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.
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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"
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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.
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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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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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I think the wifi on my G2 is acting up. I don't know if these are normal speeds for phone wifi, but here goes:
Right now I'm getting 24 Mbps when I'm about 30 feet away from my router and behind one wall. I'm on a linksys wireless N router. I can get you the model number if you need it.
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I'm not quite understanding your question? Is your G2's wifi downlink 24mbps because that isn't slow at all.
24mbps is what's listed when I go into settings and tap on my network.
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I get similar speeds as well, its really fast.
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I'm not quite understanding your question? Is your G2's wifi downlink 24mbps because that isn't slow at all.
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24Mbps to an N router 30ft away? Yeah that's really slow...
I had problems downloading files from my server on my LAN via wifi... it was ridiculously slow.
Currently is pdanet the only way to tether 4G? If its possible wirelessly which method works best? Thanks!
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Im going to St Louis Tomorrow im anxious to test out 4g!!! Ill let you know what works on the wireless side tomorrow
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Currently is pdanet the only way to tether 4G? If its possible wirelessly which method works best? Thanks!
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Wifi tether has always worked just fine for me tethering 4G. I get 3-4mbps most of the time with peaks around 6mbps.
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Currently is pdanet the only way to tether 4G? If its possible wirelessly which method works best? Thanks!
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I use the Wireless Tether app in the market (root only) with 4g all the time, works great.
i did some tests and i'm not getting 4g, i'm on dk28 froyo, did speed test on phone browser and also when tethered (using wifi tether pre15) and on tether i'm getting 3g speeds, not sure what i'm doing wrong
EasyTether on the market works well. Cheaper as well IIRC.
I used wired tether
I use wired tether on a rooted phone and couldn't be happier. Great 4G speeds and charges the phone at the same time. Remember, 4G is a huge battery hog!
My phone is rooted but couldn't get wired tether to work. Is there a particular version I need to use? The wireless tether works great, but not all my computers have wifi.
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I use the Wireless Tether app in the market (root only) with 4g all the time, works great.
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+1, no probs when I visited san fran
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i did some tests and i'm not getting 4g, i'm on dk28 froyo, did speed test on phone browser and also when tethered (using wifi tether pre15) and on tether i'm getting 3g speeds, not sure what i'm doing wrong
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If the phone indicates you're connected to 4G and tether works at all, you're tethered via 4G. What "3G speeds" are you getting?
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Is there a particular version I need to use?
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You need a kernel with RNDIS support (Xtreme, MixUp), and the wired-tether (wired-tether-1.4-epic-1.apk) client from this thread or a ROM containing that client.
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If the phone indicates you're connected to 4G and tether works at all, you're tethered via 4G. What "3G speeds" are you getting?
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at home i get 1 bar on 4G, i tested in the phone browser at speedtest.net and get almost 3 mbps but when i tether with wifi tether pre15 it still shows that im connected 1 bar on 4g but testing again on speedtest.net on my laptop shows around 1 mbps, perhaps i'll run it a few more times but i've already done it a couple times with same results...
edit: ok did the test again and i got around 3 mbps now, weird i'm happy it worked now, i think i just get inconsistent results since i have such a low 4g signal here, thanks everyone.
In my house, I have very little 3G signal AND 4G signal. My 4G speeds are as fast as maximum 3G speeds.
Perhaps that's what you're experiencing? I've done a speed test on 4G in my house and came back with 1.2 MB/s DL with .8 MB/s UL.
I'm went to la and st. Louis and tethered 4g with mobile ap, worked great,
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I've had my x for about a week and a half now and am using the darkslide rom. I like it a lot but I am having a few issues. I don't know if it's related to the rom or something else.
First the wifi tether is slow. I get about .5 M on a good day. I used to tether on an htc hero and easily got triple with sprint. Also after tethering for ten minutes our so the data will just stop and I have to stop tether and restart to regain connection. I get 1.5M when I use the speed test app on my phone..
What is the deal with verizon visual voicemail? Do you have to pay for that? Just switched from sprint so I'm ignorant on that one.
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And the signal strength indicator fluctuates from 1 bar to 4.
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What app ate you using to tether with? I usually get 2.2 to 2.4 down. I do have issues with wireless tether losing connection when my screen goes into sleep mode sometimes but when I wake the screen my connection comes back up. Only happens occasionally. It seems to happen less with barnacle wifi tether.
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I use WiFI tethering daily and I haven't seen a issue. I used to use the Wireless Tether App from Market and with that I did experience a couple dropouts and some slow speeds.... After I switched to the stock 3G Mobile WiFi App with Team Black Hats' patch I have had ZERO issues.
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I'm using the wifi tether app from the market. I guess I'll do some searching to find out how to do the patch thing.
Thanks!
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On average I get about 1.5mbps on my tether. Not to shabby I guess.
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?
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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.
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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.
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You know Pete has the wireless tether fix that unlocks the sprint tethering.
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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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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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So lets get straight to it. Im rooted using IO , freegeed w/twrp, running stock rooted 10g rom. I have tried several roms and none of them on a speed test show me able to get over 3.8 mbps yet I get 8 mbps upload. I checked my pc, 30+ mbps download on there. Checked my gf's (completely untouched by me lol) g2 and she has the same problem its like it capped at 3.8 mbps on the wifi. 4g im getting 30 mbps. I am using comcasts phone/modem/router pos and when i checked i saw its 2.4ghz so i selected 2.4ghz on the phone along with turned wifi battery saver off. I have pretty much tried all I can think of. So now i need your help! I switched over from my lg og to the g2 and the og worked fine on this router.
Maybe try changing the channel on your router to 11?
thanks for the reply, but did not work.
Is it an old router?Try your phone with another router.
I'm guessing since its Comcast crap and only 2.4 ghz no 5 option that it is old. Lol. Just not sure why my og worked fine with this router, my brothers og pro is fine. But not our g2's
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I don't need to go anywhere today and its cold out I don't want to just go to see atm. I'm wondering if I use my gfs g2 as a hotspot if I could see if wifi works that way. To bad she's at work lol
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Cool, gf came home, turned on mobile hot spot, 30 mbps. So it is this pos Comcast router. I wonder if I call them if they will give me a newer router. But is there a special feature needed by a router for these phones? I'm confused lol. Why only g2's on this router?
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@ripbabey Turn to WPA TKIP only. The G2 hates the Technicolor AES+TKIP combo. Fixed mine. Weird thing is, works fine in AES on my SB6141 and the Arris. No further idea about it. Something just isn't getting along between the two. I'm not technical enough to dig deeper.
I'll check that out thanks
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You're welcome. It will work. I about returned the Technicolor because of this.
That actually improved some speed Mr not technical enough lol. I'm getting 12-15 mbps now which is matching my computer. So now when my speed picks back up from Comcast I'll see if I get any higher. Thank you so much!
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I was getting over 20, which matches, winter weather is hindering my connection. How I miss underground wiring.
Lol. So far so good, was about to just go get a router. Now it looks like I don't need to.
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