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WiFi Issues! Please help! Need info?

Okay, so this might be like beating a dead horse, but yet I haven't gotten any responses for this issue. I use WiFi alot, and at work I really need it since my phone keeps switching between ATT & T-Mobile towers. Damn cell phone companies, 2011 and coverage still sucks! Anyhow I have to use WiFi alot at work and my phone keeps doing something stupid! It will connect to the wireless just fine, but keeping it connected is the issue! Stupid thing keeps dropping connection and then reconnecting. I don't know if it is because of the carrier switch or if my router is a piece of junk. My laptop seems fine on the wireless so I think that is fine. I am running [ROM][07/04/11] Virtuous Unity Sense 3.0 based on Pyramid [1.27.0] and everything seems fine on it! So maybe a setting in the phone, or I just have crap WiFi at work? I am literally sitting beside the dang router while this issue persists. I can even go into the Settings portion of the phone and watch the WiFi constantly say "Connected to NETGEAR_2" then "Scanning" then "Obtaining IP Address" over and over, WTF? Please someone, anyone, have issues with this on their MyTouch 4g before? My setup at work has two WNR2000v3 NetGear routers that are wireless bridge so the front computers can connect to the internet. I was connecting to the back router but the signal sucked so I switched and setup the front router to give me another signal. So my phone has full strenth on signal, but yet again it drops and picks up again and makes that notification sound when it does so. That sound maybe the phone roaming, I do have that feature on. But anyhow, any info would be great, just someone please give me an idea here!

Well, came to work this morning and tried to connect to the 2nd router with my laptop and lord behold, it messed up. So maybe its not my phone after all.

Acer Iconia A500 messing up my wifi?

Here's the deal and I don't know that this is the right forum but I don't notice it on any other device. I have a WiFi Router located in my Living Room. My kids bedrooms are located in the back of the house and I have not had a problem with WiFi on my laptop, Windows 6.5 or 7 phones, or Atrix 4g.
The problem:
When one of my kids takes my tablets into their room the internet in the entire house has trouble connecting. It only happens when the Tablet is far away in the back rooms. I was told this may be a priority setting but I don't know what that means or why this is happening. The signal is only 1 bar or 2 from that distance and the problem affects every device connected at that time meaning my wife and I would have our laptops next to the device and my other kid can have his Atrix connected and all of our devices no matter the distance stall out and won't connect. A lot of it is from streaming videos I THINK but if my signal is shared by each device the connection shouldn't be getting sapped by one of them.
any thoughts or ideas to fix this?

tomnationwide said:
A lot of it is from streaming videos I THINK but if my signal is shared by each device the connection shouldn't be getting sapped by one of them.
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Completely false assumption. Any one device can totally saturate your connection... I for one would fine out WHAT the kids are streaming when they are in their room, and go from there...

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I don't know if I should blame A500 or not, but after I got the A500 for a while, I experienced several times that my wifi router was in wrong state, I had to log into it and reset it.

Perhaps it's your router. I had a Netgear router that would freeze whenever I would connect to the internet with my phone browser but was just fine with my laptop/desktop, etc. I got a new router and everything has been working fine.

How to get a stronger wifi signal

Hey guys, I got my nexus 7 on Friday and spent the weekend playing with it. At home, the wifi strength on the tablet was fine but last night I brought it to my residence and noticed that I barely got any bars. It is a bunch of us sharing the network and the router is about 8 or 9 rooms down. Because of the distance to the router I get a maximum of 2-3 bars on my laptop (anywhere in the room) but I barely get any on my tablet (I only get maybe 1 bar near the window which keeps going on and off). I tried the following apps: Network signal booster, Network signal speed booster and Wifi booster easy connect. None of these seemed to work. I am new to android and I only tried these apps after researching. Is there any other app that would really help or anyone knows how I can fix this? Thanks

youngballer said:
Hey guys, I got my nexus 7 on Friday and spent the weekend playing with it. At home, the wifi strength on the tablet was fine but last night I brought it to my residence and noticed that I barely got any bars. It is a bunch of us sharing the network and the router is about 8 or 9 rooms down. Because of the distance to the router I get a maximum of 2-3 bars on my laptop (anywhere in the room) but I barely get any on my tablet (I only get maybe 1 bar near the window which keeps going on and off). I tried the following apps: Network signal booster, Network signal speed booster and Wifi booster easy connect. None of these seemed to work. I am new to android and I only tried these apps after researching. Is there any other app that would really help or anyone knows how I can fix this? Thanks
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Try turning off wifi and turning it on again. I always get full bars on my laptop and full bars on my nexus and just out of random sometimes it cuts out and goes blank. I just turn it off then back on then boom back to normal

CooLoserTech said:
Try turning off wifi and turning it on again. I always get full bars on my laptop and full bars on my nexus and just out of random sometimes it cuts out and goes blank. I just turn it off then back on then boom back to normal
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I noticed that the wifi signal would go blank after it has been on charge for couple of hours.

Do you have any other wifi devices that work? It may just be that your laptop can pick up the signal because it has more antennas/a more powerful wireless card than the nexus, in which case you're out of luck without a repeater.

Can I do anything on my laptop? or make it a hotspot somehow?

youngballer said:
Can I do anything on my laptop? or make it a hotspot somehow?
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Try connectify (http://www.connectify.me). It'll make your laptop act like a wifi repeater, so as long as your laptop gets signal you'll be fine.

mewantnexus7 said:
Try connectify (http://www.connectify.me). It'll make your laptop act like a wifi repeater, so as long as your laptop gets signal you'll be fine.
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Thanks I will give it a try

youngballer said:
I noticed that the wifi signal would go blank after it has been on charge for couple of hours.
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As for your Wi-Fi going to sleep while inactive/on charge, try this
Settings > WI-FI > (now click the 3 dots once you are in the WI-FI section) Click Advanced > Change "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to Only When Plugged in (if that's what you want).
One problem solved, hopefully.

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If you have an old android phone you may use fqrouter2 for rooted Android devices and you have a perfectly working WiFi Repeater (available free in Google Play Store)

[Q] Same but different WiFi issue plus...

Hey guys. This is my first post here. Checked all the troubleshooting threads and did not see this. Have seen the issue similar on other forums and sections, but my situation is a little different.
I have a rooted 16GB S4. I have been using the same wifi connection since August 2nd. The wifi on my phone, computer, TV, and Xbox have all been working this whole time. This afternoon I tried to check something on my computer and had no internet connection, but was using my phone. Thought the issue was my computer. Left. Came home. Computer is connected fine. My phone, my wife's iPhone 4s, TV, and Xbox will not connect to the network at all. So this situation is a bit different as I have been connected for 3 weeks and now wont work. I assume its not my phone because so many other devices dont work either. Not to mention it's both IOS and Android. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks a lot.
My plus is just something small. Yesterday my lock screen blanked out. I have my other lock screen pages, but my page with the date and time and all just randomly went blank and will not come back after reset.

If I read everything correctly then you don't have an issue with any of your devices. Chances are it's your wireless router. I would recommend replacing it to see if that fixes the issue. You can always buy one from Best Buy and take it back if that doesn't fix your issue.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that it may be the way your router is configured. (I doubt it's your ISP if something is working but other stuff isn't.) What kind of router do you have?

agent929 said:
If I read everything correctly then you don't have an issue with any of your devices. Chances are it's your wireless router. I would recommend replacing it to see if that fixes the issue. You can always buy one from Best Buy and take it back if that doesn't fix your issue.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that it may be the way your router is configured. (I doubt it's your ISP if something is working but other stuff isn't.) What kind of router do you have?
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I think its a netgear. We are living in a downstairs apartment. All my devices now work. It was weird. First nothing was on. Then just the cimputer. We went to sleep and woke up and phones were working but not tv or xbox or computer. Now everything is fine again.... I did send an email to my landlord and ask her to unplug the router for about 30 seconds. She may have done that....

I definitely think it's the router. Netgear isn't the best around, and I have found that they do have problems from time to time. If you had access to the router yourself that would be the best way to troubleshoot the issues.

jbyersak1015 said:
I think its a netgear. We are living in a downstairs apartment. All my devices now work. It was weird. First nothing was on. Then just the cimputer. We went to sleep and woke up and phones were working but not tv or xbox or computer. Now everything is fine again.... I did send an email to my landlord and ask her to unplug the router for about 30 seconds. She may have done that....
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If things were working fine for some time then just started acting wonky, it wasn't anything your devices (S4, iPhone, computer or xbox) could've done, per se. Something had to have changed with the router - not that it's going bad or that it sucks, but something was altered. The smallest changes in networking can make the biggest difference. Don't just buy new devices and throw out the old when an issue arrives.
That's great its working now. For future reference, you should get your own in-apartment WiFi, like "Clear", cheap and works well in most areas, this would narrow down your possibilities of your internet not working properly on your S4 and other devices.

"Internet connection too slow" notification

Hey kids.
I came from the S3 the beginning of November. One of the "new" annoyances I've come across is a notification that the wifi connection Internet speed is too slow. Which is bull. The only way to reconnect after that is to reboot. Sometimes enabling airplane mode does it as well. So my question is twofold. Has anyone else come across this? Has anyone figured out how to turn this stupid setting off?
Thanks in advance.
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I haven't encountered any of these problems. My Wi-Fi signal it's weak at times, but when I have a good connection internet speed is fast
If I helped hit thanks!!

im not saying this will fix your problem, but i was getting these messages as well. I switched my wifi power saving off via service menu. I also changed my router band from 2.4ghz to 5ghz 40 bandwidth and i havnt seen the message in about 2 weeks.

Kancerstick said:
im not saying this will fix your problem, but i was getting these messages as well. I switched my wifi power saving off via service menu. I also changed my router band from 2.4ghz to 5ghz 40 bandwidth and i havnt seen the message in about 2 weeks.
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Thanks. Actually did the power save to off this morning. Happened again this afternoon. As far as switch to 5ghz, I've found that my wifi signal's reach gets cut by about 20-30 feet on that band. Which means I lose reception in part of my basement. I can move my router more centrally in the house, but overall speed suffers (goes from a solid 8-10mbps connection to about 1.5 mbps) cuz the wiring to that receptical is sketchy.
I can get that stupid message in the same room as the router.
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LeftyGR said:
Thanks. Actually did the power save to off this morning. Happened again this afternoon. As far as switch to 5ghz, I've found that my wifi signal's reach gets cut by about 20-30 feet on that band. Which means I lose reception in part of my basement. I can move my router more centrally in the house, but overall speed suffers (goes from a solid 8-10mbps connection to about 1.5 mbps) cuz the wiring to that receptical is sketchy.
I can get that stupid message in the same room as the router.
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yeah 5ghz band will cut your signal strength in half probably. Maybe buy a dual band wireless access point? Its wierd that your speed goes down on 5ghz. Mine practically doubled on my note 3. My house connection is 100mbps / 5mps. On 2.4ghz i can only get up to 30 mbps, when i enabled 5ghz wifi, i shot up to ~110mbps down.

Kancerstick said:
yeah 5ghz band will cut your signal strength in half probably. Maybe buy a dual band wireless access point? Its wierd that your speed goes down on 5ghz. Mine practically doubled on my note 3. My house connection is 100mbps / 5mps. On 2.4ghz i can only get up to 30 mbps, when i enabled 5ghz wifi, i shot up to ~110mbps down.
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that's ridiculous... buy another router or access point? Its the phone, not the internet, when you get the notification when you're right next to the router. The Note 3 is the only device on my house giving me Wi-Fi issues. Sorry I don't mean to sound like an arse, but it seems silly to buy a phone and have to replace your router, when everything else works just fine with the WiFi signal.

Just to clear up, speed goes down when I connect to the other phone plug. So my router (brand new, furnished by internet provider) is on one side of my house. And this happened before moving in mid Nov as well. Before was cable Internet, now dsl. It's the best thing I can get @ current location.
I'm not sure if it will actually solve anything, but I received the latest update ota. Tomorrow gonna download latest firmware and flash via odin avter wiping everything with safestrap.
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Kancerstick said:
im not saying this will fix your problem, but i was getting these messages as well. I switched my wifi power saving off via service menu. I also changed my router band from 2.4ghz to 5ghz 40 bandwidth and i havnt seen the message in about 2 weeks.
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I'm having the same issues. How do I do the steps above? Kind of's a noob and I don't know what the service menu is and where to switch my bandwidth. Can I get a step by step please?

Kancerstick said:
im not saying this will fix your problem, but i was getting these messages as well. I switched my wifi power saving off via service menu. I also changed my router band from 2.4ghz to 5ghz 40 bandwidth and i havnt seen the message in about 2 weeks.
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LeftyGR said:
Just to clear up, speed goes down when I connect to the other phone plug. So my router (brand new, furnished by internet provider) is on one side of my house. And this happened before moving in mid Nov as well. Before was cable Internet, now dsl. It's the best thing I can get @ current location.
I'm not sure if it will actually solve anything, but I received the latest update ota. Tomorrow gonna download latest firmware and flash via odin avter wiping everything with safestrap.
♢NoteIII♢
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Armyrj127 said:
I'm having the same issues. How do I do the steps above? Kind of's a noob and I don't know what the service menu is and where to switch my bandwidth. Can I get a step by step please?
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Kancerstick pretty much had it right. Rather than switching the band from direct 2.4 to 5.0 though, go into your router settings and look for a setting that says "channel".
What channel are you running on? There are 1-11 channels, try different ones or the idea is to find the one that matches the channel of the phone/client device

lmike6453 said:
Kancerstick pretty much had it right. Rather than switching the band from direct 2.4 to 5.0 though, go into your router settings and look for a setting that says "channel".
What channel are you running on? There are 1-11 channels, try different ones or the idea is to find the one that matches the channel of the phone/client device
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Ok, I see what you're saying. I'll check that out when I get home. Thanks!
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This post subject caught my eye... I wish there was an xposed module to disable this function. Anytime my wifi connects to my canon eos this notification always comes up and sometimes ruins the connection
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LeftyGR said:
Hey kids.
I came from the S3 the beginning of November. One of the "new" annoyances I've come across is a notification that the wifi connection Internet speed is too slow. Which is bull. The only way to reconnect after that is to reboot. Sometimes enabling airplane mode does it as well. So my question is twofold. Has anyone else come across this? Has anyone figured out how to turn this stupid setting off?
Thanks in advance.
♢NoteIII♢
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The one solution that did work for me was to go into the WIFI Settings -> Advanced option under the menu key -> Uncheck the "Auto network switch" option. I haven't had any further issues with that message so far.

tried everything...
I think I have tried everything on this issue. I got my note 3 a few days ago and it will not keep a stable network connection. tried:
1. uncheck the auto switch
2. turn off mobile networks
3. turn off wifi when sleeping
4 changed my router to static ip and not DCHP
5. forget and reconnect to network
6. reset router
I don't thing I can change my router settings anymore or I will have issues with other equipment
I am sitting right next to my router and everything else works fine but my note 3 will not keep a connection. I keep running speed test and half the time it works and half the time I get a no connection error.
Any other thoughts? Should I try another unit?