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WLAN very poor quality when using WPA2-PSK

I got the WPA2 working. But it drop connection and acts badly.
Strange thing is when I stand and holdl the phone from the antenna I get 80% signal quality as best, If I move away a few steps I get 20% quality
I only tested with WPA2-PSK
How is the quality of your WLAN connections ?

anyone got any wlan input on this topic ?

i get one bar at my school WLAN network (using securew2 to get past all the security), but the speed is great b/c it's a very fast network. so even if your signal is low, you should still get good speed depending on network.

One thing I've observed in phone right after i bought 'em is the WLAN reception. as for the X1 it's just okay. of course signals also depends on how far the range of the hotspot's coverage is but I've tested my devices on a single WIFI router at home and here are the results on "balanced" setting:
1. X1 just about 13 meters from the router is almost dead reception.
2. XDA Zinc is about the same position signal dies.
3. XDA IIi (HTC Alpine) at 15 meters still has a weak signal -> this one impressed me much.
4. HTC Prophet just 3 meters away goes dead. -> this is far worst than I imagined.
5. Nokia N91 about 10 meters still has a weak signal
6. Nintendo DS about 10 meters still has a weak signal.
7. MSI Laptop S420 18 meters away still can watch youtube. ( well of course this is way different. )
And I have all these devices with me.

what that test done with open wlan or WPA2 as I talked out ?

HD2 low WiFi reception

Is it normal that my hd2 has lower wifi reception than my laptop? I mean, my router is in the living room and i have 4 to 5 Bars of wifi signal on my laptop in the bedroom, but i have only one bar on my HD2! There are two walls(one room) between living room and bedroom? I've try'd it at my friends house with his laptop and his router, it's the same thing.
Is it normal the phone to have lower reception or may i try to flash a new radio?
I'm using stock ROM 1.48 with radio 2.05.
Thanks in advance!

doesn't anybody have this problem?

My HD2 gets slightly less reception bars than my
laptop in the same location. Could be the way the meters are calibrated, but more likely the larger antenna in the laptop. With wireless N enabled my internet speed tests seem about the same with two bars as with three. Almost same with N disabled.

I have a linksys WRT54GL router and the HD2 gets low signal strength. Only about 7m away from the router and behind one wall. So I am not sure what is up. The router also has 7db antenna attached.
Laptops get much better signal strength. Not sure what the issue is.

A phone doesn't have the same amount of Power as a laptop nor the Antennas Range ... On my Laptop i get several WiFi Signals while on my HD2 I only get two... In the Same location

Could be that you need the wireless N enabled on your phone use the search option

Thanks for the tip about the wireless N enabled on the phone.
I understand that laptops have higher powered antennas. But even if I place the phone right next to the router it will not get 100% signal strength. It will go to maybe 50-60% tops. This is with the phone right next to the router.
Maybe a radio upgrade etc might be on order.
Will try the N enabled feature 1st, even though I use a G router.

try to remove the battery cover. See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785907

antenna in your laptop will be much bigger and better located than the one in your phone

with a WRT54GL Router The Wireless-N Option will have no effect.
Your router only supports Wireless-G

Is this a normal iconia wifi signal?

Yay so I'm really happy about the iconia so far. The whole no acees to SD card through computer while connected to the computer will take some getting used to, but its the wifi that'll probably get this sent back. It's really bad. I've reset the connection half a dozen times since last night because it keeps hangin and can only downloads app when in the same room with the router.
Now the issue is that I'm laying beside the router now and getting 2 bars. If I sit up I get 3 bars. Yippee. The signal in the bedroom, on the first floor, get maybe 1 bar and I can't stream or download anything in there. I never get a great wifi signal in there', but its between 2 and 3 bars on my phone and netbook,. I wondered if there might be some interference so brought up the handy wifi analyzer and found 4 other wifi signals all on the first channel, so now my router is on channel 11. It didn't help any :-\
So if I exchange it, will the new unit possibly be an improvement? Is this just the way it is?

I noticed that the connection quality drops sharply the further away you are, but atleast on my tablet it still doesn't drop as sharply as in your case. I have the router here in living room and I get 65Mbps, everything works fine. Then if I move to bedroom or kitchen it drops to something around 20Mbps, yet it still works just fine.

What type of router do you use.I have a newer netgear with no issues my router is in the basement at front of house almost under the front porch.concrete ceiling above it. I can go out to my back yard approximately 200 feet and still get 1 bar and OK speed.I do notice. That the indicator bars do not exactly deplict your signal strength.
I also know there is a issue with some routers and the network card in this device I read in a thread long back.you have to turn off n or g feature I think it was.but do firmware update on router as well might help.not all routers are created equally Linksys sucks in my book. Lately
I can also see neighbors wifi signal but 1 bar they are 500 feet. Prob could not connect thou
Wish you lots of luck

hmmmmm
You could have a faulty Wi-Fi antenna ...
More likely, you are using a cheap router or a router with out of date firmware. Have you checked to make sure you have kept your router up to date with the latest firmware?
Also, have you tested this with other routers? If a multitude of routers show the same issue - you likely have a hardware problem with the a500 - if only your router shows this problem, then likely it is a problem with your local router.

a different unit MAY help, but I would try friends routers n such. My router blows but I can still stream Netflix no problem all the way across the house. I can't even do that on my laptop which has a beastly card. +1 for updating your router and device though, that might help.

Thanks for the replies. I have an old Motorola sbg900. I think I bought it 2 years ago. I have noticed that the iconia doesn't see as many networks as my phone does and the speedtest results are interesting. I left everything default in the app. By the router, I get 9 mb/s with the iconia vs 7 mb/s with the phone. In the bedroom, I get. .8 mb/s on the iconia and almost 6 mb/s on the phone. That is a huge drop and gap :'( I'll look up updating the router. I've never had connection problems before and we have 2 desktops upstairs plus both me and my roommates phones and both laptops and the wii and xbox. I just hope I can get some signal improvements on this nifty device.

sounds like firmware or...
I would find a friend with a different type of wifi router and test your connection with it. That way you get a pretty good indication of if you have a issue with your router or an issue with your Iconia.

Bother, my work wifi allows me to connect, but doesn't allow me to do anything with the connection. I am connected, but cannot do a speedtest. Relying only on bars the phone gets all 4 while the iconia gets only 3. The iconia also only sees 3 of the wifi signals in the building while my phone picks up 7 plus an open adhoc network. I know, it's time to visit with some friends so I can do a second test or maybe this is an excuse to go out for lunch today
ETA: At McDonalds, both devices had 3 bars and identical download and upload speeds. I've gone ahead and ordered a cheap $20 wireless n router to see if that improves things. It should arrive tomorrow, but since it's coming via UPS, it may not arrive until Monday.

Wifi observations...

so i've been getting wifi drops for a while now...never really tested until last night. Seems, around 15 yards from my router, though a wall or two granted....I only get 1-2 bars of signal. In this 1-2 range, (my couch), it will drop the wifi signal approximately every 15-20 seconds....stay unconnected for 1 second and then reconnect. If I get closer to the router though, no drops. I don't understand why the tab can't hold a low signal for wireless consistently.

sincerity said:
so i've been getting wifi drops for a while now...never really tested until last night. Seems, around 15 yards from my router, though a wall or two granted....I only get 1-2 bars of signal. In this 1-2 range, (my couch), it will drop the wifi signal approximately every 15-20 seconds....stay unconnected for 1 second and then reconnect. If I get closer to the router though, no drops. I don't understand why the tab can't hold a low signal for wireless consistently.
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I was having this same issue. What fixed everything up for me was setting my router to use Long Preamble. A500 & HP Netbook stay connected now.
Give that a shot. Good luck!

I believe there aare issues with some routers.or maybe settions some have on there routers.I have a 40.00 netgear b/g/n .router its located in my basement back at the end of the hall kinda under the kitchen.I can go out back about 20 yards from the house and still have 1-2 bars
Also my Iconia will see several neighbors routers and the house are all in the center of double size lots.the one signal I pick up with two bars I know is in the house across the street.
My router security is simple I have dhcp on.but secure by Mac address.this could be a solution.set this then add each device in the Mac assess pannel in the router.bye the way this is the most secure.I.also.have broadcasting turned off.to get another computer to even see my router I have to log into the router from another computer.then give the new machine access.I use this due to open file sharing.
Good luck.

sincerity said:
so i've been getting wifi drops for a while now...never really tested until last night. Seems, around 15 yards from my router, though a wall or two granted....I only get 1-2 bars of signal. In this 1-2 range, (my couch), it will drop the wifi signal approximately every 15-20 seconds....stay unconnected for 1 second and then reconnect. If I get closer to the router though, no drops. I don't understand why the tab can't hold a low signal for wireless consistently.
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More to the point, you could be behind 1 wall and get a bad signal which might not have anything to do with the tablet. If you've got insulated walls that use a foil wrap, good night.
Plus 45feet, while not particularly far away, when you couple walls and electromagnetic interference + distant, those all add to the level of signal degradation. If you've *properly* taken into account all the variables, then [and only then] can you quantify the wifi capabilities of the tablet.
I'm not saying you didn't, I'm just throwing this into the discussion with my primary point being that short distance and few walls [generalizing] isn't equal to a devices capability to process a signal. (;

nice replies...thanks....I'll try the long preamble...not sure what that is will have to research. And yea gamma, that is definitely true about the different kinds of walls etc. I can use my thunderbolt's wifi perfectly from anywhere in the house and actually out of the house at my daughters swingset which is a good 75 yards away. Apples and oranges I know....but i've never had wifi signal problems in this house otherwise except for the iconia. I am fairly sure it's a conflict with the router and the tab of some sort

It all depends on the device radio and router combination. I have an ASUS WAP that doesn't play well with Atheros brand radios. Switched my laptop to an Intel WiFi radio and away went my connection issues. Both my Motorola Atrix and my Acer Iconia have the same range/connection speed, no problems with dropped connection that I've found. Take it to my parents house with a Linksys WAP and problems galore.

[Q] Wireless signal strength issues anybody ?

Is anybody experiencing wireless signal strength issues with Nexus 10 ?
In the same room with the router the signal strength drops from excellent to none and back at will. Router is fine, I have other devices (apple and windows based) which have no such issue.

Yes I noticed the same issue.

No issues with my one, I have my router in the same room too and I'm getting full strength. Occasionally it drops by one bar momentarily.

Is it just the on screen meter showing the fluctuation or are you actually losing connectivity?

Alleycat68 said:
Is it just the on screen meter showing the fluctuation or are you actually losing connectivity?
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I notice that download speed drops significantly when that happens

Yeah for me too. When this issue appears I'm doing a speed test and the speed is slow as hell.
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Hm, this is a concern. Is that new MIMO wifi thing too new to be released in a product? Hope not.

No issues for me, stable connection all around the house, even in the kitchen where my phone sometimes loses WiFi signal.

Thought I'd post a quick update. I set my IP to be static on Nexus and looks like signal got a bit stronger, it's Max or 3 bars without random dropping. Will see how it goes.

sarmatian said:
Is anybody experiencing wireless signal strength issues with Nexus 10 ?
In the same room with the router the signal strength drops from excellent to none and back at will. Router is fine, I have other devices (apple and windows based) which have no such issue.
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THis is a problem between Android and your router. Certain routers just have this issue, usually because they are not designed a specific way and do one thing or another out of official spec. This causes an Android device to drop out of connection every couple minutes or so. The biggest problem that causes this is routers that do not have a DHCP lease time set up. There are other causes too, but that was a major one. Also make sure you have wifi sleep mode set to never (I think it defaults to off when screen is off), and if you can also set your wifi mode to high performance (usually a kernel feature and I doubt we have it on this tablet yet)
Now this isnt talking about weak strength or losing bars. What I am describing is specifically for Android based devices that can have fine strength and then suddenly at any random time completely drop the connection to nothing, and then try to reconnect once more. Over and over
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Hm, this is a concern. Is that new MIMO wifi thing too new to be released in a product? Hope not.
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MIMO is OLD by now. Been around for years

I wanted to chime in here, because I was getting frustrated as well. I was having all sorts of trouble connecting to the 5Ghz signal from my Linksys e4200: sometimes it would show a connection but I wouldn't have internet access, other times the signal was super weak and unreliable. I went into my router's settings and changed the channel width to Auto (20Mhz or 40Mhz) and that resolved the problem immediately.
I hope this helps someone!

I am having a similar issue. Sitting about 10 feet from my router and my signal strength, bars, is down to 1. I know bars mean nothing but this is concerning.
Hopefully this is just a software issue. I have a spare wireless N router that I am going to hook up and use it just for the nexus to see if it helps.

Alleycat68 said:
Is it just the on screen meter showing the fluctuation or are you actually losing connectivity?
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Good question. I was actually thinking about creating a thread for this, but then I saw this! Anyway, I'm in my apartment where I usually get three out of four bars on my HTC one x, but on this tablet I'm getting between one and two, they switch from one to two nearly every ten seconds so maybe I'm right on the edge.
However, so far I have no complaints about Wi-Fi strength - I'm watching Netflix without any problems, browsing chrome is fast, and downloading apps has been fast. These are not very scientific tests, but in normal use it has been adequately speedy. Oh, except when I streamed the free HD video (I won't say which title in case anyone is trying to avoid " spoilers"), it switched from HD to standard definition a few times. could that have just been because lots of new N10 users were accessing it?

sarmatian said:
Is anybody experiencing wireless signal strength issues with Nexus 10 ?
In the same room with the router the signal strength drops from excellent to none and back at will. Router is fine, I have other devices (apple and windows based) which have no such issue.
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Not only do I not have signal issues, but the Nexus 10 is picking up about twice as many wifi networks as my Acer A500 or my DroidX, and no they aren't 5ghz, just better range.

Mine is. So far so good but I don't have a dual band router so I only have 2.4 GHz enabled' its definitely has better radio than my Acer iconia I tested both next to eachother. With Wi-Fi analyzer

I have the same problems... My WiFi signal is as good as it in my Hox, but sometimes my WiFi connexion drop and disappear, just to return after 1-2 seconds. Not sure if this could be a problem with my ****ty router but I have never experienced this "drops" with my phones or computers
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You didn't have any issues with WiFi analyzer? Did you use it in the view that does signal strength of nearby networks as curves?
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Matthileo said:
You didn't have any issues with WiFi analyzer? Did you use it in the view that does signal strength of nearby networks as curves?
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I've just done. I noticed that my WiFi signal had many "ups and downs", even using it in the same room where my router is. The signal wasn't very stable so I decided to use my phone as a router and connect the tablet. I have been browsing for a while with my phone WiFi network and I haven't suffer any drops. Signal has been stable so far and with the app WiFi analysed I get much better results.
So I think there is not any problem with the tablet. Somehow it is no it very "compatible" with my router. Not sure if the MIMO technology doesn't get along with my old router
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I've tried something that seems to help, although it doesn't fix it completely. I accessed into my router's advance settings and changed the "signal interval" from 100 to 10 msec. Not sure this will apply to anyone, but it helped people with similar issues in their iPhone 5 WiFi signal. As I said, my signal seems more stable now
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