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Horrible data speeds

Has anyone experienced horrible data speeds with the G2X. My nexus s right next to it pulls a consistent 2-3 megs down while the g2x is only pulling 75kbps, i've tried a factory reset and it hasn't helped at all.

Im having the same problem mine gets 1.5 mbs download less than my 3g vibrant sitting right next too it I called t-mobile and they are sending a new g2x
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In central New Jersey, my download speeds vary between 2.5Mb/s and 7Mb/s. Upload is a fairly constant 1.7Mb/s. Ping is usually in the 40-50ms range.

These are not scientific tests in the least bit - in order to compare, having the phones sitting right next to each other does nothing. You need to check that they are connecting to the same tower as well.
Grab Open Signal from the market and click the maps option on both phones. I'd wager you're connecting to different towers between the phones.

Mine stays on 2G for about 90% of the time, but when it does rarely get 4G, it gets as high as 5.5Mb/s. On 2G, I get about 140kb/s. It never registers 3G for whatever reason.
(I say 90%/10% while staying in the same place for long periods of time where my G1 was always getting 3G or registering (not using, of course) H (4G?).)

Mine was showing umts 4G but really struggling to surf this forums or to run a speed test. Wouldn't find the speed test servers. I turn 2G on and I'm surfing this forum faster than when I had the 4G icon.
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moshe22 said:
Mine was showing umts 4G but really struggling to surf this forums or to run a speed test. Wouldn't find the speed test servers. I turn 2G on and I'm surfing this forum faster than when I had the 4G icon.
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What could be causing this?
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I did a side-by-side speed test comparison of my G2 and G2X in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043716
Both phones were configured identically; same apps, widgets, and settings. The G2X is slower. One of the pro reviews done in SFO made the same observation - the G2X was about 30-40% slower than the G2. As you'll see by the replies in the original thread, most people took the "it's fast enough" position. I think a new flagship phone with state-of-the-art hardware should perform as well as a year-old phone with a 800mhz processor. The good news is it can probably be fixed with software updates so we should be OK in the long run. Oh well.

EtherealRemnant said:
These are not scientific tests in the least bit - in order to compare, having the phones sitting right next to each other does nothing. You need to check that they are connecting to the same tower as well.
Grab Open Signal from the market and click the maps option on both phones. I'd wager you're connecting to different towers between the phones.
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I live in a city where there aren't a lot of towers or heavy traffic on T-Mobile's data network which is why my G2 can pull 10MB down easily. The ISP used by speedtest is less than 50 miles away from me and is Microsoft corporate's disaster recovery provider. From a network congestion, conflict, and latency perspective I probably have one of the purest comparative environments possible. Across multiple days and multiple times of day, the G2X is consistently 30-40% slower than my identically configured G2. A pro tester reached the same conclusion. You may not want to accept it, but the G2X is slower (at least against the G2).

BarryH_GEG said:
I did a side-by-side speed test comparison of my G2 and G2X in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1043716
Both phones were configured identically; same apps, widgets, and settings. The G2X is slower. One of the pro reviews done in SFO made the same observation - the G2X was about 30-40% slower than the G2. As you'll see by the replies in the original thread, most people took the "it's fast enough" position. I think a new flagship phone with state-of-the-art hardware should perform as well as a year-old phone with a 800mhz processor. The good news is it can probably be fixed with software updates so we should be OK in the long run. Oh well.
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Awesome findings. Should be fixed with a software update.
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The g2 is 8 months old not 1 year
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[Q] WIFI speed on G2x

Does anyone have trouble with wifi speed on their G2x? I have been averaging 32mb to 60mb (hard line) on my PC, yet I have been having trouble getting over 1mb (wifi) on the phone. When connected the phone says excellent connection and lists the link speed as 65mb, but when I test it reads about 1mb. It doesn't seem to be running all that quickly when on wifi either. I tried turning mobile data off in case their was some confusion with the 4g and wifi displaying at the same time, but it didn't seem to help.
Same issue with the wife's phone. I rebooted the router and phones and didn't seem to help.

Bhatch said:
Does anyone have trouble with wifi speed on their G2x? I have been averaging 32mb to 60mb (hard line) on my PC, yet I have been having trouble getting over 1mb (wifi) on the phone. When connected the phone says excellent connection and lists the link speed as 65mb, but when I test it reads about 1mb. It doesn't seem to be running all that quickly when on wifi either. I tried turning mobile data off in case their was some confusion with the 4g and wifi displaying at the same time, but it didn't seem to help.
Same issue with the wife's phone. I rebooted the router and phones and didn't seem to help.
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You have 4G and Wifi displayed on the taskbar at the same time? That is odd. Are you runing a custom rom? If I turn on Wifi it shows wifi and the 4G is replaced by the Wifi symbol.

WiFi speeds
I often get near 20Mb/sec from WiFi on my G2X through my 20Gb/sec FIOS connection and the FIOS wireless router. (No SIM card in the phone; haven't tried it with a SIM card). That compares to no more than 6Mb/sec at the same location from my Nexus One and MyTouch 4g.

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You have 4G and Wifi displayed on the taskbar at the same time? That is odd. Are you runing a custom rom? If I turn on Wifi it shows wifi and the 4G is replaced by the Wifi symbol.
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Stock everything.
Yeah I had it happen quite a bit on froyo and it stopped for a bit on GB. Now it has started to run them both at the same time again.
I believe others have had this same issue.

I am always getting about 20 to 25 mb/s on my 50mb/s Comcast line. For a phone, that is more than enough. At that point your going to have bottle necks from the hardware.
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I will average 3mb short of what my actual connections so hardline I get on my computer about 17mb down and on my G2X I get about 14-15mb down, but I have a ****ty wireless router... I'm fine with it lol
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Try force stopping Market or T-Mobile My Account app. I noticed when I was running stock that when 4G and Wifi were both displayed in my status bar, killing those apps would make the 4G icon go away.
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Nexus S 4G; 3G uncap ideas?

Hey guys, I came from the Epic 4G, and with 6 months now into my Nexus S 4G, I've noticed minimal topics covering ideas to maximize data speeds. Any devs that might be willing to throw some sources to the public here to help others like me get into data speed configurations, it would be much appreciated if possible.
(Average data speed in Oklahoma around here for 3G is .5-.8Mbps DL and .4-.5Mbps UL) so you can see why uncapped data speeds is important around here.
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Isspooh said:
Hey guys, I came from the Epic 4G, and with 6 months now into my Nexus S 4G, I've noticed minimal topics covering ideas to maximize data speeds. Any devs that might be willing to throw some sources to the public here to help others like me get into data speed configurations, it would be much appreciated if possible.
(Average data speed in Oklahoma around here for 3G is .5-.8Mbps DL and .4-.5Mbps UL) so you can see why uncapped data speeds is important around here.
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in the market search for 3g/4g optimizer , its free and does what your asking for, but setting it to maximum will use alot of battery power.

djkdawg said:
in the market search for 3g/4g optimizer , its free and does what your asking for, but setting it to maximum will use alot of battery power.
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LoL a magical app!!!!! /fail
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The phone doesn't implement any kind of cap. The slow speeds you are experiencing are a product of Sprint's largely overloaded network.

VZ throttling certain apps?

I live in the southeast and use WiFi tether on my phone, unlimited data plan, only 6Gb this month thus far. From this location I have a Slingbox setup on a 40mb/5mb cable connection and a computer with FTP setup.
Currently I am in Hawaii with a strong 4g connection at all times and...
When I try to stream my Slingbox onto my tablet I can only get 100kbit/s, bad quality. When I download a file to my phone from FTP, it starts at 300k/s and slows to 100k/s very slowly and consistently. However when I download file from Play Store I get 800-1.5Mb/s. When I stream from ESPN I get high quality as well. The internet speed test in Hawaii is very very fast. I remote logged in to my home computer w/ the cable connection and noted no slowdown there.
Based on the current threads about VZ's monitoring of packets, could VZ be throttling my apps from this location? I'm sure data from this location costs them more than stateside.
Its the strangest thing and I can't figure it out. Any ideas?
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Use VPN and see if you get full speed.

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I've noticed tethering speeds on my device is much slower. A speed test told me I was getting 30+mb down but when I let my wife tether with her 3g phone to mine and run a speed test, she's only do 1.5 mb down. Didn't matter what app I used, built in, foxfi or wireless tether.
A Google search at the time resulted in few discussions. Hadnt looked at it sense. I would love a solution as well.
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ilogik said:
Use VPN and see if you get full speed.
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I will try this next chance I get, great idea.
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[Q] Nexus 5 WIFI Speed Tests (Sky Broadband & Kitkat 4.4.2)

Hello Folks,
I am having issues with my WIFI on my home broadband router using my new Nexus 5 phone.
When I run a speed test using the Ookla App, I regularly get speeds of around 14 Mbps which is expected and is ample for my usage.
However, regularly this will drop down to around 1 Mbps and as expected many steaming application run slow i.e. Netflix, Youtube etc.
When I carry out speed test on other devices (Nexus 7 and Laptop) the speed is showing 14 Mbps. Therefore I have isolated the issue to my Nexus 5 device.
I have discovered when I do a soft reset on my router by logging into the router’s settings and applying a channel it will shoot my speed back up to 14 Mbps on the Nexus 5.
However, I need to do this three/four times a night to keep my speeds up, so I am looking for a more permanent fix.
Does anyone know a reason why this would be happening? Could it be an app, nexus 5 wifi settings or anything else?
I have spoken to my service provider and because my router is receiving and transmitting a good signal and broadband speed they have advised that the issue lies specifically with the Nexus 5 device.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Kyle

turn off your mobile data, turn off/on your WiFi on your phone

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turn off your mobile data, turn off/on your WiFi on your phone
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Ok - I will try this out.
This has got me thinking - I suspect I'm actually loosing WIFI internet connectivity altogether and the 1 Mps speeds tests are actually returning my mobile data speeds.
I will review this tonight when I return home and report back.

You using the Sky Hub or the older Netgear/Sagem router? I had the Hub but got shot of it and bought an Asus DSL-N55U and it's all been good since then (I had issues with my laptop losing IP with the Sky Hub)

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When side-by-side and testing one after the other on Virgin B/B, my Nexus 7 achieves in the region of 4x the speeds of the N5, (44mb/s vs 9mb/s). Even after resetting. Does anyone know whether the wifi radio is a lower spec in the N5?

iku04108 said:
Ok - I will try this out.
This has got me thinking - I suspect I'm actually loosing WIFI internet connectivity altogether and the 1 Mps speeds tests are actually returning my mobile data speeds.
I will review this tonight when I return home and report back.
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This could be the same power saving issue that has been present on the nexus 4 in the past. It was in the WiFi driver. When your speed slows to a crawl. Check the connection info on your phone (see attached image)
When I performed this test I had the nexus 4 and htc one x sat side by side. The nexus showed a link speed of 1mb and one x showed 150mb.
The image is slower because I'm outside at the minute.
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Folks,
So as an update:
Tried a few resets etc. No luck.
The router is a Sagem provided by Sky.
I turned off mobile data and I was still getting the 1 Mbps result - so its a drop in speed rather than a full connectivity loss.
Alex - I will have a look at connection info when I experience the drops. Nice idea and I can compare to the Nexus 7.
So...
What about the Nexus 5 having a 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac?
The router is compatible with g / n but not ac. I also cant get the 5 GHz band.
I know the Nexus 7 does not have AC, this could be a good indicator.
Kyle

You have to turn mobile data off as soon as you connect to wifi. Obviously this is a pain. There is a tasker workaround which works great, and does this for you. Will post a link to the thread.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514501
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iku04108 said:
Folks,
So as an update:
Tried a few resets etc. No luck.
The router is a Sagem provided by Sky.
I turned off mobile data and I was still getting the 1 Mbps result - so its a drop in speed rather than a full connectivity loss.
Alex - I will have a look at connection info when I experience the drops. Nice idea and I can compare to the Nexus 7.
So...
What about the Nexus 5 having a 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac?
The router is compatible with g / n but not ac. I also cant get the 5 GHz band.
I know the Nexus 7 does not have AC, this could be a good indicator.
Kyle
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Something else you could try, which I do by default with any router, is to set static IPs to all devices using your network, e.g. 192.168.1.2 is always my laptop, .3 is my phone, .4 is my Sky+ HD box, etc. Guest devices can pick up a random one via DHCP but if all other devices have a static IP then it should reduce the issue (hopefully)

t2002 said:
You have to turn mobile data off as soon as you connect to wifi. Obviously this is a pain. There is a tasker workaround which works great, and does this for you. Will post a link to the thread.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514501
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Folks,
Let me update you.
I turned off mobile data and WiFi. Then I reactivated WiFi only.
12 hours later and my connection has not dropped.
I would call this solved but its a pain to need to do this.
Kyle

It appears that the N5 doesn't work well on the 5 GHz band: the speed can fluctuate between 57 to 0.2 Mbps, several times, within a period of a couple of minutes. Sometimes, it even drops the connection. On 2.4, on the other hand, it's smooth sailing at consistent speeds of around 40 Mps.
EDIT: Even faster now.
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