When I first bought the touch HD I was thinking how good it would be to have this phone while having wifi with the lack of 3g for tmobile in the us, but it turns out that the wifi acutally suck! I have a iPod touch 2g And the wifi works great with blazing speed. I can't seem to detect my wifi at home mean while I'm connected on my wifi with my iPod. I been very disappoint with this phone for simple fact that this phone recieves wifi poorly. Anyone can help me out with this problem would be much appreciated because despite the wifi problem I love the phone cause the 3.8 screen is so damn sexual lol.
I've no such issues!
Try to set wifi power options to performance. Also, Enabling G Mode (with SKTools is one of the ways) helps improve speed.
Thanks for the info but it might be the lack of range of my router cause I have been on my wifi with the phone before but I get disconnected frequently and most the time it doesn't even show up or detect it but I don't have that problem with the iPod. With iPod I seem to get wifi everywhere. I'm starting to believe the iPod is better might sell it and get a iPhone or maybe a hero but don't know if I'm willing to spend 600+ on another phone
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My wifi connects well to open, WEP, and WPA connections. I tried numerous access points (at least 30), even 802.11n APs in mixed g mode. It even connects to Apple Airport (802.11g). The connection is stable both on power saving and best performance, but I think I get much better speeds on average with best performance.
Its wifi range is much better than my little HP 613 smartphone, but again worse than my notebook. I get 54Mbit connection with signal quality of about 50% at 10 meters through a wall and then it automatically finds another channel on another AP. It roams (handover) APs better than some Lenovo r61 laptops around!
But I am not satisfied with its speed (even on best performance) - it finishes copying a 700MB file on a 54 Mbit connection in 30-40 minutes using total commander and saving on storage card. That means average speed is around 300-400KB/s - laptop does the same (same AP, same file, same network settings) at 1.6-1.8 MB/s in around 7 minutes.
I also noticed that saving on storage card is slighty faster than into the main memory...
I can't seem to detect my wifi at home mean while I'm connected on my wifi with my iPod.
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Hmm, are you sure that you don't compare two different situations ? Did you also try connecting to Wifi with your iPod while already being connected with your Blackstone ?
My personal experience shows me that the Touch HD seems to have a better radio than the iPhone 3G. Have you upgraded to the latest Blackstone stock ROM and radio available on the HTC website or XDA Devs ? Whether or not the radio also affects Wifi unfortunately I don't know.
Moreover, use WifiMonster to monitor the strength of the signal, it'll help you discover the best spots for using Wifi. I even receive Wifi signals from the neighbors' houses in my own house (not speaking about appartments), of course that always depends on the room !
BTW I'm pretty sure that a Hero won't solve your problem, it's the same old hardware specs as on the Blackstone.
The Wifi on my device works perfectly and i have had no issues at all with signal or quality. I have had more problems with my ipod than the HTC, are you sure its not the WIFI AP you are trying to connect to? Also are you using stock rom or custom?
I'm using the Energy ROM. I'm assume its my wifi signal its very weak and my touch hd cant seem to detect it. With my ipod i shows up and i can connect to it...will updating the radio make a difference?
I came across a startling discovery the other day regarding the Touch HD wifi. I was also having issues at home with weak wifi signal. I didn’t seem to have this problem with public access hot spots.
I have a Logitech wireless mouse connected to my computer and very rarely turn that computer off. I found that when my computer was off I would get a rock solid connection to my home wifi, but when the computer was on it would drop in and out. I narrowed it down to the wireless mouse was interfering with the Touch HD wifi connection.
I tried all different channels on my router, but as long as the Logitech mouse was plugged it I would get wifi dropouts. But as soon as I unplugged the mouse and the radio dongle, I wouldn’t have any problems with the Touch HD wifi.
I can’t comment if this is your issue, but something might be interfering in the 2.4Ghz with wifi.
Guys,
Sometimes even cordless phones, microwaves, etc will interfere with the connection.
Cheers.
As Poison Wolf correctly pointed out, other household items can interfere with the wireless frequency. Try changing the channel that's being used to transmit from your box (This will involve changing some settings on your wireless router so do some research before you fiddle around with it) I have had to do this before and can confirm it can make a massive difference.
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But I am not satisfied with its speed (even on best performance) - it finishes copying a 700MB file on a 54 Mbit connection in 30-40 minutes using total commander and saving on storage card. That means average speed is around 300-400KB/s - laptop does the same (same AP, same file, same network settings) at 1.6-1.8 MB/s in around 7 minutes.
I also noticed that saving on storage card is slighty faster than into the main memory...
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Everybody has this problem because the card seems not capable of more speed.
But it seems nearly nobody cares.
My old thread about his, no answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524272
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Everybody has this problem because the card seems not capable of more speed.
But it seems nearly nobody cares.
My old thread about his, no answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524272
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Stron,
Hmm, interesting. The only reasoning I can think of is that perhaps there's a limiting factor in order to reduce the heat or something? I don't see why they would cap the speeds.
Cheers.
What if it is capable of connecting at 54 Mbit, but can actually do only 11 Mbit? Nice trick. I hope it is just a bad idea.
I installed a speed check app from the market and tried it out on my G1. Even when I'm sitting right next to my wireless router (WRT-54g, running DD-WRT), the download speed only goes up to about 2300 kbps.
A similar test connecting to the same server on my laptop shows speeds of around 4-6 Mbps.
Is this normal or is something amiss?
Didnt you make a thread like this already?
Anywho, a phone cant have the same speed as a laptop chip set.For example my card is intel 4965 or something like that, it has B/G/N so it has better range,speed which would explain why its faster than the generic Cheap chip set found in your G1. Maybe there's a limit on that G1 that stops it from accepting certain speeds or something, 3G is 7.2MB HSPDA blah blah blah, i think your speed is normal i don't use wifi since battery life is short.
The G1 supports Wireless b/g
Wireless g can transfer at speeds up to 54Mbits/s or 6.75MBytes/s
Realistically Wireless g transfers at speeds of about 2-3MBytes/s
Wireless N...
wait...
you have a WRT-54G which doesnt support N...
hmmm
Well
The G1 runs at a mere 528MHz and your Laptop probably runs at 2GHz
So theres a lot more processing power to process all the data going to the Wifi AP
Even if you... somehow... get a gigabit ethernet port running on the G1 it will be much slower than having a gigabit ethernet port running on a laptop. The G1's CPU just cannot take that load
Also the program you're running on the G1 would be running in a Virtual machine.
Running software in a VM is much slower than running software natively
Are those numbers kbits or kbytes, Mbits or Mbytes per sec?
Unfortunately this behavior is normal. The G1 has inherent "slow" issues concerning data. If you check, you will also notice that the latency is 80 to 200 times greater on the G1 than your laptop on the same wifi as well...
I noticed this during my first week of using the G1. I had hoped that it would have been fixed with an update (Cupcake, Donut, etc) but it has not been fixed so far. I have done a lot of testing, and I don't think that it has anything to do with the processor. I think it is a network stack buffer issue, or possibly a driver issue. I have raised a thread or two about this on the official T-Mobile forums about a year ago, but no one seems to know anything about it so far.
hey all - I must be doing something wrong.
I've rooted my DX, and am running the OTA 2.3.15.
using either WiFi Tether or Barnacle I get the same results no matter where I am or what I am doing:
initial connection is good and download speeds approx 500k (occasionally as high as 1Mbs). then after 5 minutes or so... connection slows to a crawl and then finally dies.
nothing I do seems to make any difference at that point. *sometimes* the connection will pick back up for a minute but then it conks out again.
I've tried every combination of Access Control and WEP but to no avail.
I've tried in at least 5 different places - all of which had a strong signal (steady 4 bars) with same results...
I've searched around on the web and on the forums but the signal to noise ratio is too high and I can't seem to find an answer.
any help would be appreciated.
cheers,
b
do you have a windows computer or a mac? i have a mac with both installed, and when i tether with the mac booted, it does the same as you, but when i use windows it tethers no problem...havent heard anyone say its different with the 2 but its been pretty consistent with me that it works on windows and not apple...
I wish I had the answer. But I don't. But I do have the same problem. And I have read the same from others. It really bums me out. I thought it was bc my signal was bad. But you say you have a good signal and it still does it. Dang it! I wonder why some people have no problems and some people have nothing but problems.
I finally got so tired of it I bought Easy Tether and now tether USB. But it is a pain. And not always an option (like if you would like to tether an ipad or something).
Hope someone offers a solution. I am thinking about trading my X bc of this.
yeah - interesting about the Windows vs Mac info... I'll have to try that out.
are other (VZ) phones *not* having this problem?
I did get some kind of response on another forum about command-line tethering working no problem. using terminal I guess. I'll look into it and post it I find anything.
All: I just got my WiFi Xoom, and I have it tethered to my (rooted) HTC Thunderbolt using WiFi Tether.
It connects fine, but seems slow when using Speedtest.net - I only get about 2Mbps Down, and less than 1Mbps up. When I tether other devices to the Thunderbolt (4G LTE) I seem to get much better performance which seems more in line with the performance it is capable of.
So, I was curious to know if there was some sort of a limitation or issue with the WiFi speeds when tethering on the Xoom? I can't say I see speed issues with the Xoom when connected to an access point at home on a cable modem.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Rob
I dont know but the fist time I did a speed test with my TB and my laptop was very fast over 20BM, I did reset my phone and rooted one more time,now Im having the same problem :-( if someone know please help how to fix it!
Samthing here, when using the "internet connection" mode I get 20mbps but when using PDA net or Easy Tether on my TB it's like 1.5mpbs! Anyone got any ideas?
just did 2 quick tests with wifi tether and got about 6 down.
I recently upgraded my xfinity WiFi to 600Mbps, but my G6 is never able to get much better speeds than 300Mbps. My wife has a samsung 10se and she gets 550+.. I ran some diagnostics with a tech and everything is fine with the gateway. I get 600+ with Ethernet on my PC.. Can’t find anything related to this. Does anyone else have this issue?