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I want FASTER HERO wifi speeds?

Sorry is this sounds stupid but how come the wifi speeds on the hero suck, i have 24mb down and 3mb up and my phone only can pick up 1.50mb down and 1mb up? Like is this the standard for phones or something? Shouldnt they be able to handle way faster wifi speeds? I read something a while back how some kid hacked the nexus one to run wireless n drivers i dont know how true that was but he had a video to back it up so idk it seemed pretty legit to me. Is there anything i can do to increase wifi speeds because its about the same as running on evdo and that sucks donkey d**k. any responses are kool
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UPDATE: Well i figured out why my wifi was only pulling only 1mb down on my hero it was because my routers settings were at wireless b only and b is old technology, so i changed my routers signal to wireless g and it jumped from 1mb to now its 5mb down. Problem solved...

Is 24 down/3 up your rated internet connection speed? Because I think you can really only get that kind of speed through a wired ethernet connection... wifi speeds cap out much earlier, even though routers might say 54 Mb/s ... which translates to ~6.75 MB/s, they never ever get that high in my experience. Note the different between Megabytes and Megabits. 8 bits = 1 byte.
TBH it sounds like you may have maxed out your wifi speed, depending on your wifi signal.

c00ller said:
Is 24 down/3 up your rated internet connection speed? Because I think you can really only get that kind of speed through a wired ethernet connection... wifi speeds cap out much earlier, even though routers might say 54 Mb/s ... which translates to ~6.75 MB/s, they never ever get that high in my experience. Note the different between Megabytes and Megabits. 8 bits = 1 byte.
TBH it sounds like you may have maxed out your wifi speed, depending on your wifi signal.
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most of what you said is true. however you can get much faster out of a wireless router. I have seen up to 30mb out of a wireless router. that being said. depending on your signal strength to your router you may experience slow downs as the router resends packets that either get corrupted or never make it due to interference and/or attenuation.
i have experienced the same thing. i use my laptop wifi and my phone wifi within inches of each other and have widely different speed test results. no idea why unless there is either a restriction or limitation with the phones driver/chipset

ok not trying to be rude or anything but i dont think u guys are reading correctly; my internet that i pay for is 24mb and 3mb up, wireless with my laptop since its wireless N is about 18mb down and 2mb up, but im referring to MY PHONE (HERO), i know speeds are faster on ethernet but how am i going to plug my hero via ethernet? that what i was asking, my question was why does my phone only connect up to 1.50 mb out of whatever my max speed is, is that all the hero can handle is 1.50mb? I guess the title was misleading cause it said faster wifi speeds and not faster HERO wifi speeds but i corrected it but thanks for ur responses guys

What site are you using to check your speeds? If it's speedtest.net then you may have it set to megabytes instead of megabits. If my math is right (don't count on it being anywhere close) then your differences in speed could be blamed on that.
I don't know of any way to "make it faster" besides moving closer to the router.
Off-Topic: My sig has my speed at OSU and its via wi-fi. I've had double that when not at peak times.

mbobino said:
What site are you using to check your speeds? If it's speedtest.net then you may have it set to megabytes instead of megabits. If my math is right (don't count on it being anywhere close) then your differences in speed could be blamed on that.
I don't know of any way to "make it faster" besides moving closer to the router.
Off-Topic: My sig has my speed at OSU and its via wi-fi. I've had double that when not at peak times.
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there is a speedtest.net app in the android market and u can test ur speeds, my hero can only pick up 1.5mb down out of my 24mb max speed.

i am in same ...
get about 2MB up and 1MB down.
My speculation:
I think it is the HERO ..
it is capped
or it can only process the Data coming in.. at a slower speed.
raido or CPU or the combination

Dan330 said:
i am in same ...
get about 2MB up and 1MB down.
My speculation:
I think it is the HERO ..
it is capped
or it can only process the Data coming in.. at a slower speed.
raido or CPU or the combination
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lol thanks you this is the answer i was looking for now i can sleep lol
UPDATE: wow so i feel really stupid i just changed my routers settings from wireless b to wireless g and it went from 1mb down cap to 5mb ahahaha oh my i feel stupid, now my internet was flying i knew something was weird because 1mb down was like i was still on evdo but on wife it didnt make sense to me.

How did you change the router settings to g from b?
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My down is .7 Mb and up is 2.5 Mb, I know way backwards! It dont matter what sever I use either, my router is set to G only, I even tried B and mixed, lol. I only pay for 12 down and 2 up, dang near exactly what I get on my PC, my hero just lags Runs same on wifi as it does on 3G both results are dang near the same!

dad0507 said:
How did you change the router settings to g from b?
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i went in to my routers settings and the default ip address to access it. I have att uverse and i went in the settings and switched it to g and my wifi is way faster man i dont know how i went almost a year with wifi speeds of 1mb down, now im on g and my hero pics up 6mbs on a good day wooohooo.

dirkyd3rk said:
i went in to my routers settings and the default ip address to access it. I have att uverse and i went in the settings and switched it to g and my wifi is way faster man i dont know how i went almost a year with wifi speeds of 1mb down, now im on g and my hero pics up 6mbs on a good day wooohooo.
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This is working for you all, why isnt it working for me? I am set to wireless G on my router, ogged into to router by putting http://192.168.1.1/ into address bar, clicked wireless settings and changed from Mixed (b and g) to G. It didnt help my ol' hero Still got .7 Mb for down and 2.5 Mb for up. Totally backwards!

Did u try hitting apply in your router settings before u left the web page and waited for the page to close then try powering down ur router and powering it back up after waiting 3 to 5 min but this step you only need to do if you changed the router settings via wireless meaning if your changing your wireless settings while being connected to your wireless network IMO always changes ur router settings via landline and don't forget to hit apply if you didn't already do so just something to try hope it helps good luck
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laie1472 said:
Did u try hitting apply in your router settings before u left the web page and waited for the page to close then try powering down ur router and powering it back up after waiting 3 to 5 min but this step you only need to do if you changed the router settings via wireless meaning if your changing your wireless settings while being connected to your wireless network IMO always changes ur router settings via landline and don't forget to hit apply if you didn't already do so just something to try hope it helps good luck
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Yes, it was originally set to both B and G, this is a issue I have been having for a while now. I just never posted it, now that I seen this thread I decided to follow i and try whatever was recommended. My laptop gets the 12 down and same 2.5 up as my phone, just my phone only gets .7 Mb down. I have tried several servers, ran same servers as my laptop watching it pull 12 down and the hero .7 Is there a setting somewhere that is making me lag? I am using same kernels as everyone else, its been the same with all of them though

In cm6 settings / wifi setting wen u get there push the menu and go to advance wireless settings and select regulatory domains and try a different channel its set to 11 by default try that and hopefully that helps good luck oh and you might wanna go and pick up a new router or update ur current drivers on your existing one also take ur hero to a different wifi connection and test ur ul/dl speeds hope this helps
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cordell12 said:
This is working for you all, why isnt it working for me? I am set to wireless G on my router, ogged into to router by putting http://192.168.1.1/ into address bar, clicked wireless settings and changed from Mixed (b and g) to G. It didnt help my ol' hero Still got .7 Mb for down and 2.5 Mb for up. Totally backwards!
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It's not the phone dude you need to get into your routers settings and make sure its set to g only if you are getting .7 dwn something is terribly wrong man. What kind of router do you have? For example if its a linksys Google linksys login the model number and it will tell you how to login. The Linksys gateway is usually 192.168.1.1 is how you login. Also Firefox and Google chrome don't usually play nice with intranet try using internet explorer to do this. I have a netgear router and to login its www.mywifiext.net. let me know details maybe I can help you

I have no problems accessing my router settings. I dud a little testing, swapping rom's and kernels. I found it to be a kernel issue. Running BFS #14 is .7 down. Switching to CFS kernel I pull the 2.5 down. So I tried BFS #13, same issue. I posted in the kernel thread and didn't get any response. The posts get buried pretty fast in that thread. My phone does better with the BFS kernels, besides the wifi issue. What if anything can be echo into kernel to fix this? Or can someone else flash BFS and confirm please.
Thanks
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cordell12 said:
I have no problems accessing my router settings. I dud a little testing, swapping rom's and kernels. I found it to be a kernel issue. Running BFS #14 is .7 down. Switching to CFS kernel I pull the 2.5 down. So I tried BFS #13, same issue. I posted in the kernel thread and didn't get any response. The posts get buried pretty fast in that thread. My phone does better with the BFS kernels, besides the wifi issue. What if anything can be echo into kernel to fix this? Or can someone else flash BFS and confirm please.
Thanks
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I'm running bfs right now and I get 5.5mb dwn and 1.5mb up and I switched back to stable same thing. It can't be your kernel man that's almost I'm possible. How about you flash the same rom you are already on right on top of your current rom to reflash the default kernel image back on your phone and run the speed test app on your phone then run speed test.net in your browser to see your scores. If you are not on wifi your connection wont be all that great I can barely get 1mb dwn sometimes when on evdo but once I jump on wifi I get 5mb dwn and its same for me with bfs and cfs kernel I just tested it. I'm not sure I understand your problem correctly. I posted this thread because while on WIFI my wireless router was set to wireless b settings which was only allowing my phone to pull 1mb dwn on WIFI which was crazy to me cause I have 24mb dwn internet package. Our heroes only can really pull about 6 or 7mb dwn at the maximum. So changing settings in my router fixed that for me.

I am having a totally different issue than you were, both were slow down speeds, I was just hoping mine would be fixed the sane way yours was. My down speeds are not only slow at my home, but everywhere. McDonald, Starbucks, unsecured routers. BFS with any rom only gives me 0.7 Mb download while in wifi. If I run CFS my download improve to 2.5 Mb, that is my wifi. I haven't tested outside of my network with the CFS kernel. I feel speeds would increase where they can with CFS though. I have no clue what can be causing this, it's the sane on all roms, aosp, extremely blue, cm6.1, cm6.0
Thanks
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cordell12 said:
I am having a totally different issue than you were, both were slow down speeds, I was just hoping mine would be fixed the sane way yours was. My down speeds are not only slow at my home, but everywhere. McDonald, Starbucks, unsecured routers. BFS with any rom only gives me 0.7 Mb download while in wifi. If I run CFS my download improve to 2.5 Mb, that is my wifi. I haven't tested outside of my network with the CFS kernel. I feel speeds would increase where they can with CFS though. I have no clue what can be causing this, it's the sane on all roms, aosp, extremely blue, cm6.1, cm6.0
Thanks
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Ohhh ok man that's weird. Have you tried flashing to a stock sense rom and then testing it out? I don't know what else to say dude it all still has to be in the routers settings I guess that's the only thing I could suggest sorry man I got nothing lol

[Q] Epic 4g and PDAnet.

I have successfully tethered my epic to my computer and can download at about 40kbps from the device. (Even 3g in my area is poor)
Now that is not really that important to most people but considering my max download speed with my DSL is 130kbps it makes a huge difference.
Now hypothetically with both DSL and PDAnet connected I should be achieving somewhere around 160kbps.
I am using Vista and both connections are active and show up in the Network Manager but It doesn't seem I can "combine" the bandwidth of the two. I have tried "Merging" the connections and also "Bridging" them.
For example I'm downloading a steam game right now. Its at a steady 128kbps I can look at the status of each of the connections and it doesn't seem I'm pulling anything from the phone. But when I disconnect the DSL I can pull 40 from the phone.
I know its slim pickins on both ends but any extra bandwidth I can get will help. Why can't I combine the bandwidth of the two successfully?
By the way, this is my first post here. I got my epic about a month ago and have been lurking ever since. I look forward to hanging around here more and thanks for any suggestions in advance.

You are going to need to share that connection via wifi to a wireless adapter hooked into a dual wan wireless router with your dsl hooked into the other wan input.
While hooked up you will most likely have to disable dhcp and somehow manually configure the ip's on both connection to the router with load balancing enabled.
In my opinion this is hardly worth any of the trouble and alot harder than what I think you would be willing to want to deal with in the long run.
I would consider possible upgrading your dsl a little faster and just consider your cell connection a convenience for when you need it elsewhere other than home.

Yeah doesn't sound worth it...
1.5mb DSL is the highest available connection here which is what I have.
I've been complaining for 3 years about it heh..
Thanks man..

Calling all Utorrent users!

Hey guys, I'm relatively new to torrenting and I figured since this community is so great that I would run it by you guys first.
Speedtest says that my download speed is approximately 8mb/s. Why are my Utorrent download speeds so slow then? I'm only getting about 2mb/s download speeds.
There are plenty of seeders as well so I don't think that is the problem.

Could be throttling from your ISP, or it could be that you just aren't getting the same speeds over the ports uT is using. Or maybe all your seeds are slow. Could be any number of things.

8 mbit is your speedtest speed, utorrent is telling you your download speed as mbyte. they are 2 different ways of saying the same speed but they are not equal
example: speedtest tells me 9.56mbps I can download at 1226kBps or 1.2mBps

SilverZero said:
Could be throttling from your ISP, or it could be that you just aren't getting the same speeds over the ports uT is using. Or maybe all your seeds are slow. Could be any number of things.
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I'm downloading Dexter Season 5 which is in the top 100 torrents in Pirate Bay so i don't think that it is a problem with the seeds. Any way to check the other things though such as throttling from my ISP? I read that my ISP does in fact throttle so is there any way to get around this?

jhoffy22 said:
I'm downloading Dexter Season 5 which is in the top 100 torrents in Pirate Bay so i don't think that it is a problem with the seeds. Any way to check the other things though such as throttling from my ISP? I read that my ISP does in fact throttle so is there any way to get around this?
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use an encrypted vpn, or a speedbox. I have comcast and they are notorious for throttling, but I use btguard so I don't get throttled, and nobody can track me

NewZJ said:
use an encrypted vpn, or a speedbox. I have comcast and they are notorious for throttling, but I use btguard so I don't get throttled, and nobody can track me
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I'm going to look into setting all of this up. Would you mind helping me out? Thanks for your help.

yeah, pm me

Are you doing this through your phone (only reason I ask is because, well, it's here)? If so, your ping times are probably nowhere near fast enough to get you to consistently hit that 8 mbps speed.

If you've got multiple computers, here's a nifty trick I found this past weekend to get around some ISP's (namely, Comcast) throttling:
1) On both computers, install uTorrent 3.0 Alpha.
2) Under Preferences>BitTorrent set outbound encryption to forced, and un-check "Allow incoming legacy connections", under Basic BitTorrent Features, make sure everything except "Limit local peer bandwidth" is checked.
3) Confirm your router supports UPnP, and check Preferences>Connection "Enable UPnP port mapping", "Enable NAT-PMP port mapping", "Randomize port each start", and "Add Windows Firewall exception"
3a) If you have a firewall on your computer like ESET Smart Security, make sure to create an exception for all inbound and outbound TCP and UDP connections to/from utorrent.exe.
4) Load the same torrent file in both computers' uTorrent list. Under Peers, right-click and select "add peer", and enter the LAN IP address and port (you can get the port from Preferences>Connection>Listening Port) of the other computer.
Now, each computer will download the torrent and (hopefully) go after different pieces of the torrent simultaneously, then share over the LAN what each one has gotten. Enabling Local Peer Discovery will also find a bunch of peers from your ISP, since cable networks act like giant WAN-addressable LANs. (If you want an example, hook up your computer directly to your cable modem's ethernet port, and open up Wireshark. You'll see a ton of broadcasts from people's LANs, like mDNS and ARP requests. You could even do some ARP poisoning and sniff everyone's traffic in your neighborhood...)

Thanks for everyones comments and suggestions! Weirdly enough, I got it working great now and just by uninstalling and reinstalling as to restore the default settings in Utorrent 2.2.
One thing that peaks my curiousity however, earlier when I was trying to leach off my friends 8mb/s download speed internet I was only achieving the 2mb/s or so. When I got home to my house, I was getting about 2.5mb/s and the internet package that we have is supposed to only allow for 1mb/s!
I stopped all downloads and went onto speedtest.net and I did indeed register at ~2.7mb/s download and 1.1mb/s upload. I don't understand how this is possible considering last week I consistently was only getting 1mb/s and even called my cable company and they confirmed that was what I was paying for. Doesn't make any sense but I'm definitely not complaining

I get about 15 mbps down and about 1mbps up on speedtest.net. When I download a movie I see about 2mbps down and about 90kbps max. Whats everyones upload? Thats what really matters.

jhoffy22 said:
Hey guys, I'm relatively new to torrenting and I figured since this community is so great that I would run it by you guys first.
Speedtest says that my download speed is approximately 8mb/s. Why are my Utorrent download speeds so slow then? I'm only getting about 2mb/s download speeds.
There are plenty of seeders as well so I don't think that is the problem.
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I found a torrent app for Android that actually works. I have tried several but tTorrent is the only one I have found that really works. They have a free lite version that has a download speed cap but I paid for the full which was 2 something.
https://slideme.org/en/applications?text=ttorrent

Do what you want cause a pirate is free! You are a pirate! lets make a sing along!
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Maybe there should be a disclaimer in the op lol

Limit your global upload speed to 25kb/s, walk away for 10 mins. Bam, max speed.
If that doesn't work, the torrent you want probably doesn't have enough seeds close by to you with good upload.
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Hey since you guys are talking about torrents, here is a off topic question if you dont mind. Do you all use torrents for music or something else? PM if you like thanks!

I use torrents for everything...music, movies, software, everything. But, I have on offshore FTP so the US goverment can kiss my Arse!!

skantman69 said:
I use torrents for everything...music, movies, software, everything. But, I have on offshore FTP so the US goverment can kiss my Arse!!
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same, I don't have tv subscription at home, I have tv connected to laptop via hdmi and 5tb network hub with my media, I haven't seen a commercial in years

NewZJ said:
same, I don't have tv subscription at home, I have tv connected to laptop via hdmi and 5tb network hub with my media, I haven't seen a commercial in years
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+1 i'm doing the same thing. Time Warner can suck it

My setup up is a acer revo running XBMC live version.. with 2 1TB drives.. with digital out straight to my yamaha receiver.. of course the rest of the house is reg ol sat.. ( dish ).. for the kids and wife..
I use the set it and forget it method of using torrents. have like 3 or 4 BR movies at night going while im sleeping. in the morning they are done..
XBMC rocks..way better than anything retail.. cough crappy Western digital HD media player.lol

When doing your speed tests - use speak easy

Far better than the apps on the market. It gives real speed of your web connection. I was getting 1.2 -1.5 down on the speed test app when http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ was giving me 4.1ish.

The speedtest.net app has been extremely unreliable for me. When I use it I get a download speed of 800k. If i use a browser based test even from speedtest.net I get 3mbps. The app also lowers my wifi speeds from 5.2mbps to about 3-4. Ping times are also affected.

use www.testmy.net for accurate tests. Make sure you select the mobile tests

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use www.testmy.net for accurate tests. Make sure you select the mobile tests
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Just ran this on my 3GS and I get 3.3mbps on wifi which is impossible considering speedtest.net shows a 30mbps down connection
EDIT : Speak Easy also reports around 30mbps, tried running TestMy on my wired computer and it runs around 14mbps, It seems crippled.

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Just ran this on my 3GS and I get 3.3mbps on wifi which is impossible considering speedtest.net shows a 30mbps down connection
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You ran the Speedtest.net on your computer. It will be much slower on the 3GS.
Also, when using the test suite, make sure you select the mobile version, www.testmy.net/mobile
Also select the AUTO option. For comparison, my Verizon Fios connection get 28MB/s download and 27MB/s upload over my laptop using wireless-N 5GHz. Testmy.net gives me the same readings (this is with a XBOX 360 in the background playing COD: Black Ops (hardwired), and my wife upstairs on her laptop playing Cafe' World on the same network band). With nothing else running, my connection is usually spot on 35/35. On my Evo, I get 7.7Mbps download speed. Wireless N but at the 2.4GHz radio. I think when I had my 3GS it was about the same on the Wireless G.
Using the Speedtest app on my phone, I get about 13 downl and 7 up...

1BadHEMI said:
You ran the Speedtest.net on your computer. It will be much slower on the 3GS.
Also, when using the test suite, make sure you select the mobile version, www.testmy.net/mobile
Also select the AUTO option. For comparison, my Verizon Fios connection get 28MB/s download and 27MB/s upload over my laptop using wireless-N 5GHz. Testmy.net gives me the same readings (this is with a XBOX 360 in the background playing COD: Black Ops (hardwired), and my wife upstairs on her laptop playing Cafe' World on the same network band). With nothing else running, my connection is usually spot on 35/35. On my Evo, I get 7.7Mbps download speed. Wireless N but at the 2.4GHz radio. I think when I had my 3GS it was about the same on the Wireless G.
Using the Speedtest app on my phone, I get about 13 downl and 7 up...
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Yeah on Speedtest.net app on my iphone on Verizon FiOS I get around 18mbps down with the stock wireless G router. I tried TestMy and it shows a 3.3mbps connection on my iPhone. Both Speedtest and SpeakEasy show a 30mbps down on the wired desktop while TestMy shows only 14down its weird.

[Q] Slow download fast upload - Any fix?

My new Nexus 10 has a very slow download speed, upload is OK.
I also has a Vizio Vtab 1008 Android table that has OK download speed on the same network.
I find that I cannot watch youtube videoes in HD, and even non-HD they can time out.
I tried disabling Wi-Fi optimization in the Wi-Fi settings. I am connected to a Netis WF-2409 wireless-N router (used as an access point). I am about 5 feet from it with both the Nexus 10 and the Vizio Vtab so have a great signal.
Here are some speed test comparisons (using the Android "Speed Test" applicatinon for both devices, and tested within a few minutes of each other -- first testing Nexus, then Vizio, then Nexus again. Transfer speeds in Mbps, ping times in ms.
With the Vizio Vtab I saw 2.83 and 2.61 Mbps download. Nexus shows 0.31, 0.19, 0.23, and 0.23. Help would be appreciated.
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2.83 3.53 42 (Vizio)
2.61 3.47 31 (Vizio)
0.31 3.68 48 (Android)
0.19 3.06 51 (Android)
0.23 3.90 16 (Android)
0.23 3.89 14 (Android)

something specific to my home access point
A follow up. I stopped by the Local library with both the Nexus 10 and the Vizio Vtab.
Found that on their network the Nexus 10 was fine. Then on the way home stopped at
a Lowes (big box harware) store. Again performance fine. Just tied with the second of
my two home Netis access points and less than 1 Mbps upload. I would say that there is
a problem with the Netis access point however the Vizio table, laptops, Roku video, are
all working find with it. What sort of incompatibility could there be with this access point
that specifically does not work well with the Nexus 10?

My WiFi works really well. I pay for 18mbps and can regularly get 16 on my tablet. Have you tried using Wi-Fi analyzer in the market to see if there is a better channel to use? Beyond trying that, I have no clue
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sdmark said:
My WiFi works really well. I pay for 18mbps and can regularly get 16 on my tablet. Have you tried using Wi-Fi analyzer in the market to see if there is a better channel to use? Beyond trying that, I have no clue
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Yes, I have used Wi-Fi analyzer. I have a clear spot for the channel. I have two of the same model Wi-Fi units, one at each end of the house set on different channels. Same slow download using either one of these with the Nexus 10. And yet fast download on either one using a Vizio Vtab 1008 Android tablet. The odd bit here is that Nexus 10 is slow, and yet older Android table is fast.

Seems like you've tried the obvious. I don't know what your thoughts are on custom ROMs but it might be worth trying just as a basis of comparison.
Also, with root access you can use an app called "Pimp My ROM" to easily apply some internet build.prop tweaks
Even flashing a good kernel may help.
Ultimately, it could also be a hardware problem with the device. Android 4.2.1 does have some WiFi bugs but download speeds that slow seems like either your device or router/network configuration.

Thanks for the response. My plan is to get a tcpdump of the Nexus 10 and the Vizio tablet running the speed test app and see what I can learn by comparing those. Because the Nexus seemed quite happy on the two public netwoks today I am suspecting something about the configuration of the Netis WF-2409 Wi-Fi unit is not working well with the Nexus. But seeing he older Vizio Andriod tablet work (as well as laptops, phone, Roku, etc.) that is puzzling. I was hoping maybe I could alter a network setting on either Nexus 10 or the router but what is available, at least on non-rooted Nexus 10 is pretty limited. I'm resisting rooting the device, at least for a while. I really don't need to take on another projet right now.

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Followup: I chanbged the channel width from 20/40 to just 20. That bumped the download speed up to around 1.0 Mbps in a couple tests. Upload speed remains the same at around 3.5 Mbps. Also tried powering off the second Netis Wi-Fi unit with no change there. Also tried shifting channels a bit and no change. Tried an older Linksys Wireless G router/WiFi and saw 11.89 Mbps download with that Of course that was connected mode "g" and I am connected mode "n" with the Netis unit. More testing in order.

Solved - new firmware
I exchanged e-mail with the support folks at Netis. Very responsive. They sent me new firmware to try and that solved the problem. My Nexus 10 is now seeing download speeds well above 10 Mbps. The older Vizio Android device also sees much faster download speeds.
They placed the version I have out on their download page. Appears that there was an earlier version of what I now have out there, unknown if that would have taken care of it.
So it appears that the problem was something to do with firmware code in my Wi-Fi unit. It is working great now.