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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
Today I had my vogue plugged into my laptop running windows 7 to transfer some files and decided to open opera mobile and goto testmy.net to do some speed tests. I then realized that my phone was using my laptops internet connection to browse the web when testmy.net reported a different ip address and reported my internet provider as comcast. I didn't do any tweaking at all except for turning internet sharing on in Windows 7 and when I tried to do this a couple months ago on Vista when I didn't have a data plan I couldn't get it to work and gave up on it. I know some people were trying to figure out how to get it to work like I was and never really found a solution or at least I didn't so maybe this will help someone without a data plan that wants to connect to web on their vogue.
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Today I had my vogue plugged into my laptop running windows 7 to transfer some files and decided to open opera mobile and goto testmy.net to do some speed tests. I then realized that my phone was using my laptops internet connection to browse the web when testmy.net reported a different ip address and reported my internet provider as comcast. I didn't do any tweaking at all except for turning internet sharing on in Windows 7 and when I tried to do this a couple months ago on Vista when I didn't have a data plan I couldn't get it to work and gave up on it. I know some people were trying to figure out how to get it to work like I was and never really found a solution or at least I didn't so maybe this will help someone without a data plan that wants to connect to web on their vogue.
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I don't have a data plan & I can browse the web using my phone. Granted I am using NASFAN's ROM.
Is anyone else getting this problem with internet explorer? Web pages takes forever to load whereas the stock browser on android was much faster. Do you guys have any suggestion on how to fix this, since i have tested the speed at multiple places and still getting the same slow result.
Actually,I found it faster.
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I thought the internet speeds were very close to what I had on Android
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what the heck
Thats weird i did all the steps correctly using the guides i dont know its so slow... did you guys do anything special on your phone?
Fasty12 said:
Is anyone else getting this problem with internet explorer? Web pages takes forever to load whereas the stock browser on android was much faster. Do you guys have any suggestion on how to fix this, since i have tested the speed at multiple places and still getting the same slow result.
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I'm with the same problem...
Do you gave 3G disabled, maybe Without 3G web pages would surely be a pain to use.
For me personally IE works like a charm. If this thing would have a password manager it would be my personal favourite mobile browser.
Fasty12 said:
Thats weird i did all the steps correctly using the guides i dont know its so slow... did you guys do anything special on your phone?
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check your APN settings, should show:
APN - epc.tmobile.com
Username - none
password - ****
Oh forgot to mention that i dont have a data plan, use mainly wifi for my internet needs
Navigon downloaded yesterday some 400 MB of maps through my home WiFi and it took no more than 5 min. As i'm on 12 Mbit ADSL I guess WiFi speed is more than OK on WP7.
Never tried IE Mobile through WiFi cause I'm on unlimited data and it makes no sense to use WiFi.
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Navigon downloaded yesterday some 400 MB of maps through my home WiFi and it took no more than 5 min. As i'm on 12 Mbit ADSL I guess WiFi speed is more than OK on WP7.
Never tried IE Mobile through WiFi cause I'm on unlimited data and it makes no sense to use WiFi.
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After upgrading from a 1GB card to an 8GB card I have also a very slow internet connection.
I tried to download maps for Navigon and failed because less storage space.
After changing to an other 8GB µSD card (do a software hardreset & reconfigure my device) I mentioned that syncspeed & downloads are very slow (ethernet & WiFi).
The download of Navigon maps takes aprox. 6 hours. :-( ==> (8Mbit Internet connection)
mobile HSDPA connection seems ok.
speed was awesome withouth sd card for me, with sd card the phone seems to be very slow overall
I'd like to move video files from my Linux server to my Nexus 7. But I can't seem to get good transfer speeds. All transfers are over the LAN; no Internet hops involved.
Part 1:
I've tried using cafeFTP for SFTP and I consistently get speeds around 300 KB/s.
I've tried using AndSMB for Samba and I consistently get speeds around 400 KB/s (and Samba has file name issues).
I tried getting MTP to work, but it was really flaky; and I'd prefer a wireless solution.
My laptop (running Linux) transfers the same files via SFTP at up to 3 MB/s.
What kinds of speeds are people usually getting?
This is my first Android device so I have no other experience with Android transfer speeds.
Part 2
Best solution for transferring files from Linux to Nexus 7 without interacting with Linux machine (headless server)?
Also, does anyone have a solution that actually works to queue up a large transfer and keep trying until it's done? Both cafeFTP and AndSMB disconnect arbitrarily and then I have to reconnect and restart the transfers. This is incredibly inconvenient when trying to move a couple of movies overnight.
Misc. Info
My router is a WRT54GL running Tomato; I've been through its settings, but didn't find anything I thought would help.
I have done tons of searching about this; but there are so many garbage sites with no useful information covered in ads. I'm having a really hard time finding reputable information.
Thanks.
What sort of speeds do you get on a PC vs a PC?
EDIT: Blind.
What link speed are you getting in wireless info?
My speed with amdsmb copying from win 7 network drive to tablet
Mines fine. Using Linksys E-1500 2.4GHz 802.11n
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What sort of speeds do you get on a PC vs a PC?
EDIT: Blind.
What link speed are you getting in wireless info?
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Showing 54 MB/s for both the laptop and the Nexus 7: Full 802.11g connection. Server is 100 MB/s.
Edit: I'm going to check the information when I get home to make sure I'm not idiotically mixing up bits and bytes...
Edit2: Checked info (updated original post for clarity):
SFTP: Laptop 802.11g transferring at 1.9 MB/s. Nexus 7 802.11g transferring at ~300KB/s
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Mines fine. Using Linksys E-1500 2.4GHz 802.11n
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Isn't 800 KB/s pretty slow for an 802.11n connection?
My laptop transfers the same files at up to 3 MB/s over 802.11g (shouldn't you be getting like 3x that on 802.11n?) . But I'm only getting around 1/10th that on my Nexus 7.
Using FTP I get ~2MB/s. Strange
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Amitola85 said:
Isn't 800 KB/s pretty slow for an 802.11n connection?
My laptop transfers the same files at up to 3 MB/s over 802.11g (shouldn't you be getting like 3x that on 802.11n?) . But I'm only getting around 1/10th that on my Nexus 7.
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Well 800 kB/s is slow even for wireless G which should go 2.5-3 MB/s.
As for N these devices don't have 40 MHz channels so rather than 150 Mbps they are limited to 65 or 72 Mbps link rate, which should translate to about 3.5 MB/s
well i wonder what my problem is then. I have a netgear N300 and my win 7 drive is hardwired to it with ethernet.
I setup a plain FTP server which is getting transfer speeds of ~2100 KB/s. So that's MUCH better.
Perhaps the Nexus 7 just struggles with SFTP (encryption overhead makes this understandable) and Samba (not sure why it's so slow, just cause Samba is lame?).
Guess I'll be doing all my transfers over FTP. This makes me much less grumpy.
Just to recap, here are the transfer speeds I was seeing over 802.11g (54 Mbs connection) from a wired server running Linux:
SFTP: ~300 KB/s (cafeFTP)
Samba: ~400 KB/s (AndSMB)
FTP: ~2,100 KB/s (cafeFTP)
Edit: Current hypothesis is that SFTP and Samba were both maxing out the CPU. I haven't checked with a app to measure it, but the tablet did get hot during those transfers. If that's the case it may be implementation specific and other SFTP / Samba implementations may be more efficient and achieve higher speeds.
Using ES File Explorer and logging onto my windows share, I got file transfers of 700-900KB/sec, pretty poor.
So I set up an FTPServer on android and FileZilla on desktop and I get around 2.8MB/sec on transfers.
Salty Wagyu said:
Using ES File Explorer and logging onto my windows share, I got file transfers of 700-900KB/sec, pretty poor.
So I set up an FTPServer on android and FileZilla on desktop and I get around 2.8MB/sec on transfers.
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Sorry for resurrecting a year-old thread but I just wanted to thank you for the suggestion of using FTP as the transfer mode as opposed to Samba. It's definitely a bit faster (~700-850KB/s vs 1.5-1.7MB/s). I don't know why you installed FTPServer on your Nexus 7 though, since ES File Manager is an FTP client as well.
I have the same issue:
During copy/move large file i.e. 2-3GB from Nexus 10 to Qnap NAS with ES file explorer I get max. 2.5Mb/s .
Is that normal or pretty slow?
My access point is this one: TP-link tl-wa901nd
karasuhebi said:
I don't know why you installed FTPServer on your Nexus 7 though, since ES File Manager is an FTP client as well.
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There's a big difference between an FTP server and an FTP client. if you use a client on Android, you need a server on your PC.
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There's a big difference between an FTP server and an FTP client. if you use a client on Android, you need a server on your PC.
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Right, thanks. Don't know what I was thinking lol.
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friend1 said:
I have the same issue:
During copy/move large file i.e. 2-3GB from Nexus 10 to Qnap NAS with ES file explorer I get max. 2.5Mb/s .
Is that normal or pretty slow?
My access point is this one: TP-link tl-wa901nd
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What's normal on your network is whatever is normal for your network. We wouldn't be able to tell you since there's so many factors that could affect speed. There is something you could use as a sort of measure though: Try a PC-to-NAS file transfer and check what kind of speeds you get there. It's not a scientific way to do it by no means but it should give you a rough estimate of the speed you should expect on transfers to your N10.
I have a Galaxy S4 with the newest firmware from samsung I9505XXUGNF1 (Kitkat 4.4.2). My router is a Asus RT-AC66U to which My S4 connects to with max speed of 433 Mbps. My internet connection is 120 Mbps.
When I do a speedtest on the S4 I get results of over 110 Mbps, but when I'm downloading a file over LAN from the disk connected directly to the router I get download speed only of ~20Mbps (2.4 MB/s) which is very sucky!
My Laptop have only a N network card, and connects to the router with max 300 Mbps and when I download the same file I get over 7.5 MB/s!! (~65 Mbps).
Speedtest also shows results of over 110 Mbps...
I remember when the phone was new, and it had Android 4.3, I had LAN download speed of over 9-10 MB/s...
I tried with different file managers like X-Plore and others, but it looks like it is not the app problem.
Have you tried transferring a file over FTP?
I am trying to copy files through LAN using ES file explorer and it is painfully slow.
That said, my wifi appear to be fast enough (I get 54Mbps up/down which means, it should write at few MB/s)
Does not matter whether I am writing to the internal storage or external storage.
Not just ES file explorer, midnight commander also is having an issue.
I am wondering whether Nougat upgrade breaks SMB access/stack for some reason.
Can someone confirm/verify?
Just checked and downloads from my cloud account is not affected so it isn't my SD card speed issue nor the wifi issue (I get solid 3.5MB/sec download from cloud).
Just tried to copy the same file on my windows tablet and I can do solid 7-8MB/sec transfer so it isn't the source speed either.
I just can't pinpoint what the issue may be. I can swear that the speed was just fine prior to Nougat upgrade.
BTW, when I say "painfully slow", it is like 2-300KB/s speed.
I just read that same thing was happening with Galaxy Note 7 as well. Very slow access to SMB/CIFS.
I enabled FTP access to my NAS and it is now transferring at around 9MB/sec.
I wonder why the SMB/CIFS access is slow.