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So my FUZE won't connect to the internet with certain programs (E.g. Internet Explorer). Everything else works fine, opera, mms, etc. When I go to IE, it immediately loads a popup and says "Cannot connect with current connection settings. To change your connection settings, tap settings". Any advice? My 3G speed is also terrible. I have an H icon and tested my speed and got 81kbps... Any advice on that?

hah2110 said:
So my FUZE won't connect to the internet with certain programs (E.g. Internet Explorer). Everything else works fine, opera, mms, etc. When I go to IE, it immediately loads a popup and says "Cannot connect with current connection settings. To change your connection settings, tap settings". Any advice? My 3G speed is also terrible. I have an H icon and tested my speed and got 81kbps... Any advice on that?
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I just noticed this same issue with Internet Explorer. I never see the H - only G and E(dge). I'm on the original ROM. The last registry change I did was to re-map the PTT button. Before that, IE was working and the only changes I did were the top two performance tweaks from the tweak thread here.

hah2110 said:
So my FUZE won't connect to the internet with certain programs (E.g. Internet Explorer). Everything else works fine, opera, mms, etc. When I go to IE, it immediately loads a popup and says "Cannot connect with current connection settings. To change your connection settings, tap settings". Any advice? My 3G speed is also terrible. I have an H icon and tested my speed and got 81kbps... Any advice on that?
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Same here. Absolutely horrendous speeds, usually it actually times out. I still have a Samsung BlackJack II and also a Moto V3XX and I have tested sitting right in the same location, put my SIM in each of those other two devices and go to the same websites, everything works just fine, fast and normal. Then I put my SIM back in the Fuze and it's so slow it's literally unusable.
Going to try going back to the store and getting a replacement but I am afraid this might be an issue with the ROM. But I don't want to flash to a cooked ROM in case ATT won't take it back.

DrunkenOstrich said:
Same here. Absolutely horrendous speeds, usually it actually times out. I still have a Samsung BlackJack II and also a Moto V3XX and I have tested sitting right in the same location, put my SIM in each of those other two devices and go to the same websites, everything works just fine, fast and normal. Then I put my SIM back in the Fuze and it's so slow it's literally unusable.
Going to try going back to the store and getting a replacement but I am afraid this might be an issue with the ROM. But I don't want to flash to a cooked ROM in case ATT won't take it back.
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Hi,
You can always undo what you flashed back to the stock roms/SPL.
HardSPL - http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Raphael_HardSPL
Stock/Shipped ROMS - http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Raphael_WM6.1_ROMs
Search for more information.

bfspider said:
Hi,
You can always undo what you flashed back to the stock roms/SPL.
HardSPL - http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Raphael_HardSPL
Stock/Shipped ROMS - http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Raphael_WM6.1_ROMs
Search for more information.
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Thanks much!
I noticed there are four different versions of the ATT ROM for this device. Since some people are having big data speed issues and some are happily working away, I wonder if some of the stock ROM versions have issues and others don't?

DrunkenOstrich said:
Thanks much!
I noticed there are four different versions of the ATT ROM for this device. Since some people are having big data speed issues and some are happily working away, I wonder if some of the stock ROM versions have issues and others don't?
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I'm not too sure because I haven't played with the stock ROM at all. I jumped on the cooked ROM band wagon and I am now using ROMeOS at the moment. Later, when I get a moment, I'll try out the Cooked ATT ROM that NATF has put together.
One of the major complains of the stock ATT ROM is that HSPDA was shut off and that only 3G was being used. I know when I get a decent H signal, the Internet is pretty snappy. This is on the ROMeOS ROM.

hah2110 said:
So my FUZE won't connect to the internet with certain programs (E.g. Internet Explorer). Everything else works fine, opera, mms, etc. When I go to IE, it immediately loads a popup and says "Cannot connect with current connection settings. To change your connection settings, tap settings". Any advice? My 3G speed is also terrible. I have an H icon and tested my speed and got 81kbps... Any advice on that?
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I had this problem. Navigate to Programs>Tools>Proxy Manager. Once there tap on "Restore Proxy" This did the trick for me.

bfspider said:
I'm not too sure because I haven't played with the stock ROM at all. I jumped on the cooked ROM band wagon and I am now using ROMeOS at the moment. Later, when I get a moment, I'll try out the Cooked ATT ROM that NATF has put together.
One of the major complains of the stock ATT ROM is that HSPDA was shut off and that only 3G was being used. I know when I get a decent H signal, the Internet is pretty snappy. This is on the ROMeOS ROM.
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How fast? My phone shows 3G and using Opera I got the following from DSL reports speed test:
1345 kbit/sec
0.32s latency
6.363s d/l time.again.
And that was after it forced me to do the 1MB download because it wasn't able to calculate the test at the lower file sizes.
Seems like I'm pretty much in line with other posters speeds who show the H, no?

nthdgreee said:
I had this problem. Navigate to Programs>Tools>Proxy Manager. Once there tap on "Restore Proxy" This did the trick for me.
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Yup, that fixed my IE. Thanks!
And my Opera still works.
Must be an INI file or something for IE...
Right now I'm at home, so no 3G for me (Edge if I even get a signal at all usually) so I can't tell if it's (opera) slower.
Will this negatively impact tethering? Haven't tried it yet, but will soon.

I just did a bunch of testing between my Fuze and my Blackjack II for comparison. Others with the speed issues are in another thread, I posted a lengthy post with lots of test data in there. Please check it out and add to it what you can.
Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=445850
Post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2910946&postcount=18

Where do you guys test your speed? The only DSL reports mobile speed test are up to 100k and that is too small. All the other tests I can find (anywhere) are either flash or java based and those applets never load on either Opera or IE.

I was able to get a toast blue angels test to run. Got 1809k WOOHOO. And IE works now, thanks!

FuzzyLogic_FC said:
Yup, that fixed my IE. Thanks!
And my Opera still works.
Must be an INI file or something for IE...
Right now I'm at home, so no 3G for me (Edge if I even get a signal at all usually) so I can't tell if it's (opera) slower.
Will this negatively impact tethering? Haven't tried it yet, but will soon.
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Glad that did it for you. I've never tried tethering before so I'm not qualified to answer your question. Post your results when you test.

FuzzyLogic_FC said:
How fast? My phone shows 3G and using Opera I got the following from DSL reports speed test:
Seems like I'm pretty much in line with other posters speeds who show the H, no?
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Hmm, maybe it's just me, but it really seems as if 3G speeds have been getting slower for me. I did the same test and got the same speeds as you (and occasionally, it has been falling to 500-600Kbps), but this really does seem slower than before.
One may say it's my imagination, but I have noticed it while watching Youtube. I use the HTC Youtube app and I always watch in high quality. Now I'm forced to watch in low quality simply because downloading high quality videos takes far too long (as long as 15-20 minutes depending on video length). Even the low quality videos takes quite a while to load.
To a smaller extent, web surfing has also slowed down noticeably. Unfortunately, I don't visit enough data-heavy website to be accurate about this.
I've performed numerous tests (different websites, ROMs, browsers, radios, etc), but it all turned out relatively the same. I was able to achieve higher speeds in some cases, but not significantly higher. Overall, though, it seems to me that there have been a large speed drop in AT&T's 3G.

Changing MTU from 1428 to 1500 Yielding Speed Boost

I performed a cursory search and was not able to find much on this board, but feel free to point me in the right direction if I missed something.
I have always wondered why the MTU is set to 1428 in System>>Build.prop file. Knowing that my desktop computer does just fine using an MTU setting of 1500, I decided to test the impact that setting the MTU to 1500 would have on 4G LTE and Wifi speeds.
The results were surprising, but may not be repeatable for those who wish to try this. I live in Southeast Houston, which may help some of you to decide whether or not to try this. I accept no responsibility for damage to your phone, business, life or anything else if you do.
MTU 1428 (90+ Days)
4G LTE: Average 7-13 Mbps Down, Record 18 Mbps
Wifi 802.11n (Asus RT-N56U): Average 10-20 Mbps Down, Record 27 Mbps
MTU 1500 (24 Hours, Limited Data)
4G LTE: Consistent 17 Mbps Down
Wifi 802.11n (Asus RT-N56U): Consistent 13 Mbps Down
I realized a 5+ Mbps boost on 4G LTE Download speeds (Results will vary)
Standard Caution - back up your phone in case something goes wrong
Step #1 - Use Root Explorer or equivalent to create a copy of System>>Build.prop and place copy on SD Card (I use the Download folder)
Step #2 - Open the copy of the Build.prop you created and locate the default MTU entry, which should be 1428, change this entry to either 1492 (DSL) or 1500 (Cable) and save the change
Step #3 - Use edited copy of the Build.prop file to overwrite the one in System>>Build.prop
Step #4 - Reboot your phone and test your 3G/4G and Wifi speeds for improvement/degredation and repeat steps above to find optimal setting (Max=1500)

My buddy works at the Columbus Vzw building and is a 4G engineer. When I spoke to him last week he JUST mentioned the MTU as well and said its going to be changed with an OTA radio update. He said theyre always working on radio updates but whether or not they are all released is another question ha.

biglipps66 said:
My buddy works at the Columbus Vzw building and is a 4G engineer. When I spoke to him last week he JUST mentioned the MTU as well and said its going to be changed with an OTA radio update. He said theyre always working on radio updates but whether or not they are all released is another question ha.
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I forgot to mention that my 4G LTE upload speed average increased and became consistent as well. I am now seeing 8 Mbps Upload in a location that had averaged 3-5 Mbps before I changed the MTU to 1500. My Wifi is limited to 2-3 Mbps Upload, so I am not sure how my Upload speed would be on a connection with more bandwidth.

I've been running 1492 since you posted it and giving it a try out. Doesn't seem to help the tether speed, but helps the phones speed of loading pages in the browser, tapatalk to servers, and loading news much quicker.

savagebunny said:
I've been running 1492 since you posted it and giving it a try out. Doesn't seem to help the tether speed, but helps the phones speed of loading pages in the browser, tapatalk to servers, and loading news much quicker.
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Glad to hear! I have used this tweak for years on Windows computers, so it makes sense that it should work on our phones as well. My only concern was data fragmentation, but that does not seem to be an issue for me. Mileage will vary though, so improvements are not guaranteed for all.

Been using stock since day one, today just broke 60mbps here in NYC:
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Been seeing 40's and 50's on a daily basis. Never changed the MTU.
Maybe once I root the device I'll mess with it.

Yep, web browser seem to load qicker than usual, tether is no changed, speed test many times ;/ buddy, how u config that on your window pc anyway?
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davidkim99b said:
Yep, web browser seem to load qicker than usual, tether is no changed, speed test many times ;/ buddy, how u config that on your window pc anyway?
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The easiest way to do this on a Windows computer is to visit Speedguide.net and run the TCP/IP Analyzer utility (Link on Bottom-Left of site's main page), then, if needed, download the TCP/IP Optimizer. This utility is a portable app, so there is nothing to install. Just remember that a reboot is needed for changes to take effect.
Here is the manual method for setting MTU on a Windows computer:
1. Open a command line window as an Administrator (ie. Right-Click on All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt and select Run as administrator)
2. Type the command 'netsh' and wait for prompt
3. Type the command 'interface' and wait for prompt
4. Type the command 'ipv4' and wait for prompt
5. Type the command 'set subinterface "Local Area Connection" mtu=xxxx store=persistent'
6. Reboot
Hope this helps. I know a lot of Windows tweaks, including many Registry settings that are not well known. Perhaps I will put together a self-help document if there is any interest.
Here is a good starting point: http://www.speedguide.net/articles/windows-7-vista-2008-tweaks-2574 (Mods, please remove this link if it violates the TOS here)

milan03 said:
Been using stock since day one, today just broke 60mbps here in NYC:
Been seeing 40's and 50's on a daily basis. Never changed the MTU.
Maybe once I root the device I'll mess with it.
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Using the newly leaked 906 radios, my download speed jumped from 17 to 40 Mbps yesterday on 4G LTE! Upload & Wi-Fi Speeds remained unchanged for the most part.
I didn't believe it at first, so I reset the MTU to 1428, rebooted my phone and my Download speed returned to the 13-20 Mbps range. Changed the MTU back to 1500, rebooted and jumped right back to 40 Mbps.
I encourage others to try changing the MTU setting to 1500 (For those using Cable) or 1492 (For those using DSL)

stupid question here, but would this increase speeds while in a 3g area or the mtu specifically for 4g data rates?

vdChild said:
stupid question here, but would this increase speeds while in a 3g area or the mtu specifically for 4g data rates?
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MTU is not specifically tied to either 3G or 4G. In fact, this setting is used on Windows based computers all the way back to the early versions of Windows. MTU is used to optimize the connection between the host and client. If MTU is set too low, bandwidth is reduced because more packets of data are managed. If MTU is set too high, fragmentation will occur and there will usually be a need for more re-transmissions of data. As a rule, 1500 is the Maximum MTU setting for cable based internet, while 1492 is the maximum for DSL.
"A larger MTU brings greater efficiency because each packet carries more user data while protocol overheads, such as headers or underlying per-packet delays, remain fixed; the resulting higher efficiency means a slight improvement in bulk protocol throughput. A larger MTU also means processing of fewer packets for the same amount of data. In some systems, per-packet-processing can be a critical performance limitation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit (Mods, please remove this link if it violates the TOS here)

Lyondellic said:
MTU is not specifically tied to either 3G or 4G. In fact, this setting is used on Windows based computers all the way back to the early versions of Windows. MTU is used to optimize the connection between the host and client. If MTU is set too low, bandwidth is reduced because more packets of data are managed. If MTU is set too high, fragmentation will occur and there will usually be a need for more re-transmissions of data. As a rule, 1500 is the Maximum MTU setting for cable based internet, while 1492 is the maximum for DSL.
"A larger MTU brings greater efficiency because each packet carries more user data while protocol overheads, such as headers or underlying per-packet delays, remain fixed; the resulting higher efficiency means a slight improvement in bulk protocol throughput. A larger MTU also means processing of fewer packets for the same amount of data. In some systems, per-packet-processing can be a critical performance limitation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_transmission_unit (Mods, please remove this link if it violates the TOS here)
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Everything you said is correct, but just to elaborate for those that might get mixed up, MTU has *nothing* to do with windows itself nor did Microsoft create the protocol. MTU predates Windows by some years and was set up as part of the greater Internet Protocol and OSI Model by DARPA in the late 70s/early 80s.
In theory, a larger MTU is a good thing, assuming the connection can handle the larger MTU. Slower connections trying to handle a high MTU can cause a bottleneck and lead to less efficiency than greater though. When that happens, it has to slice up the data units into smaller pieces (fragmentation).
Think of it as like having to carry a stack of bricks from one end of your yard to the other. Sure, if you're strong, you can carry a ton at once, but if you're not and you try to do so, you're going to have a heck of a time getting them from point A to point B and probably end up having to split up the load, slowing yourself down as you do so.

yareally said:
Everything you said is correct, but just to elaborate for those that might get mixed up, MTU has *nothing* to do with windows itself nor did Microsoft create the protocol. MTU predates Windows by some years and was set up as part of the greater Internet Protocol and OSI Model by DARPA in the late 70s/early 80s.
In theory, a larger MTU is a good thing, assuming the connection can handle the larger MTU. Slower connections trying to handle a high MTU can cause a bottleneck and lead to less efficiency than greater though. When that happens, it has to slice up the data units into smaller pieces (fragmentation).
Think of it as like having to carry a stack of bricks from one end of your yard to the other. Sure, if you're strong, you can carry a ton at once, but if you're not and you try to do so, you're going to have a heck of a time getting them from point A to point B and probably end up having to split up the load, slowing yourself down as you do so.
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Thanks for filling in the gaps. I sometimes skim over information that requires a little more clarity, so I thank you for chiming in.

Edit: Nevermind. I changed to 1492 cause I use DSL at home so we shall see if I can get some better speeds with this change.

Mustang302LX said:
Edit: Nevermind. I changed to 1492 cause I use DSL at home so we shall see if I can get some better speeds with this change.
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Guys you're forgetting your LTE service is not DSL. If you're changing MTU which by the way is "maximum transmission unit" and have been in existence way before Windows, use 1500. LTE is a flat IP based technology, and it doesn't matter if your home (WiFi) connection is DSL, you're using Verizon's 4G LTE and that's where you're applying MTU. 1492 is used on home computers that are wired connected to a DSL modem.

milan03 said:
Guys you're forgetting your LTE service is not DSL. If you're changing MTU which by the way is "maximum transmission unit" and have been in existence way before Windows, use 1500. LTE is a flat IP based technology, and it doesn't matter if your home (WiFi) connection is DSL, you're using Verizon's 4G LTE and that's where you're applying MTU. 1492 is used on home computers that are wired connected to a DSL modem.
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I'll change it to 1500 then. Thanks.

btw I've been using stock since the launch date, and am seriously considering rooting for the first time after seeing this post. MTU can definitely help the throughput and I've been wondering for a long time if tweaks are possible on Android platform.
I know it's sounds noob (and when it comes to rooting I am) which leaked radios currently give the best data performance?
this is what I'm currently seeing on my Bolt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwRm3QMqUs
I wonder if I can get closer to that 73.6mbps maximum theoretical throughput.
Thank you.

You must live underneath a cell tower. Lol. Highest ive seen on my phone is 25 down and 10 up.
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It's NYC lol. Every corner has some kind of pico cell and it's usually fed by preexistent fiber. NYC is loaded with dark fiber.
Still trying to figure out if I should just root and flash with that latest Gingerbread RUU or should I just keep it stock. I'm just trying to get the best possible data performance, don't really care too much about the features of the ROM.

milan03 said:
Guys you're forgetting your LTE service is not DSL. If you're changing MTU which by the way is "maximum transmission unit" and have been in existence way before Windows, use 1500. LTE is a flat IP based technology, and it doesn't matter if your home (WiFi) connection is DSL, you're using Verizon's 4G LTE and that's where you're applying MTU. 1492 is used on home computers that are wired connected to a DSL modem.
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This is true for 3G/4G, but not when the phone is connected to Wi-Fi. A max MTU setting of 1492 is needed when connected to a Wi-Fi network that originates from DSL.

[TWEAK SPARK_W] How to optimize tethering for faster speeds (3G vs 1X) EASY!

The following applies only to SparkW (HTC Trophy on Verizon Wireless)!!
GSM/Euro Spark users can ignore doing this to their own phones!
In my quest to figure out why my damn phone stayed stuck in 1X mode while tethering, I may have found a solution to keep the speeds faster (which is important to me, since my tethering is my primary internet connection).
This is also part of my quest to build/find a wireless driver that gets rid of the "random" wi-fi mac address issue while still maintaining Internet Sharing.
It has to do with the OEM package HTC_8x50_OS_WIRELESS. This is the Wi-fi driver, but it may also be a driver for the radio interface of the phone.
The differences between this file on Spark_W, and Spark GSM are minimal at best. Spark GSM adds the policy to enable the wi-fi hotspot (mxipupdate_hotspotconfig_01.provxml), meanwhile the Verizon driver has mxipcold_Wireless_Spark_W.provxml and BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0589.0608.hcd.
The package ID is the same for both GSM Spark and Spark_W, {A2A5F44F-FE02-496e-8926-6EDDC8CF9B44}.. and in my cooking experience, you can straight use the GSM driver on Spark_W with no adverse effects that I can notice.. and in my custom cooked rom, I noticed that my tethering download speeds seemed much MUCH faster using the GSM driver!
So.. I wanted to figure out WHY that is.
The .rgu file between the Spark GSM and Spark_W are IDENTICAL. There are no differences what so ever! So I got to looking at what mxipcold_Wireless_Spark_W.provxml does.
Code:
<characteristic type="HKLM\Software\Widcomm\BtConfig\Platform\RadioInit">
<parm name="BRCMConfigFile" value="\Windows\BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0589.0608.hcd" datatype="string" />
Looking at this string, this seems to assign some kind of file that may have to do with radio initialization.
This overrides the default value set by the rgu, which is:
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Widcomm\BtConfig\Platform\RadioInit]
"BRCMConfigFile"="\\Windows\\BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0436.0438.hcd"
And when using the GSM Spark driver, BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0436.0438.hcd is used and tethering speed improves!
Here comes the fun part! If you want to try this faster tethering, there is no need to flash an entire rom, you simply need to open up the registry editor, navigate to HKLM\Software\Widcomm\BtConfig\Platform\RadioInit , and change the value BRCMConfigFile to BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0436.0438.hcd (setting it to BCM4329B1_002.002.023.0589.0608.hcd will change it back)! After that, save the value, reboot the phone, and va-la, tethering speed has improved!
I haven't tested this tweak with good reception to see if I can get past the "350KB/s" cap I keep hitting with tethering in great reception areas (I have pulled 900kb/s on those same spots using my mothers Galaxy Tab 7.1), so I'm not sure if this is the "secret" to unlocking this artificial speed lock or not.. but I doubt it can hurt. I've been running this for about a month, and its not like Verizon has yet to detect my tethering yet.. so... I'd like for people to run Speakeasy Speedtest both before and after trying this registry tweak, to see if anyone else is getting a huge speed bump.
In my fringe reception area, I am going from 15KB/s on 1X to 50-80KB/s on 3G!
I don't believe this should have an adverse effect on battery life when NOT using Internet Sharing, but if you're on battery while using this, the 3G speeds may suck more juice out of your battery.
I'm always charging while tethering, so this tweak really works well for me! I hope others can test this and give me feedback to see if this really helps in higher reception areas. I live out in a very rural area with low cellular usage, so anything to get faster speed is golden!
*note* For anyone wondering, I haven't downloaded any new OEM/Spark drivers/roms to try and extract their wireless driver yet to try and fix the mac address issue... I can't simply take the newest Verizon driver and add the hotspot policy in, as IS won't start. :/

Nice. Thanks for your work and glad to see you back after a few days. I don't know if I will do this as I don't use tethering that much, but good to have the option.

Well, the thing about trying it is... you can reverse it by putting back the Verizon value. I'm stuck on tethering since my other internet option is dial up for the time being.. but really I discovered this by accident trying to fix the mac address issue for the custom rom I am working on.

[Q] GT-N8013 - Wifi suddenly slow

Hello,
A couple of months ago the wifi speed on my GT-N8013 dropped to ~200KB/s. There were no changes to my wifi network not to the device as far as I am aware. I do not recall how fast the connection was prior to the drop, but it was acceptable for wifi and fast enough to stream HD movies off my NAS.
My device has never been rooted or anything, so its running stock ROM.
I left everything alone for a week or so hoping whatever conditions causing the slowness would pass, but the slowness persisited. Factory reset didn't change anything either. I messed with so many settings on my router as well (different channels, different modes, other settings DD-WRT gives you that I don't understand) to no avail. Slowness occurs when connected to other routers as well and doesn't seem to affect other devices (roommates phone and laptop had no slowness).
The wierd thing is that my phone (T-Mobile Galaxy SII, T989) started doing the same thing a while back; used to stream my HD movies to my phone until wifi speeds dropped to ~200KB/s. At first I just wrote it off as my phone being old and having had too many ROMs and radios flashed, but then the same thing happened to my much newer, unrooted, stock tablet.
Has anyone ever seen or heard of anything like this. or have any ideas on what could be causing it or how to fix it?
Thanks for any help!

wifi
Do you have a limitation of space at your provider (flatrate?) and it is actually setted down to "3g" speed?
Perhaps something is wrong with your provider? What shows the monthly receipts?
Maybe you have installed to much apps with internet connection. Perhaps they try to synchronize them with the server every second?
What shows the diagramm of using network in the settings window of your tablet?
(Sorry for my hobbling english)

Dr.Sahnebacke said:
Do you have a limitation of space at your provider (flatrate?) and it is actually setted down to "3g" speed?
Perhaps something is wrong with your provider? What shows the monthly receipts?
Maybe you have installed to much apps with internet connection. Perhaps they try to synchronize them with the server every second?
What shows the diagramm of using network in the settings window of your tablet?
(Sorry for my hobbling english)
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Thanks for the reply!
This is using wifi, not any mobile internet connection. Also, most of what I'm doing involves copying and streaming files over my LAN, so my internet speeds are irrelevant.
As far as apps using background data, there shouldn't be enough of those after a factory reset to have such an effect. Also, I wouldn't think they'd have such a consistant effect (almost always around 200KB/s).

other members in lan?
entith said:
Thanks for the reply!
This is using wifi, not any mobile internet connection. Also, most of what I'm doing involves copying and streaming files over my LAN, so my internet speeds are irrelevant.
As far as apps using background data, there shouldn't be enough of those after a factory reset to have such an effect. Also, I wouldn't think they'd have such a consistant effect (almost always around 200KB/s).
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Perhaps other members in your Wlan eat your bytes? You could try to change the channel in the wlan-modem. Control it with the app "Wifi analyzer". It gives a good overview.
Trojans? Half mounted cables?

phone speed & tether speed

hello I have been studying this issue for about a couple of weeks & still can't find no answer to this. The speed test on my phone you can see is pretty fast, BUT when I use T-Mobile hotspot tether why is it slower then back in the AOL dail up days 56K. I don't know what can I do that can at least give my hotspot tether a minimum of 2Mbps. Can anybody help me out with this issue appreviate it.

There are a lot of different things that could cause this. First of all you need to know that every provider recognize when you are doing a speedtest and they give the maximum that is available only for good test results. That doesnt mean that you could access the internet with that speed. Second, the speed of the wifi connection between your phone and pc could be very bad espacialy when you place your phone very close to the pc, for a good wifi connection it should be minimum 1m distance. And there are a lot of other things that could impact the speed like apps using internet on your phone or background updates on pc or a hundred other things. Nobody can tell you for sure whats causing this, you just can play around with it for a while place it on different postitions or deactivate apps and so on and so on...

saturday_night said:
There are a lot of different things that could cause this. First of all you need to know that every provider recognize when you are doing a speedtest and they give the maximum that is available only for good test results. That doesnt mean that you could access the internet with that speed. Second, the speed of the wifi connection between your phone and pc could be very bad espacialy when you place your phone very close to the pc, for a good wifi connection it should be minimum 1m distance. And there are a lot of other things that could impact the speed like apps using internet on your phone or background updates on pc or a hundred other things. Nobody can tell you for sure whats causing this, you just can play around with it for a while place it on different postitions or deactivate apps and so on and so on...
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Thanks for the food for thought. Correct me if im wrong the speeds that you do in speedtest results are the physical speed you would be using from your phone internet right or it would be a very lengthy lag when streaming videos & downloading apps. At 22 mbps a app that is 21mb would download just about soon as you click it. Sohow would these speedtest results not be the physical testing usage. I thought it was other 3rd party apps to bypass the throttling. I am gonna see if I can fumble somewhere in the internal advance settings. Cause its something Tmobile have if i purchase the unlimjted tether i heard i get the full bandwidth speed & thats the goal I do want to work on to achieve.