My current router is the workhorse wrt54gt from Cisco. My iconia runs fast at home. Will I notice significant increases if I upgrade my wireless?
To be honest, I did not notice going from wrt54g to Cisco e4200 dual band n...... quit a difference on my lappy tho. Iconia not so much.
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Thanks. My laptops are older with G or on ethernet as are my ps3 and directv dvr's.
I connect my g/f's A500 and my A100 to my 2.4GHz N but never notice any difference. I suppose if you had 100Mbps FiOS or were downloading gigs of files on your LAN to the tab you might notice it.
As far as pure internet access goes, you won't really see a difference. Most people have internet under 54Mbps which is G speed. I use an N router to give higher speeds, because I stream lots of large content and stuff to my laptops and tablet. I can far surpass 54Mbps with the N setup. But the internet speed here is still just 7Mbps.... lol
willbur73 said:
As far as pure internet access goes, you won't really see a difference. Most people have internet under 54Mbps which is G speed. I use an N router to give higher speeds, because I stream lots of large content and stuff to my laptops and tablet. I can far surpass 54Mbps with the N setup. But the internet speed here is still just 7Mbps.... lol
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Unfortunately some routers have limited routing capabilities. You can have 54 Mbps WLAN, 48 Mbps internet, but you'll be able to use only 16Mbps of it. That was the reason I upgraded to 802.11n. If you can utilize all your internet bandwidth and don't use network-heavy applications, there is no point in upgrading.
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I see more difference with performance at a distance between an wireless router and computer operating at G standard and one operating at N standard. Possibly because the N routers I have had have been MIMO designs and I haven't had a G router with MIMO transmitters and receivers (not sure they are offered)
Guys: What kind of wifi internet speeds do you get on your acer iconia (using speedtest.net)? I have a real problem. I have a N-router - Linksys wrt150n and a fast comcast connection - 25Mbps. Most of the times I get 30-32 Mbps download with the wired LAN connection (and an upload of 5-6 Mbps). My wireless b/g/n laptop (when tested on speed test) gives me anywhere between 17 - 19 Mbps UP/5-6 Mbps DOWN which seems reasonable to me. However when it comes to Acer Iconia A500 tablet, I only get 1 - 2 Mbps download/4-5 Mbps upload (tested at the same time as laptop). I know iconia is rated b/g/n. So why is there such a difference? almost 1/10th. Is there anything that I am missing? My phone is 5 ghz and there is no interference that I can think of - If there was anything - it should affect the laptop wireless speed too. I have tried Dolphin browser, Opera browser, and the stock browser. Same results.
Please let me know if there is any setting on the tablet that needs to be enabled? Something else? I have fiddled with router settings also - auto vs n-only - almost same results.
Hi!
Has anyone reached more than 65 Mbps? I tried many different options on my Asus RT-N66U, but I haven't got faster. When I connect to my WLAN, SGN shows only 65 Mbps, while router supports up to 450. If there is a way to get faster I would greatly appreciate to know how) I use 5GHz, WPA2-PSK network
Thanks in advance
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Well, might as well respond to this.
Note is being advertised with 802.11N but it isn't exactly what you think. Usually if you see WiFi N you automatically think it's 150 or 300 or 450 in speed.
How they reach those theoretical maximum speeds is MIMO and higher bandwidth. (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output)
Now look at wifi routers or adapters. See a router with 150M? It has one antenna. See a router with 300M? It has two antennas. See a router with 450M? It has three antennas.
Now if you look at their specs you can see they support 20Mhz and 40Mhz bandwidth.
With single 20Mhz link the max you can reach on WiFi N is 72.2Mbps. With single 40Mhz link you can reach 150Mbps.
Now add another link and what happens? Possible speed doubles. Add another link and it triples compared to single.
See the chip/antenna in our phones (other phones as well) isn't simply capable of higher speeds.
The chip and antenna in our phone is only capable of single 20Mhz link. Add higher bandwidth -> more battery is drained. Add another link -> more battery is drained.
If I were you I'd take a quick look at the wiki page for IEEE 802.11 and read a little about the bandwidth, data rate and such. It's actually rather entertaining stuff.
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My views coming from a network administrator's perspective.
What sort of Router are you using, what sort of files are you accessing / transferring.
just an example, do you understand there are various type of switches, Normal, Low Latency, Ultra low latency etc...
My point is there are many factors to consider before you can reach certain speed, N specify XX speed means it can reach that speed but criteria do matters.
Hello all,
I'm not sure if this has been answered. If it's not in the proper forum, please move appropriately.
After updating from 4.2.2 to 4.3 (Stock android), my WiFi performance has gone down the tubes.
It was literally about 50mbps and it is now around 10mbps. The difference is night and day.
Anyone else seeing this?
Thanks,
cchhat01
Apparently,
Whatever they did, it only effects 5 GHz (802.11a/n) and not the 2.4 GHz (802.11b/g/n) bands.
Apparently I seem to have won the lottery because I don't use anything other than the 5 GHz band on my phone.
Just my luck,
Tried fresh install and update. Same result.
Phone flies with 2.4GHz wifi but throughput is about 15% on the 5GHz mode.
cchhat01
I am seeing the same thing. My DSL is 40Mbps down and I used to get 20-40ms pings but now when I run speed test on my N4 after 4.3, I now get 0.5-2Mbps and 100+ms pings. I tried a reboot and I still get the same thing. Might have to try a factory reset.
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I am seeing the same thing. My DSL is 40Mbps down and I used to get 20-40ms pings but now when I run speed test on my N4 after 4.3, I now get 0.5-2Mbps and 100+ms pings. I tried a reboot and I still get the same thing. Might have to try a factory reset.
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Not sure if we're experiencing the same problem. Do you have access to a 2.4/5GHz dual band router? If you have you tested speeds based on the different access points that correspond to the 2.4 and 5Ghz bands separately?
Here are my results:
5GHz: 11728 kbps down / 33493 kbps up
2.4GHz: 44368 kbps down / 63497 kbps up
Speeds are very consistently performing under 11mbps on 5GHz not sure what they changed here but it is safe to say that this is a kernel based change and not a baseband change. Hopefully this can be improved upon by our kernel devs.
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cchhat01
Yes, I have an Asus RT-AC66U dual band router. I do notice a major slowdown on the 5 GHz but the 2.4GHz is decent. My ping is kind of high (100ms+) in both cases though. On one of my computers that is wired to the router I consistently get 20-30ms for a ping.
Here are results from a speed test this morning:
5GHz results are about 2.5Mbps down and 4Mbps up
2.4GHz results are about 20Mbps down and 4.5Mbps up
Looks like I will be sticking with 2.4GHz for a little while. Hope this can be resolved soon.
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks for the update and proving my theory.
If more people can join in and verify these results, we might bring it to the attention to the kernel devs, who might know where the problem lies. I am not so sure a kernel fix would be coming anytime soon from google.
cchhat01
I have an Asus RT-N66U and was having the same issues. I didn't think to change the bands but my wifi speeds were horrible, so much so that I just went back to CM 10.1.2 because I don't have issues on it. My wifi would be fast at first boot around 30 mbps but after time I would drop down to like 100 kbps. My nexus 7 (original) had no slow down whatsoever. I may try to switch the bands to 2.4 because I didn't think about that but I really don't want to wipe and reinstall android again at this point.
Well i can't even connect to 5ghz anymore...
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Well i can't even connect to 5ghz anymore...
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That simply doesn't make sense.
Are you using Stock Android Kernel? I say kernel because WiFi accessibility/performance is based on the kernel. So if you are using the OTA update rom but then you flashed X-kernel, you need to bring that to the attention the kernel's developer.
Also, the other problem a lot of WiFi users experience is caused by the encryption method used while on WPA2 PSK.
The options are AES or TKIP. One of these won't work well with some phone's WiFi drivers and most of the time you can't pick and choose. If this is the case, try connecting to a router that has these options (OpenWrt firmware based routers gives you this option).
Hope this helps.
cchhat01
I'd like to point out that doing Internet speed tests to determine wifi speeds is a bit half baked.
To accurately measure your wifi throughput, you should be communicating with another device on your LAN.
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That simply doesn't make sense.
Are you using Stock Android Kernel? I say kernel because WiFi accessibility/performance is based on the kernel. So if you are using the OTA update rom but then you flashed X-kernel, you need to bring that to the attention the kernel's developer.
Also, the other problem a lot of WiFi users experience is caused by the encryption method used while on WPA2 PSK.
The options are AES or TKIP. One of these won't work well with some phone's WiFi drivers and most of the time you can't pick and choose. If this is the case, try connecting to a router that has these options (OpenWrt firmware based routers gives you this option).
Hope this helps.
cchhat01
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I agree that it doesn't make sense, but let me give you the details. I am 100% stock non rooted. this 5ghz network was working perfectly until I upgraded using adb sideload of the stock image. There is nothing else different. I have even tried disabling security to no avail.
I have this issue but its the opposite. 5ghz works well and the 2.4ghz is slow.
The same happens with my Nexus 10 as well. Just not as severe as a drop off.
Before 4.3 both devices had the same speeds on both bands.
I have the belkin AC1200db router.
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I got the same issues as you. My performance on both 2.4 and 5 GHz is abysmal. I can barely even connect to the 5 GHz channel. Both channels are giving me 2-3 Mbps max. I never used to have these problems.
Check out this Google forums thread:
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sour...=7R4MuI37CiwhwWjYfuR8ig&bvm=bv.50165853,d.eWU
They're having the same problems.
Thing is, my new 2013 N7 runs flawlessly on the 5 GHz channel. 20 Mbps every time.
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Solutions Etcetera said:
I'd like to point out that doing Internet speed tests to determine wifi speeds is a bit half baked.
To accurately measure your wifi throughput, you should be communicating with another device on your LAN.
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I agree about speedtests being done solely on the mobile phones are a moot point and half baked. However, I never implied that I rely solely on the data provided by my mobile phone. I have a couple of laptops and a desktop pc and all the devices (non-mobile phones) top out at the related 59 mbps speeds. My Nexus 4 always topped out at 50mpbs and I was really praising a device's ability to do so even in 20Mhz bandwidth (max data rates are 65mbps on the Nexus 4, meaning that i never connects at 802.11n speeds). However, post 4.3 upgrade (from 4.2.2 and also via a fresh install) left me questioning what went wrong with the 5 Ghz band. 2.4Ghz was working fine.
El Daddy said:
I have this issue but its the opposite. 5ghz works well and the 2.4ghz is slow.
The same happens with my Nexus 10 as well. Just not as severe as a drop off.
Before 4.3 both devices had the same speeds on both bands.
I have the belkin AC1200db router.
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I can't say why this is happening on your nexus 4. It truly does bother me. Maybe something having to do with you method of upgrading to 4.3? Were you rooted before?
Also, the drivers are baked into the kernel. Nexus 4 and other devices will most likely use different drivers and hence the performance is bound to vary. My wife's Galaxy S3 doesn't come close to my Nexus 4 wifi speeds even though the S3 connects at 40Mhz bandwidth.
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I got the same issues as you. My performance on both 2.4 and 5 GHz is abysmal. I can barely even connect to the 5 GHz channel. Both channels are giving me 2-3 Mbps max. I never used to have these problems.
Check out this Google forums thread:
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sour...=7R4MuI37CiwhwWjYfuR8ig&bvm=bv.50165853,d.eWU
They're having the same problems.
Thing is, my new 2013 N7 runs flawlessly on the 5 GHz channel. 20 Mbps every time.
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Again, different device, different Kernel and ultimately different wifi driver.
If I were you, I would also post my findings about your other devices on their appropriate forums.
Thanks,
cchhat01
Same problem. My router is only 2.4 GHz and it is set for G only. Before the upgrade to 4.3 I was consistently getting 20 Mbps average. After the upgrade to 4.3 I am now only getting 10 Mbps average. On the plus side, my data speed has increased 3 to 7 fold.
Having trouble as well. We have 75mb down with FIOS. We get that speed on our desktops and on our Nexus 10s. Our Nexus 4s, connected to the same exact router as the Nexus 10s, were getting 700 K down! I set wireless to 2.4Ghz only instead of Auto and was able to bump the speed to 14mb down. That at least is MUCH MUCH better, but it still annoys me I can't get our full speed on the phones. When I look at the wireless connection on Nexus 10 and Nexus 4, I see a big difference in reported link speed to the router. 130MB on the Nexus 10 and 24MB on the Nexus 4. I've pushed my understanding of the issue as far as I can. I'm stuck now - have no idea why there is such a huge difference.
Try different channels on your router. Some people are reporting success with that. Also, make sure your router firmware is up to date.
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FYI, I've been experiencing the same problem on my Galaxy Nexus since updating to 4.3. My router is a Linksys EA4500 (one of the N900 models). It's a simultaneous dual band model. It's firmware is current. I have a different SSID for the 2.4 GHz band and the 5 GHz band. Wifi Analyzer shows absolutely no other nearby networks on the 5GHz band. The neighbors are only using 2.4 GHz.
The 2.4 GHz band has been fine for the most part; it's the 5 GHz that's giving me problems. For the 5 GHz band I've tried every combination of channel, width, wifi standard (N-only, A-only, auto). On some combination of settings I cannot connect to the 5 GHz band, even when it's found. With other combos, I can connect to 5 GHz, but speeds are a quarter to one half their usual. On rare occasions I'm able to get it up to normal fast speed, but then an hour later it's back to being slow again. Sometimes when the 5 GHz band is slow for a day or two, the 2.4 GHz band starts to slow down, too. On the phone I have turned off the wifi "always scanning" and "optimize" options.
Lately I've just kept the phone on 2.4 GHz only. I'm just about ready to force the phone back to 4.2.2.
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FYI, I've been experiencing the same problem on my Galaxy Nexus since updating to 4.3. My router is a Linksys EA4500 (one of the N900 models). It's a simultaneous dual band model. It's firmware is current. I have a different SSID for the 2.4 GHz band and the 5 GHz band. Wifi Analyzer shows absolutely no other nearby networks on the 5GHz band. The neighbors are only using 2.4 GHz.
The 2.4 GHz band has been fine for the most part; it's the 5 GHz that's giving me problems. For the 5 GHz band I've tried every combination of channel, width, wifi standard (N-only, A-only, auto). On some combination of settings I cannot connect to the 5 GHz band, even when it's found. With other combos, I can connect to 5 GHz, but speeds are a quarter to one half their usual. On rare occasions I'm able to get it up to normal fast speed, but then an hour later it's back to being slow again. Sometimes when the 5 GHz band is slow for a day or two, the 2.4 GHz band starts to slow down, too. On the phone I have turned off the wifi "always scanning" and "optimize" options.
Lately I've just kept the phone on 2.4 GHz only. I'm just about ready to force the phone back to 4.2.2.
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I have started too experience the same problem on my Nexus 4 running 4.3. Everything was fine with 4.3 up until yesterday when I noticed my phone would no longer connect to 5GHz access points. I upgraded to 4.3 many weeks ago, so the issue did not begin right away.
I have seen this same problem on the Galaxy Nexus (multiple different ones) and the conclusion seemed to be some kind of hardware failure preventing the 5GHz wifi from working. Seeing the same issue reemerge on a completely different phone/platform is very concerning.
Let me ask you this, can you connect to your 5GHz wifi access point if your 1-5 meters away? I mean literately, stand next to the router and attempt to connect. I can get full speed 5GHz wifi this way on my Nexus 4 but walk away a few feet and the signal drops completely.
Can't connect at all on 5 GHz WiFi Cisco e2500
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As far as I am concerned the S4 has capabilities of WiFi speeds of up to 433Mbits.
I have a TP-Link AP and configured it as follows:
11n Only
Channel 11
20/40MHx
Max Tx Rate 300Mbits
Security WPA2 AES
However on my S4 I get only 65Mbits
On my ISPs modem/router (Arris) I have the same setup with Channel 6 and I get 75Mbits.
Even if I get very close to the device, the bandwidth won't change. I know I can't get the 300Mbits but I cannot understand why I can't get at least the same 75 that I get with the Arris device or even at least higher than the 75.
If I do a speedtest.net speed test at home via wifi I can get 117MBits over 5G wireless on my S4 so I'd say it was your set up mate. Let me know what you're using to test your network speeds and i'll do a comparison for you
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Maybe flash another modem? Not sure if it will work, but worth a try
Me Gusta!
I'm not talking about data speed but local Wi-Fi only, not internet speed. I'm just using the Wi-Fi manager desktop widget which shows me the max speed for each network as soon as it connects.I know that this is approximate but since it always shows 75 on one and 65 on the other, it certainly means something
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andreasy said:
I'm not talking about data speed but local Wi-Fi only, not internet speed. I'm just using the Wi-Fi manager desktop widget which shows me the max speed for each network as soon as it connects.I know that this is approximate but since it always shows 75 on one and 65 on the other, it certainly means something
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The highest link speed I get from my i9505 with N Type router is 72 Mbps.
We're talking about 2.4Ghz N300 here even when they are only 1 cm apart.
I've only ever got these speeds on every Rom and modem I've used, stock or rooted.
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andreasy said:
I'm not talking about data speed but local Wi-Fi only, not internet speed. I'm just using the Wi-Fi manager desktop widget which shows me the max speed for each network as soon as it connects.I know that this is approximate but since it always shows 75 on one and 65 on the other, it certainly means something
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Data is data wherever is coming from. We're measuring the speed over the wifi here.
65-70 MBits is more than acceptable over 2.4Ghz. If you want faster change your router for a 5Ghz model.
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Painman1963 said:
Data is data wherever is coming from. We're measuring the speed over the wifi here.
65-70 MBits is more than acceptable over 2.4Ghz. If you want faster change your router for a 5Ghz model.
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Or buy another Smartphone with dualchannel connect… (My second Phone is "Huawei G700" and that connect my 2,4GHz Router with 135 Mbit/s! My S4 connect the same Router with 72Mbit/s only!)
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I was wondering if I was the only one who notice the link speed is only 433 on 5ghz. I have 866 with a s8 on the same router. Any ideas
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I was wondering if I was the only one who notice the link speed is only 433 on 5ghz. I have 866 with a s8 on the same router. Any ideas
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Different hardware, different Wi-Fi chip inside the Xiaomi, less speed. For a budget phone it's an decent speed. What's your Internet speed anyway at home or where you use the 5ghz?
I'm testing a gigabyte connection and I always test new devices max speed. I'm ok with 433 irl about 250ish. But I get more than 500 on a s8. I was wondering if it was a setting or something. Thanks
Even POCO F1 is 866 Mbps
same here max on 5ghz is 433mb it does max my speed which is 220mb, on 2.4ghz max i get is 67mb, I also came from S8 which on 2.4ghz gave me 120mb , the speed i get is still more then enough for me and how much the device costs can live with that and the range is similar to S8
Thanks