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Just scored 0.12 mbps on download and 0.10 on upload.
How can I improve this ? Make my phone faster
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going to need more info about your phone...ex...version,rooted or non rooted,any kernel...like that...

just did mine and it was 2.53 dl and 1.08 up...with nero3 beta...

...and are you using Speedtest to measure 3G or your wifi or what?
I'm sitting in my house right now in a major metropolitan area and the 3G speed on my stock Vibrant is about 4.2 Mbps down and 1.8 Mbps up. When I turn on the phone's wifi connection to my Fios network, I get about 22-24 Mbps down and about 3-4 Mbps up. If I move around or go outside, these speeds will vary.

leechdweler said:
Just scored 0.12 mbps on download and 0.10 on upload.
How can I improve this ? Make my phone faster
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It appears as though you have exceeded the 5gb data limit. After this billing cycle is over, your connection will return to normal.

Ya that might b it. I'll run it again when billing cycle ends
Thanks
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leechdweler said:
Ya that might b it. I'll run it again when billing cycle ends
Thanks
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You should know. You would have gotten a text.
Jesus...

Or you can reboot and try again. You also might be in an area with a high amount of data traffic. For example when i'm at disneyland, I get full bars but my data speeds are crazy slow. It's probably the same when at a sporting event. 40k people and at least half of them with smart phones trying to access the internets will cause a slow down. But like the other guys said, we're going to need more information.

Ditto, sounds like your being throttled. Try it on wifi. Remember, download **** on wifi if you can. Don't go rom crazy on 3G.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.

Recently I was in phoenix and the 3g was full bars buy totally unreliable. I switched to edge and it was three times faster than hspa
You might want to switch to only gsm network and see if that helps
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So if the phone can get those speeds over wifi would I get those speeds over 3g/4g if it were available?
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goldeman said:
So if the phone can get those speeds over wifi would I get those speeds over 3g/4g if it were available?
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No. The fastest you will see from this phone is a little over 5Mb's down (in near perfect conditions) and i'm not sure about upload but the fastest i've ever had was 1.8Mb up.

Even if it were available over the T-Mobile ? Why or why not...just trying to get a better understanding as to why over wifi and not over the network IF it were available
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Paging Dr B said:
No. The fastest you will see from this phone is a little over 5Mb's down (in near perfect conditions) and i'm not sure about upload but the fastest i've ever had was 1.8Mb up.
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Agreed! The vibrant is not a HSPA+ device meaning it is not "4G"

leechdweler said:
Just scored 0.12 mbps on download and 0.10 on upload.
How can I improve this ? Make my phone faster
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kinda need more. did you have WAYY higher data speeds before? your problem could be 1 of 2 things...maybe both.
1)Bad coverage
2)data throttle
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872570
check my thread about a temporary fix for throttling. its just easy as changing the APNs. i'm working on a permanent fix by creating a services.jar mod,but its not working out so well.

This is ungodly slow? 4 speed
leechdweler said:
Just scored 0.12 mbps on download and 0.10 on upload.
How can I improve this ? Make my phone faster
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1.36 Mps download. An.. 10 upload
Text me at 4177639597 plz anyone? I'm running Htc Cdma Rooted Hero w / Modaco Rom

rjmfa said:
1.36 Mps download. An.. 10 upload
Text me at 4177639597 plz anyone? I'm running Htc Cdma Rooted Hero w / Modaco Rom
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thats sprint tho....this is tmobile.
AND to the OP,this are the speeds im getting now.... 12pm Dec 26,2010

ZX3ZX4 said:
...and are you using Speedtest to measure 3G or your wifi or what?
I'm sitting in my house right now in a major metropolitan area and the 3G speed on my stock Vibrant is about 4.2 Mbps down and 1.8 Mbps up. When I turn on the phone's wifi connection to my Fios network, I get about 22-24 Mbps down and about 3-4 Mbps up. If I move around or go outside, these speeds will vary.
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How are you getting that high of internet speeds using your FIOS network? I have FIOS 30Mbps download and 15Mbps upload, and the highest download speed I've gotten on my Vibrant is 13Mbps. I am using a D-Link Wireless N Router (2.4 and 5ghz) which consistently gives my wireless computers 30Mbps, but not my cell phone.
I'm curious to hear what radio you're using and your current setup (router, router settings, service plan, phone settings, etc). If anyone else has any ideas, please let me know what you're doing to get above 13Mbps on Wifi.
- Mat

Paging Dr B said:
No. The fastest you will see from this phone is a little over 5Mb's down (in near perfect conditions) and i'm not sure about upload but the fastest i've ever had was 1.8Mb up.
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Just did mine in New Port Richey, Florida.
5.73 Mbps Download
1.48 Mbps Upload

I believe our phones are capable of 7.2Mbps download on our Hsdpa network connection. Most of the new t-mobile phones that are coming out are capable of about double the download and upload speeds that we can actually achieve.
- Mat
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SLOW tethering speeds

Is anyone else getting REEEALLLY slow tethering speeds. Main reason why I purchased this phone. I came from a touch pro 2 that had 56k modem dial up speeds. And when I tether from this its even worse. The google home page is taking at least 10 seconds to load. Anyone else getting these type of speeds or what are your speeds? 3G and 4G? BTW I'm using wireless tether with temp root!
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Easytether pro is what I'm using now. I got fed up with pdanet. This isn't wireless tethering. Barnacle was good too.

I get extremely slow speeds too.

Can someone else test there tethering to see if its slow too
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Tethering Sucks

I never use tethering, but my connection is down, so I get setup and this blows. It's so slow, pages just time out and I keep getting intermittent DNS errors.
THIS is what people are all gaga over?
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Are you tethering in an area where Sprint's 3g is slow?

Is there an area where it's not slow?
Btw, I tried wireless and USB tethering. Both sucked
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All depends for me. Obviously it'll vary with area. I only break it out for the chromebook when I absolutely need it.
rawr free Dirk rawr

HipKat said:
Is there an area where it's not slow?
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Plenty of areas.

Not here, apparently, but then everything here sucks
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It must just be your area. I tether my EVO connection all the time and have no issues. I use it for browsing as well as playing games on xbox live and netflix. It works great.
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Works perfectly fine here.
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It "works" here...but it's something I use in a pinch. I got an overdrive to reduce my hassle factor. Same signal and it's far faster.

maybe im crazy but does wifi hotspot work with 4g? I swear my tethering is pretty damn fast when i turn on 4g...

Are all of yall paying for hotspot or is it the wifi tether and can u post speeds please on 4g
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Hey hipkat...my wireless tether is almost twice as fast as my home WiFi. And my home WiFi is pretty damn fast....Works great for me.

You guys are lucky then, and today, I used USB tethering again, and damned if it didn't kill my WiFi... again.
I get a connection, but nothing will update, browser won't connect, etc. They all say no connection.
I'm not even sure how I fixed it yesterday. I think it just came back "on"

mattykinsx said:
Are you tethering in an area where Sprint's 3g is slow?
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AKA: are you tethering anywhere in the us?

At my house i average 1.5mbps on 3g, and at work where i have 4g i average 7mbps.

HipKat said:
You guys are lucky then, and today, I used USB tethering again, and damned if it didn't kill my WiFi... again.
I get a connection, but nothing will update, browser won't connect, etc. They all say no connection.
I'm not even sure how I fixed it yesterday. I think it just came back "on"
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Are you using Windows 7? I had that problem with my moms computer (running win7) after I setup easytether for her. It didn't want to connect to WiFi. I have had no problems on my pc running Vista.
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At home I average about 4-5mbps down, 1.0-1.5mbps up.
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billbowers said:
Hey hipkat...my wireless tether is almost twice as fast as my home WiFi. And my home WiFi is pretty damn fast....Works great for me.
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LOL
Either you're maxing on 4G or you're 'laxing' on the home internetz. Either way, many of us won't have 4G touching our home service.
As for speeds, and people saying 'it's fine here,' it all depends. Obviously area and coverage is going to dictate speeds. As stated, if Peoria sucks, well it sucks and it will be mirrored in your efforts to tether. You can't tether faster than your available speeds. Naturally.
I can get amazing speeds around campus but around home it's 'meh.' So, naturally, when tethering around school it's usually decent but around here it isn't. Make sense? Thank the good (raptor) lord for the WiFi.
It should be obvious that coverage and native speeds dictate your connection.

Anyone know where I can find tether drivers for XP? I tried the tetherxp.info from android.com but when I try to install them it says its not for my phone. IM using MIUI if it makes a difference.
Also plz no links to tether apps.
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Bluetooth Tethering

Here is my situation.
I have 2.3.7, stock, rooted, using Pete's 2.6.35.14 kernel. I installed wireless tether 2.0.8 pre-1 and set it to use bluetooth tethering. It works great, even via 4G. My issue however, is that it only works great to 1 device. My laptop, or my Galaxy Tab 10.1, connect perfectly fine and there are no issues. If I try to connect the other device (whichever other, doesn't matter the order from what I've tried) it won't work.
If I have my laptop connected first, then on my Tab, it will say it is connected in the bluetooth settings menu, but there is no internet access and there is no bluetooth tethering icon down by the clock.
If I have the Tab connected first, then try my laptop it will also say connection successful but then down on the taskbar the internet icon will have the little exclamation point and it will say no internet access.
Soooo..... is there a way to connect multiple devices via bluetooth? I really really hope so, but perhaps this is just a limitation of the PAN profile in bluetooth, or maybe the phone is only using the DUN profile or something. But in all my searching I haven't found an answer and I just don't know myself. Any devs out there know?

Why not just use Wifi to tether multiple devices?

jonnythan said:
Why not just use Wifi to tether multiple devices?
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Because 4G tethering via wifi doesn't work (in infrastructure mode, anyway), unless you pay the $29.99 to Sprint, which I am currently doing. But in my opinion, it is BS that they charge this. And given I very rarely use tethering, I hate paying for it.

supercluver said:
Because 4G tethering via wifi doesn't work (in infrastructure mode, anyway), unless you pay the $29.99 to Sprint, which I am currently doing. But in my opinion, it is BS that they charge this. And given I very rarely use tethering, I hate paying for it.
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You know Pete has the wireless tether fix that unlocks the sprint tethering.
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Rem3Dy said:
You know Pete has the wireless tether fix that unlocks the sprint tethering.
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This only unlocks the 3G tethering though, not 4G. Right? Or did I miss where that was also fixed?

I thought on nexus s 4g was free tethering on google own app on 3g and 4g?
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tech7 said:
I thought on nexus s 4g was free tethering on google own app on 3g and 4g?
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Nope, not true. When it first was out, 3G was.... but subsequent updates have stopped even that.

I think the max on Bluetooth tethering is something like 2 MB download so make sure your getting all you can.
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No other thoughts on this?
Yeah David279, it probably isn't fast enough to get full 4G speeds, but still plenty fast for the little bit I'd use it.... oh well, I guess I'll keep paying $29.99 a month until someone figures out how to do infrastructure in wifi tether on the Nexus S (or until I buy the prime if it ends up on Sprint).

Have u try the latest beta of wifi tether
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Slow wifi tethering

Hi I have slow wifi tethering I have tryed all roms and no joy if I do a speed test on my phone using the speed test app off the market I get about 4meg any ideas will help to fix the problem I will use any from
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dj_crash1981 said:
Hi I have slow wifi tethering I have tryed all roms and no joy if I do a speed test on my phone using the speed test app off the market I get about 4meg any ideas will help to fix the problem I will use any from
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You 100% positive that you are still on 3G when tethering? Sometimes it will cut down to EDGE depending on signal strength. Plus do you do the speed test app RIGHT before or after tethering and in the same location? Secondly, how are your internet speeds using wired tethered? Maybe your computers wireless NIC is faulty.

I get hspa when I do the speed test. I can do one before and one during and post the speeds here if that helps. i dont do usb tetherin
Phone was left in the same place
***4.9 meg before tethering turned on
***3.8 meg after tethering turned on
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dj_crash1981 said:
I get hspa when I do the speed test. I can do one before and one during and post the speeds here if that helps. i dont do usb tetherin
Phone was left in the same place
***4.9 meg before tethering turned on
***3.8 meg after tethering turned on
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Ok now connect your PC and go to speedtest.net and try a speed test on there using your computer.