds. When using wifi on my laptop, it is comparable to my broadband speeds my router is connected to.
I have pretty slow GPRS service as well and wifi is comparable.
I get the same slow speed on 802.11b as well as 802.11g networks (g network with registry hack)
Is this normal? The wifi speeds with the unit brand new out of the box was very slow. I flashed the rom and even overclocked to 240, the wifi internet is still painfully slow. I don't really find this useable. If I go to a page with images and such it can take a minute or so.
Anyone have any suggestions? Are others getting good speed on wifi. I tested by watching a streaming video and the speed shown on the bottom of windows media was 18k.
Were my expectations too high? Is there a setting I have incorrect?
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Always best to be sure that you are actually using the wifi connection - Try disconnecting the gprs first before you connect to wifi. I have an issue where if I leave my gprs connection enabled all the time it takes precedence over my wifi no matter what.

Bratag said:
Always best to be sure that you are actually using the wifi connection - Try disconnecting the gprs first before you connect to wifi. I have an issue where if I leave my gprs connection enabled all the time it takes precedence over my wifi no matter what.
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Tried that but still no luck. When connected by wifi, I see the little wifi icon on the title bar. When connecting to GPRS, it shows the E and actually a pop-up saying it is connecting to GPRS. This part is actually working great. Uses wifi by default when wifi is on and GPRS is not.
I did try to disable GPRS entirely but still get the same slow results.
I also changed the wifi setting to maximize performance instead of save battery life. Didn't seem to matter.
I may experiment with Opera Mini or something to see if I can get some improved speeds.

no problems with wifi here. getting a faster connection than GPRS, even at hotspots.

I had a problem with my wifi connection in that the DHCP server giving out an incorrect address for one of the DNS servers. This made the wifi slow, because Internet Explorer kept on trying to lookup the IP of a host using the broken DNS, and then falling back to the second in the list.
You try specifying a DNS server manually to diagnose the problem.

Cingular 8125 WiFi Fix that works!
Believe it or not the support for this product from HTC, the mfgr, is great and fast! That being said, I like most users have spent days hunting for solutions to the problem and you will not find them anywhere. But here is the solution:
First you must have an unlimited account for data usage or forget your WiFi...well at least simply. Also, you must get Cingular to flip a switch for your 8125 to automatically switch from WiFi to GPRS and back depending on what is the best signal. It works great once the switch is set.
The only way I found to do this was to call support and make sure you get to the HTC support group. They will guide you quickly through getting setup but you must tell them about the switch so they call Cingular and have the switch set. For some reason Cingular, no surprise, does not seem to know about this when they sell you the plan and the phone.

Re: Cingular 8125 WiFi Fix that works!
mostinc said:
Believe it or not the support for this product from HTC, the mfgr, is great and fast! That being said, I like most users have spent days hunting for solutions to the problem and you will not find them anywhere. But here is the solution:
First you must have an unlimited account for data usage or forget your WiFi...well at least simply. Also, you must get Cingular to flip a switch for your 8125 to automatically switch from WiFi to GPRS and back depending on what is the best signal. It works great once the switch is set.
The only way I found to do this was to call support and make sure you get to the HTC support group. They will guide you quickly through getting setup but you must tell them about the switch so they call Cingular and have the switch set. For some reason Cingular, no surprise, does not seem to know about this when they sell you the plan and the phone.
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Thank you so much. This sounds like the solution I'm looking for. So are you saying to call HTC support and they will contact Cingular to have the switch set on my behalf?? Or do I just call Cingular and tell them to "turn the switch on"?
I do have an unlimited GPRS for data usage.

what a crock of steaming brown stuff :x .... what exactly does wifi have to do with your telco? ... nothing. There maybe some registry entry that Cingular have set when the device ships which causes poor WiFi speeds but your GPRS data plan has nothing to do with WiFi data, unless you are talking about connecting to Cingular WiFi hotspots. The only changes needed will be on your device not within the Telco network.

before calling support, try this:
Go to comm mgr and turn off the phone. Then turn on WiFi and let it connect. Check your speed with www.2wire.com. If your speed is still slow, and another PC connected to that HotSpot isn't (test the PC with 2wire also) then your 8125 is bad.
Using the WiFi icon v.s. the "E" icon is no way to determine what wireless system you're using btw...

Sleuth255 said:
before calling support, try this:
Go to comm mgr and turn off the phone. Then turn on WiFi and let it connect. Check your speed with www.2wire.com. If your speed is still slow, and another PC connected to that HotSpot isn't (test the PC with 2wire also) then your 8125 is bad.
Using the WiFi icon v.s. the "E" icon is no way to determine what wireless system you're using btw...
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Ok, I tried 2wire. My laptop connected to my wifi network and clocks in at 3.2Mbps and my 8125 is showing 221 kbps. multiple tests showed 228, 205, 220). Perhaps it is unrealistic to expect similar speed as my laptop.
I turned the com manager phone back on and connected via GPRS and the speed test came back at 64.8 kbps.
So it does look like this method is working. I can live with 221 kbps.
By the way, I emailed Cingular and HTS. I got the following response from Cingular:
Thank you for contacting Data Support!
There is an additional setting that you need to enable/disable manually every time you switch between GPRS and Wi Fi, please take a look at it:
[they sent a link to a page not found]
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I think it's always going to be slow because of the way the phone is designed. Probably small bus interface. My friend has a 6700 wich cpu wise is pretty much the same based on comparison but his is much faster through wifi.

"I think it's always going to be slow because of the way the phone is designed. Probably small bus interface. My friend has a 6700 wich cpu wise is pretty much the same based on comparison but his is much faster through wifi."
No no no no no no and no.
small bus interface? for heavens sake... you have heard that there is something called a "bus" inside computers and that it is used to "transfer data" and this "bus interface" is small in the qtek so it is a viable candidate to blame slow transfers on.
no.
any memory bus designed after 1980 is capable of 200kbit transfers.
the main reason for the horrid speed of the 9100 is the stupid software design where every system call in a program gets interrupted by the os which in turn, after checking who-knows-what, in the name of "security" and "stability", and then executed. Of course this hinders performance dramaticaly without affecting stability and security a single bit: it still crashes. the difference is that it is also slow.

I'm running Xelencin's custom 2.17 ROM for T-mobile on my 8125. His ROM sets the device up to work with an 802.11 g wifi connection. I kid you not - I have measured 900 to 1200 Kbps on my wifi at home (comcast) and at work (T1). It's blazing fast.
To measure your speed, go to www.dslreports.com. Click on the lowfi version at the top of the page. Then click on speed test. Then choose either 600K or 1 MB and then let it do the test.
You may have some setting wrong.

I have an 'adhoc' wireless network (running at 11Mbs) and i stream large lossless (FLAC) audio files to my Squeezebox 3 wireless music player with no issues whatsoever.
However, the MDA can't cope at all. FLAC files play great from the MiniSD, but wifi performance is worse than terrible.
Yes, the wifi speed of the MDA is s**t.
That said, if anyone has any tips on how to increase perfomance please let me know!
Thanks.

My Wifi would not work at all when I updated my ROM but this utility fixed that and sped things up. I recommend backing up your device before executing because I have only tried this on QTEK 9100 with a beta 2.8 ROM.

tsiros said:
"I think it's always going to be slow because of the way the phone is designed. Probably small bus interface. My friend has a 6700 wich cpu wise is pretty much the same based on comparison but his is much faster through wifi."
No no no no no no and no.
small bus interface? for heavens sake... you have heard that there is something called a "bus" inside computers and that it is used to "transfer data" and this "bus interface" is small in the qtek so it is a viable candidate to blame slow transfers on.
no.
any memory bus designed after 1980 is capable of 200kbit transfers.
the main reason for the horrid speed of the 9100 is the stupid software design where every system call in a program gets interrupted by the os which in turn, after checking who-knows-what, in the name of "security" and "stability", and then executed. Of course this hinders performance dramaticaly without affecting stability and security a single bit: it still crashes. the difference is that it is also slow.
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Excuse me for my ignorance... But then how do you explain that the 6700 can handle 700kb wireless while 9100's usually around 220kB? The Intel proc on the 6700 seems comparable to the Omap,no?

keitht said:
My Wifi would not work at all when I updated my ROM but this utility fixed that and sped things up. I recommend backing up your device before executing because I have only tried this on QTEK 9100 with a beta 2.8 ROM.
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What exactly does this cab change?

Reconfiguring DNS may make a significant improvement?
I came across your post after my own concerns with my I-mate K-Jam (Wizard) WiFi performance. My GPRS connection was at least twice as fast.
My problem was that is was taking at least 30~60 seconds to locate a web page and another 10~15 seconds to open the page. Once connected it seemed to work OK but operation via GPRS was still faster.
My K-Jam has a ROM that permits G connection and my AP is set to G only. After reading all the articles in this post (and others), I ran the 600K download at DLSreports.com. To my surprise, my download rate was actually + 500kbit/sec which lead me to believe I might have DNS issues.
I used vxUtil (http://www.cam.com/windowsce.html) to check my DNS settings. My primary DNS being picked up from my DSL modem was the DSL modems gateway address which works fine in my Toshiba laptop. My secondary DNS was my ISP's backup.
I reconfigured my DSL modems DHCP server so that the DNS servers being dished up to my K-Jam are my ISP's primary and secondary servers and I performed a soft reset.
The speed increase was substantial! Pages are located and opened within 5 seconds now making my WiFi connection useable.
This may be worth a try for others with similar issues?

Wifi sucks on touch HD

When I first bought the touch HD I was thinking how good it would be to have this phone while having wifi with the lack of 3g for tmobile in the us, but it turns out that the wifi acutally suck! I have a iPod touch 2g And the wifi works great with blazing speed. I can't seem to detect my wifi at home mean while I'm connected on my wifi with my iPod. I been very disappoint with this phone for simple fact that this phone recieves wifi poorly. Anyone can help me out with this problem would be much appreciated because despite the wifi problem I love the phone cause the 3.8 screen is so damn sexual lol.

I've no such issues!
Try to set wifi power options to performance. Also, Enabling G Mode (with SKTools is one of the ways) helps improve speed.

Thanks for the info but it might be the lack of range of my router cause I have been on my wifi with the phone before but I get disconnected frequently and most the time it doesn't even show up or detect it but I don't have that problem with the iPod. With iPod I seem to get wifi everywhere. I'm starting to believe the iPod is better might sell it and get a iPhone or maybe a hero but don't know if I'm willing to spend 600+ on another phone

Next time put [rant] on the title

My wifi connects well to open, WEP, and WPA connections. I tried numerous access points (at least 30), even 802.11n APs in mixed g mode. It even connects to Apple Airport (802.11g). The connection is stable both on power saving and best performance, but I think I get much better speeds on average with best performance.
Its wifi range is much better than my little HP 613 smartphone, but again worse than my notebook. I get 54Mbit connection with signal quality of about 50% at 10 meters through a wall and then it automatically finds another channel on another AP. It roams (handover) APs better than some Lenovo r61 laptops around!
But I am not satisfied with its speed (even on best performance) - it finishes copying a 700MB file on a 54 Mbit connection in 30-40 minutes using total commander and saving on storage card. That means average speed is around 300-400KB/s - laptop does the same (same AP, same file, same network settings) at 1.6-1.8 MB/s in around 7 minutes.
I also noticed that saving on storage card is slighty faster than into the main memory...

I can't seem to detect my wifi at home mean while I'm connected on my wifi with my iPod.
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Hmm, are you sure that you don't compare two different situations ? Did you also try connecting to Wifi with your iPod while already being connected with your Blackstone ?
My personal experience shows me that the Touch HD seems to have a better radio than the iPhone 3G. Have you upgraded to the latest Blackstone stock ROM and radio available on the HTC website or XDA Devs ? Whether or not the radio also affects Wifi unfortunately I don't know.
Moreover, use WifiMonster to monitor the strength of the signal, it'll help you discover the best spots for using Wifi. I even receive Wifi signals from the neighbors' houses in my own house (not speaking about appartments), of course that always depends on the room !
BTW I'm pretty sure that a Hero won't solve your problem, it's the same old hardware specs as on the Blackstone.

The Wifi on my device works perfectly and i have had no issues at all with signal or quality. I have had more problems with my ipod than the HTC, are you sure its not the WIFI AP you are trying to connect to? Also are you using stock rom or custom?

I'm using the Energy ROM. I'm assume its my wifi signal its very weak and my touch hd cant seem to detect it. With my ipod i shows up and i can connect to it...will updating the radio make a difference?

I came across a startling discovery the other day regarding the Touch HD wifi. I was also having issues at home with weak wifi signal. I didn’t seem to have this problem with public access hot spots.
I have a Logitech wireless mouse connected to my computer and very rarely turn that computer off. I found that when my computer was off I would get a rock solid connection to my home wifi, but when the computer was on it would drop in and out. I narrowed it down to the wireless mouse was interfering with the Touch HD wifi connection.
I tried all different channels on my router, but as long as the Logitech mouse was plugged it I would get wifi dropouts. But as soon as I unplugged the mouse and the radio dongle, I wouldn’t have any problems with the Touch HD wifi.
I can’t comment if this is your issue, but something might be interfering in the 2.4Ghz with wifi.

Guys,
Sometimes even cordless phones, microwaves, etc will interfere with the connection.
Cheers.

As Poison Wolf correctly pointed out, other household items can interfere with the wireless frequency. Try changing the channel that's being used to transmit from your box (This will involve changing some settings on your wireless router so do some research before you fiddle around with it) I have had to do this before and can confirm it can make a massive difference.

ikovac said:
But I am not satisfied with its speed (even on best performance) - it finishes copying a 700MB file on a 54 Mbit connection in 30-40 minutes using total commander and saving on storage card. That means average speed is around 300-400KB/s - laptop does the same (same AP, same file, same network settings) at 1.6-1.8 MB/s in around 7 minutes.
I also noticed that saving on storage card is slighty faster than into the main memory...
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Everybody has this problem because the card seems not capable of more speed.
But it seems nearly nobody cares.
My old thread about his, no answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524272

str0nz0 said:
Everybody has this problem because the card seems not capable of more speed.
But it seems nearly nobody cares.
My old thread about his, no answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524272
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Stron,
Hmm, interesting. The only reasoning I can think of is that perhaps there's a limiting factor in order to reduce the heat or something? I don't see why they would cap the speeds.
Cheers.

What if it is capable of connecting at 54 Mbit, but can actually do only 11 Mbit? Nice trick. I hope it is just a bad idea.

[SOLVED] Wireless (WiFi) RX rate 1Mb/s

Issue solved !
My access point/wireless router (ASUS WL700gE) has a setting called "Data rate (Mbps)" which is factory set on "Auto". Manually setting this to 54Mb/s causes the Blackstone to connect to this speed.
After a little digging and testing, I've come to the following conclusion: the phone tries to connect to the lowest possible speed permitted by the network, probably to conserve power. If your access point allows connections to 1Mb/s, the phone will connect to this speed. In light of this fact, I've set up this parameter as 36Mb/s, since I think it's the value which best balances performance versus power consumption.
Here is the original post, with the original problem, for reference:
Hi all,
I'm a Touch HD/Dutty ROMs 6.[1|5] user. I've got this problem: regardless of the underlying WinMo version, wireless network receive rate seems to be always 1Mb/s. I've tried it in different locations, with and without walls between the HD and the access point, different TX power settings on the AP, different channels (in order to avoid interference), different advanced WiFi settings on the AP, in short: every possible scenarion. I'm inclined to suspect the radio, but I've got the 1.14 version and I wouldn't think that such a blatant bug as a limit of the RX rate would have made it to that version.
Anyone having the same problem ? Better yet, anyone having had the same problem and found the solution ?
Thanx for any pertinent suggestion !

hi, i'm not a guru, but i know that a 54mbit wireless network should transfer data at about 1.5mbyte per second the other bandwidth is used for manteining connecction between the devices so the real trhoughput is 1.5 mbyte per second. That make me think that there is nothing wrong with your phone.
gteets,
Nicola

paplino said:
Hi all,
I'm a Touch HD/Dutty ROMs 6.[1|5] user. I've got this problem: regardless of the underlying WinMo version, wireless network receive rate seems to be always 1Mb/s. I've tried it in different locations, with and without walls between the HD and the access point, different TX power settings on the AP, different channels (in order to avoid interference), different advanced WiFi settings on the AP, in short: every possible scenarion. I'm inclined to suspect the radio, but I've got the 1.14 version and I wouldn't think that such a blatant bug as a limit of the RX rate would have made it to that version.
Anyone having the same problem ? Better yet, anyone having had the same problem and found the solution ?
Thanx for any pertinent suggestion !
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you're getting 1 megabyte per second or 1 megabit?

The speed is 1 Megabit per second. I'm not speaking about "download speeds", it's about the connection speed, which *should* be as close to 54Mb/s as possible, since the internal wireless adapter is 802.11g compatible. Please note the lowercase b in Mb/s, as opposed to upper case B, which would mean bytes .

think when they say "802.11g compatible"
they mean the device will not force the whole wifi network down
to 10Mbit like slower devices normaly do
think qualcomm's wifi performance is just that slow in general

TC,
How hot does it get when you use it 54mb/s?
Also, I strongly advise against using it at that speeds whilst charging the device simultaneously.
Cheers.
paplino said:
Issue solved !
My access point/wireless router (ASUS WL700gE) has a setting called "Data rate (Mbps)" which is factory set on "Auto". Manually setting this to 54Mb/s causes the Blackstone to connect to this speed.
After a little digging and testing, I've come to the following conclusion: the phone tries to connect to the lowest possible speed permitted by the network, probably to conserve power. If your access point allows connections to 1Mb/s, the phone will connect to this speed. In light of this fact, I've set up this parameter as 36Mb/s, since I think it's the value which best balances performance versus power consumption.
Here is the original post, with the original problem, for reference:
Hi all,
I'm a Touch HD/Dutty ROMs 6.[1|5] user. I've got this problem: regardless of the underlying WinMo version, wireless network receive rate seems to be always 1Mb/s. I've tried it in different locations, with and without walls between the HD and the access point, different TX power settings on the AP, different channels (in order to avoid interference), different advanced WiFi settings on the AP, in short: every possible scenarion. I'm inclined to suspect the radio, but I've got the 1.14 version and I wouldn't think that such a blatant bug as a limit of the RX rate would have made it to that version.
Anyone having the same problem ? Better yet, anyone having had the same problem and found the solution ?
Thanx for any pertinent suggestion !
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PoisonWolf said:
TC,
How hot does it get when you use it 54mb/s?
Also, I strongly advise against using it at that speeds whilst charging the device simultaneously.
Cheers.
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Well, I haven't tried it at 54 Mb/s, I just saw it working and then set the router on 36 (exactly because I was afraid of overheating). What is pretty neat, though, is that I watched an entire movie, shared on the LAN, from my desktop computer, with the wireless connected at 36 Mb/s, without any serious overheating. The bottom part of the device was, indeed, a little warm to the touch, but that happens even when watching movies from the SD card, probably it's the video controller at work. I regret not checking the battery, before and after, but I'll repeat the experience and I'll post the results.

paplino said:
Well, I haven't tried it at 54 Mb/s, I just saw it working and then set the router on 36 (exactly because I was afraid of overheating). What is pretty neat, though, is that I watched an entire movie, shared on the LAN, from my desktop computer, with the wireless connected at 36 Mb/s, without any serious overheating. The bottom part of the device was, indeed, a little warm to the touch, but that happens even when watching movies from the SD card, probably it's the video controller at work. I regret not checking the battery, before and after, but I'll repeat the experience and I'll post the results.
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Pap,
Thank you very much for checking. I look forward to seeing how hot it gets. I've noticed that even just from casual browsing under stock settings with the WIFI set to best battery, the phone is noticeably hotter even just after 20 ~ 30 minutes of surfing. I can only imagine what 54/mbs would do to the phone. Lawl.
Cheers.

I had the same symptoms, especially with WinMo 6.5 (I've even complained about this in a few threads). The phone was overheating like crazy, even when I was just reading e-books (so no data connection, no phone, no video applications, just a text displayed on the screen). What changed everything was an advice from another forum member (makbil): never forget to hard reset after flashing. After my latest flash, I hard reset the device and it's working perfectly.
Coming back on the topic of wireless networking, I would like to add that, after perfoming the tweak from the first post, I noticed a marked decrease in connection time. Now, the connection to the wireless network after I turn on the device (from sleep state, not from a total poweroff, of course) is almost instantaneous.
Oh, and I promised to check the battery consumption with intensive usage of WiFi. I tested with 2 succesive playbacks of the same 45 minutes video, first playback from SD card, second playback from a Windows share on my desktop computer. In both instances the battery was 100% full.
The results: At the end of the SD card playback, the battery meter was still indicating 100%. At the end of the LAN playback, the battery was 98%. No additional heating between the two tries.

Slow WIFI connection...

How come I get so slow speeds when copying a file over WIFI from my desktop computer? I get about 420kb/s and when I check the WIFI connection the signal quality is 70% or higher and connected at Tx 54Mbps / Rx 48Mbps.. Shouldn't I get something like a few Mb/s with that connection??
Using Resco Explorer to access shared folder on desktop computer and copy files btw...

Is it set for best battery? If it is, that's the problem.

No.. Best performance...
Any idea why its only giving me 450ish Kb/s? What SHOULD I be getting with 54Mbps?
The WIFI router is a Zyxel P-320W btw.. It supports 802.11b/g..

Preed said:
No.. Best performance...
Any idea why its only giving me 450ish Kb/s? What SHOULD I be getting with 54/48Mbps?
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if you read specification of your phone you should know this, taken from htc homepage
Up to 7.2 Mbps download speed
Up to 2 Mbps upload speed
so i dont think it matters if you got 54/48Mbps
this is my guess to your issue
someone right me if im wrong here..

jaghardittnamn said:
if you read specification of your phone you should know this, taken from htc homepage
Up to 7.2 Mbps download speed
Up to 2 Mbps upload speed
so i dont think it matters if you got 54/48Mbps
this is my guess to your issue
someone right me if im wrong here..
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Damn.. Thats slow.. Can't even watch XViD's over WIFI..

you might want to enable wireless N through either BSB Tweaks or
Tboy2000's thread...it might help?

jaghardittnamn said:
if you read specification of your phone you should know this, taken from htc homepage
Up to 7.2 Mbps download speed
Up to 2 Mbps upload speed
so i dont think it matters if you got 54/48Mbps
this is my guess to your issue
someone right me if im wrong here..
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7.2 Mbps = HSDPA, 2 Mbps = HSUPA
NOT WiFi

So what is the supported WIFI speeds on the HD2? 802.11b/g is supposed to be alot faster than the ~5 mbits I seem to be getting Or is the network(WIFI/HSDPA etc) controller limited to 7.2mbps be it WIFI or through 3G?

Well, those 7.2mbps and 2.0mbps are probably not wireless specifications as they stand for HSDPA connection. Wireless speeds are specified by 802.11 standards, e.g. 802.11a supports up to 2mbps bandwidth, 802.11b up top 11mbps and 802.11g 54mbps. so, these should be the speedlimits for HD2. I have seen that it is possible to enable 802.11n for HD2 but i havent tryed it out yet as I have difficulties using wireless with my HD2 even with the slow speeds.
no matter where I try to use wifi, it works for ~30secs and after that the phone can't find any wireless networks, sometimes even hangs. After waiting for about 1 minute, it finds wifi again and same scenario happens again and again. It hasn't worked right from the moment I took it out of the box. should return it probably but before that, maybe someone has had same problem and knows what the reason is for that?