WiFi strength, range, and throughput

WiFi strength, range, and throughput - Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Real Life Review

Rate this thread to express how you think the Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018)'s Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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Using it for 3 days. So far very good, It has a good range but not good as premium phones. For example before this phone i used p10 plus and it could catch wifi signal even from bottom of the building (I am living at top of the building). With A8(2018) im starting to catch wifi when I climb to second or third floor.

Wifi-Signal sometimes breaks off. I recognised this while using "WhatsApp-desktop." I think a further update will fix it.

it is very solid but you have to watch your hands from blocking the antenas sometimes during games.

hi guys yea i comfirm i have problems with network also which is very weak comparing to my old phone Galaxy note 3 ... i changed for this one ( A8), working fine but a bit slower and its enoying for me if i knew it i could stay with my old phone x) ... i hope there will be solutions to fix this

Ive had my A8 for 3 weeks and it constantly disconnected from wifi, both at home and the office. The wifi icon will get an exclamation point on it and I either have to wait for it to reconnect, or if it doesnt reconnect I have to turn off/on the phone's wifi.
Anyone else experience this? It's so bad I may take it into warranty.

utaputa said:
Ive had my A8 for 3 weeks and it constantly disconnected from wifi, both at home and the office. The wifi icon will get an exclamation point on it and I either have to wait for it to reconnect, or if it doesnt reconnect I have to turn off/on the phone's wifi.
Anyone else experience this? It's so bad I may take it into warranty.
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Can't confirm that. I would test it maybe on a third wifi, but I don't think it will change something.
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Never had any issues with mine, even worked fine out in the workshop which is a good 100m from the router, through several walls and across the yard. Not quite as good as the S9+ but that was double the price of the A8.

utaputa said:
Ive had my A8 for 3 weeks and it constantly disconnected from wifi, both at home and the office. The wifi icon will get an exclamation point on it and I either have to wait for it to reconnect, or if it doesnt reconnect I have to turn off/on the phone's wifi.
Anyone else experience this? It's so bad I may take it into warranty.
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Yes, this is because the phone keeps switching between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz network. Disable or rename 5Ghz is your best option.

Much much better than my Moto X Play.

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WiFi dissapointing

Went into college today for the first time with my new HD. Two of the folks in my class have iPhones.
Anyway, from the start of the day, the colleges wifi was coming and going on my phone, the signal strength was barely registering and I could not browse at all. I went into WiFi advanced settings and set power to full, this made little difference.
Both my friends with iPhones were able to browse happily.
I'm now home and deciding to check out performance here. I've just gone back into WiFi - Advanced, made sure power was at "Best Performance". My battery is at about 70%. All I'm getting is 3 bars of signal strength, varying from about 50-60% signal.
Here's the problem, I'm only sitting literally 6 feet from the router. I'd call that f'n lousy.
My laptop shows a connection signal strength of 100% / Full Bars / 100%.
So WiFi signal strength is lousy at College and lousy here at home. Is there anything i can do ?

I experience exactly the same reception quality with my HD. But for what its worth, this is exactly the same performance I got with my Touch Pro and my TyTn II before that.

.....mmmm yes I had a tytn and it was bad compared to my great xda2i...
I wonder if it is something a radio update could solve? i'm getting my HD thursday!!

If you plug in your headphone, does the signal strength improve?

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If you plug in your headphone, does the signal strength improve?
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No, and I even tried connecting to external power. made no difference. I also notice that if I tilt the HD a bit this way and that the signal drops even further. I have had it here at 15-20% while sitting 6 feet from the Router.
This to me is a deal breaker, I dont think I can live with this. Its bloody awful, and I hate the way it kept dropping the wifi connection in college.

Hmm not sure of the problem, my Wifi signal strength is pretty much equal to my PCs, im 20 feet away and get 80%.

I've never been able to get reliable wifi on my Tytn. Sad to hear the problem persists in a handset I was considering moving up to.

I'm satisfied with the signal strength. Yes, it is weaker than on my netbook or my notebook, but I use the "Best Battery" mode and I get around 80% signal strength 15 feet away from my router.

Ugh say it ain't so.

I use the WiFi to listen to internet radio around the house.
I've not experienced any problems even when upstairs at the furthest distance from my cheap-n'-cheerful Netgear router. At this range, the signal will have to pass through several brick walls.
Having discovered the signal strength readout in the settings, I notice that it does not read very high, but this doesn't seem to adversely affect the performance.
As far as I am concerned, the WiFi is "fit for purpose" and doesn't seem to differ much from my laptop.

Maybe your wifi is defective... Mine works fine with walls between me and the router, my TyTN II also has no problems, my old TyTN used to drop the connection as soon as it connected, was useless for wifi.

Hmm
I'm sorry to say that my wifi on the HD works fantastic. It even picks up wifi networks my netbook deosn't. I use it all day long at home then connect when at work.
I don't care what the signal strength is in various rooms I just get on with it. Having said that its 3 or 4 bars in all the rooms so all good here.
What sort of Routers are you having problems with?
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Hmm
I'm sorry to say that my wifi on the HD works fantastic. It even picks up wifi networks my netbook doesn't. I use it all day long at home then connect when at work.
I don't care what the signal strength is in various rooms I just get on with it. Having said that its 3 or 4 bars in all the rooms so all good here.
What sort of Routers are you having problems with?
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I'd like to hear from ppl who have tested the device within a weak WiFi zone such as my room in college.
My experience was that it drops the network. Literally would drop it as soon as it had connected. I was nearly crying. In the same place, my laptop and my mates iPhones work grand. So maybe some of you could test it in weak zones.
To those of you defending it and saying its fit for purpose, please dont forget how much we paid for this thing. I would have expected decent WiFi. It clearly isnt! Another thing that dissapoints.
Regarding what kind or routers I'm usin, DLINK, Netgear and I aint got a clue what they run in college. But thats not the point, the point is that in my place of work, the only device that does not work at all is my VERY EXPENSIVE Touch HD. Everything else (laptops, iphones, other phones) works. That makes me kinda sick

I've had very good signal at home and at work where its a big building. I think something might be wrong with yours try to have it exchanged.

I don't have the device, but on my Artemis I can select how good the wifi works, either auto, battery optimized or full power. Whenever I select full power it gets a better signal. Maybe you have such an option on your device too?

I have connected to about 4 different WIFI routers without problems.
The furthest was about 50 meters away with solid walls... Perhaps there is a fault with your HD? Consider returning for a replacement and see if it's any better.

objective opinion
theoretically, Touch HD's (and most of the HTC's phones) should have weaker wifi performance than iphone. Performance = throughput and/or ability to lock onto signals and/or range.
reason: touch hd uses TI (Texas Instrument)'s wifi chip, lab testings shows about 12 mbps
iphone uses Marvel wifi chip, lab testing shows 18 mbps.
TI chip is much cheaper in price than marvels, that's the reason why HTC chose them.
that being said, i have seen weak wifi signals in my house, where it would see the AP, but can't associate (at certain spots). but for me, once it associates , it will lock on pretty well. wifi through put is definitely weaker than iphone, despite the CPU advantage -> 528 MHz, vs. iphone's downclocked 400 Mhz (from 667MHz)
also, your school would uses enterprise AP, so it's either cisco or aruba. but it should not make a difference. the immediate remedy for your HOME, is to go into the router's console and change the channel away from the default 1, 6 or 11. those three channels have the most interference, because most ppl don't bother change them, so your neighbor would be on those channel too.

Mine seems to work 'ok'...
I live in a 100+ year old house, so the walls are pretty thick!
If I'm in the bedroom furthest from my router, my laptop gets a weak signal - and my HD does too (just about enough to watch YouTube with only a very occasional break)
So it certainly seems no worse - and considering that HD have squeezed a laptop into the size of a flattened fag packet, I'm happy enough with that

gt112 said:
I'd like to hear from ppl who have tested the device within a weak WiFi zone such as my room in college.
My experience was that it drops the network. Literally would drop it as soon as it had connected. I was nearly crying. In the same place, my laptop and my mates iPhones work grand. So maybe some of you could test it in weak zones.
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I don't exactly have that situation but:
- I use a US Robotics access point
- When sitting 6ft away from it, I get near ~100% signal strength, as you would expect
- Through some walls I get only a very slight decrease in signal strength
- My phone often picks up access points that my laptop (macbook pro, has quite reliable wireless) in other homes which are separated by thick concrete walls and easily 30 to 60 feet away
- At the office I can use my wireless outside, if I'm at least close to the building
- So basically it works as efficient as the wireless on any decent notebook I've used, which usually have stronger and better powered receivers than phones
gt112 said:
To those of you defending it and saying its fit for purpose, please dont forget how much we paid for this thing. I would have expected decent WiFi. It clearly isnt! Another thing that dissapoints.
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True, you must expect nothing less than good performance, and as stated by many people, you can also expect the HD to offer that performance, it is simply there (well on the average HD). Something must not be working right, either the radio version, glitchy software, or in the worst case, the hardware is faulty, it happens on the best devices. If your wireless receiver has a hardware fault causing it to conflict you will see these drops as the device randomly disables en reenables all the time.
I'd suggest making use of your warranty while you still can.

COMMUNICATIONS: WiFi Strength, Range, and Throughput

The Note5 has dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac WiFi. Rate this thread to express how you think the Note5's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength.
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I have a TMO Note 5 came from an S5 and the Wifi seems to not hang on as well for me, regular use is fine, but too weak for the wifi calling. The s5 didn't seem to have the issue. I'm going to hit up tech support and see if maybe it's just my Note 5. (I have seen 2 identical phones side by side but different signal strengths). It's only the 5Ghz though and doesn't matter which Channel.

Yes, the range, signal quality actuallay spped of wifi strength was AWFUL when I first got my phone, but a few updates to lolipop and it was working exccellent. Good wifi signal, speed and no drop out. However, Since I've been on Marshmallow, I almost see no performance change. That could be good or bad because I was expecting more on the more recent updates after Marshmallow. I have no complaints here cause I don't use wifi when I'm at work but wifi is awesome at home, the gym, moms house and every where in between. How can a big cell phone company make a phone that has terrible wifi signal strength and speed?

I've mainly been using LTE/4G as I'm on an Unlimited data plan but when I connect to WiFi the speeds are awesome and my internet speed is 100mbps and I get around 70-80mbps via WiFi on my Note 5. Strength is great also where I'm still connected at the end of the house compared to my dad's iPhone.

moustafasadek11 said:
I've mainly been using LTE/4G as I'm on an Unlimited data plan but when I connect to WiFi the speeds are awesome and my internet speed is 100mbps and I get around 70-80mbps via WiFi on my Note 5. Strength is great also where I'm still connected at the end of the house compared to my dad's iPhone.
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Nice to have an unlimited data plan, I just joined verizon a little too late to be grandfathered in. But it's nice to see the Juggernaught 5 is an amazing and fast phone

Rate this thread to express how you think the Honor 6X's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
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Constant Wifi disconnects at work, gym, any place that has more than 10 people using the wifi. Home use its fine.

WiFi and network no issues, better den any other phone... Previously I had Redmi note 3 was getting only 2 bars of network...While in Honor 6x I'm getting full network

no issues with wifi connectivity

Everything ok after two weeks of usage

No issues seen till date. Been using this phone since Dec and havent encountered the issue with Wi-FI strength. most of the time full bars unless I am in closed room or around 20 ft from hotspot.

Bito401 said:
Constant Wifi disconnects at work, gym, any place that has more than 10 people using the wifi. Home use its fine.
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That could be wifi signal issues as well or if they have limited the nunber of devixes for simultaneous connection.

No signal drop in home

In fact i can get wifi sometimes (not always) aon ground floor from my home at 7th floor (around 90 ft distance easily)

shashank1320 said:
In fact i can get wifi sometimes (not always) aon ground floor from my home at 7th floor (around 90 ft distance easily)
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Thats wow..wife strength and range is pretty good.

hassanjavaid8181 said:
Thats wow..wife strength and range is pretty good.
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Sometimes not alwsys..or neighbours will hack and use it daily :silly:

shashank1320 said:
Sometimes not alwsys..or neighbours will hack and use it daily :silly:
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Lol

Gets maximum speed and strength is very good

All good with 5GHz routers.

no issue at all.perfect

Maximizes the speed of wifi. Very good.

Great WiFi speeds and signal on the Honor 6X.