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[Q] Wifi Connection Problem

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I did a search and found nothing.
I can connect with my Gtablet at home to my wireless system with no problem. Anytime I travel and take the device I cannot get connected to the hotel wireless.
Any ideas.
Thanks.

Skempo said:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I did a search and found nothing.
I can connect with my Gtablet at home to my wireless system with no problem. Anytime I travel and take the device I cannot get connected to the hotel wireless.
Any ideas.
Thanks.
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I am having the same problem with TNT Lite. Connect-Disconnect-Connect-Disconnect. At home I forced it to use a fixed ip address and that seemed to help but still my connectivity is spotty. I have found that there seems to be some issue with a Tegra driver but how to fix it remains unknown. I would guess that the developer of the ROM< would have to patch it but I'm kind of new to this stuff. Hopefully someone that knows how to fix the wireless will read this and post an answer.

Did you use the browser?
You may have tried this but often public wifis/hotels have an acknowledgement screen that comes up in a web browser before you can use the wifi. Once their terms and conditions are accepted, then you can use the wifi for any other purposes (including browsers). I have several browsers loaded and Ihave found that sometimes I need to try several before getting to the proper screen and get wifi access. Other than that, I have had no real issues connecting to wifi outside of my home (other than not knowing the password that is).

Which browsers do you have loaded, and which on gives you the best result for connection?

Browsers
Skempo said:
Which browsers do you have loaded, and which on gives you the best result for connection?
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Oh just about all of them loaded: Stock (Vegan Tab b5.1.1), Skyfire, Dolphin, Opera Mini, Miren. I find that I end up using Skyfire perhaps the most but it will really depend on the website. My son is a DJ at his college radio station and they transmit in swf format. Only one of the browsers will play the stream (I think it is Skyfire). I just keep plugging away until one works or I get frustrated and give up. I generally try and not do the mobile browsing if the browser has an option for desktop setting.
Hope that helps somewhat.

More wireless data
I am testing in two spots. At home, my netgear router using wpa/wpa2 psk and it has been wonky. Using a fixed ip seemed to help but still it would go intermittent. At work, also a netgear with wpa/wpa2 psk and it just connects and disconnects. In both instances, I am within ten feet of the router and I absolutely know the key. Curiously, at work in another part of the building is a restaurant with an open wifi and it connects right up to that without an issue. My guess is that it has something to do with the WPA encryption but what? Any thoughts or experiments to try?

[Q] Anyone use Splashtop?

I need help. I was talking to a guy that claimed to be a developer of Splashtop, which allows you to run your laptop remotely from your tablet. The app was initially created for iphone/ipad, but is available in the Android market. I was so impressed with the app and how fast and seamless it runs your laptop programs that I purchased without question. Well I have a question: how do you connect to it remotely while away from home? I have turned on laptop, turned off auto shut down, and turned on splashtop on the pc. Everytime I have tried to connect away from home I get an "out of reach" message. I have been as little as 5 miles away. If anyone out there has knowledge of what I may be doing wrong please let me know. The guy told me this should work from anywhere just as long as my computer is turned on and running splashtop.
Thanks!!

I use it on my xoom, and it works great, but I haven't tried using it away from home. Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I want to find out too.

Visual360 said:
I use it on my xoom, and it works great, but I haven't tried using it away from home. Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I want to find out too.
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Yes, great at home, but I can just use my laptop. If I can get it to actually work when I am away from home, then it makes my Xoom THE BEST thing to have! I get so tired of carrying my laptop around, this would help.

stparker38 said:
Yes, great at home, but I can just use my laptop. If I can get it to actually work when I am away from home, then it makes my Xoom THE BEST thing to have! I get so tired of carrying my laptop around, this would help.
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I'm actually wondering this also. Does anyone have any insight?
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Yeah i got the splashtop and to make it work outside your home network, you must do port forwarding.
i uninstalled it because now, i keep getting drop connections and if i reconnect, it gives me error saying it is already being accessed by another device. this was both on my home network and accessing it from the outside. it was great but not anymore.
sorry for the rant.

Hmm
For the price it's probably not as good as some of it's competitors, which are closer to 5x the price of this. I would attribute it's lack of quality to the problems such as devices being already connected etc.
As for distance, it makes no difference, the most important thing to do is make sure that if you have a router, it must have the necessary ports forwarded to the computer you want to connect to.
Personally I try to avoid remote desktop and instead try make everything i might want from home accessible via web-apps or various servers.

stparker38 said:
I need help. I was talking to a guy that claimed to be a developer of Splashtop, which allows you to run your laptop remotely from your tablet. The app was initially created for iphone/ipad, but is available in the Android market. I was so impressed with the app and how fast and seamless it runs your laptop programs that I purchased without question. Well I have a question: how do you connect to it remotely while away from home? I have turned on laptop, turned off auto shut down, and turned on splashtop on the pc. Everytime I have tried to connect away from home I get an "out of reach" message. I have been as little as 5 miles away. If anyone out there has knowledge of what I may be doing wrong please let me know. The guy told me this should work from anywhere just as long as my computer is turned on and running splashtop.
Thanks!!
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I don't have the app so I'm just giving some general comments:
Im assuming it works over wifi?
1) Maybe you need to enter the ip address of your home and name a port? then get the router to port forward to your laptop?
2) If it works over wifi, then if your router has the option set up a VPN. then connect to it when ur away from home - then its exactly as if ur xoom is connected to the local network itself

dro1dfan said:
I don't have the app so I'm just giving some general comments:
Im assuming it works over wifi?
1) Maybe you need to enter the ip address of your home and name a port? then get the router to port forward to your laptop?
2) If it works over wifi your router has the option set up a VPN. then connect to it when ur away from home - then its exactly as if ur xoom is connected to the local network itself
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Port forwarding is a new concept to me, so not sure how to do it, but you guys have given me a new thing to Google. Also, I did have my internet run through a router, but I disconnected it because I on have my home internet through ATT Uverse and didn't have anything that really needed to run through it. If you have some quick directions for me, then I will be grateful!

Teamviewer
Teamviewer does it away from home. Theres no sound and fluid video tho

I assume this is similar to Wyse Pocket, and i have never had issues connecting via 3G. Is this a better app?

stparker38 said:
Port forwarding is a new concept to me, so not sure how to do it, but you guys have given me a new thing to Google. Also, I did have my internet run through a router, but I disconnected it because I on have my home internet through ATT Uverse and didn't have anything that really needed to run through it. If you have some quick directions for me, then I will be grateful!
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well your router gets its internet then shares it via with the rest of your computers.
Port forwarding takes all the data from a specific port and forwards it to a specific device.
to start you have to assign ur computer a static ip address (again through your router) then forward all data to it. sorry i cant be more precise but the procedure varies between routers. I have never used the ATT Uverse. Honestly the best thing to do is have a browse thorugh ur manual or google for a guide
try this site to see if your model is listed. if not choose a similar model and try to do similar steps
http://portforward.com/

btucker2003 said:
I assume this is similar to Wyse Pocket, and i have never had issues connecting via 3G. Is this a better app?
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These apps were made with very different goals in mind...
I use both of these apps for what I believe they were designed for and I'm happy with both. The WYSE PocketCloud app supports RDP / VNC connections but SplashTop doesn't. It's not even really designed for WAN access but rather just LAN access. Yes, unlike PocketCloud you'll need to use port forwarding to use it in the likely unsupported WAN configuration.
SplashTop runs beautifully on my LAN but I don't expect it to work outside those parameters. I think SplashTop has far superior frame rate / audio sync for watching Videos (with / without audio). Is it the optimized support for the Tegra 2? I don't know, but it works and works well. It lets me watch Hulu, NetFlix, etc with rarely a hiccup. PocketCloud can't touch that ATM.
Even though PocketCloud's framerate and audio sync are MUCH worse by comparison to SplashTop making it unusable (even when on my LAN connected by WiFi) for the purpose of watching video through it, I don't begrudge it since I don't believe that's what it's for. It has an awesome UI (I prefer it somewhat over SplashTop's) and works very well over RDP. When the Terminal Services update emerges from closed beta, it will be even more awesome.
These apps probably shouldn't even be compared as they are meant to do different things, different ways. Each works for what they were designed for. Neither is perfect. In my case, both were very easy to setup. Any difficulties I had were caused by my own firewall setup. Neither were expensive IMO.

Has anyone figured out how to connect using mycloud when you are away from home? I've tried port forwarding and the portchecker from portforward.com verifies that my ports are open and are forwarded properly but I still can't seem to connect using my modem's WAN ip.
My modem/router model is smc d3gn and I am connecting directly to it with my computer.
I've also tried using the modem's built in vpn function and I can connect to the vpn (accessing the router setup page from my tablet shows me logged in with a pptp ip so I know that I'm connected but splashtop still refuses to connect.)
Hope someone can figure this out soon... I've tried the experimental locator thing using my gmail account but I'm not sure if it does anything.

Ad-Hoc WiFi Issues

Hi everyone,
I'm having issues with ad-hoc wifi connections on my transformer. Unlike most other people, I'm not trying to tether to a phone, I'm trying to connect with a computer so I can achieve a lower latency when I'm using some android pro audio control apps.
The problem is that the transformer sees the ad-hoc network, but cannot connect it (can't get an IP). I tried all different forms of security, including no security. Nothing works.
I'm running stock 8.6.5.21, rooted. No custom kernels or custom ROMs. It's a B60 pad, so it was rooted via nvflash.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

You need to either configure a DHCP server on your computer so that your TF101 is allocated an IP, or you need to configure a static IP on your TF101 so that it can talk to the computer.

a.mcdear said:
You need to either configure a DHCP server on your computer so that your TF101 is allocated an IP, or you need to configure a static IP on your TF101 so that it can talk to the computer.
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Thanks for the answer, but doesn't that get done automatically by Windows 7? If not, that seems kind of stupid...

I can confirm that it is not a windows 7 issue. My ipod touch connects to my computer-based ad-hoc network just fine, without any IP configuration or extra software. My pad still refuses to. Help?
Thanks!

I had the same issues at the beginning. I switched kernels and roms but none of them worked out of the box with ad-hoc network on win7. But windows 7 gives you the possibility (except starter edition) to set up a virtual router which works perfectly for me (I don't know if it is a sign of small latency that I was able to use splashtop with less than 1 second offset...). Just google the term "virtual router" and you will find a pretty nice open source tool. An alternative would be connectify, but this always made my laptop fan scream after a while.

Thanks, I'll check it out and report back.

Wi-Fi Sync/Copy

Well, my TF700 works decently aside from this issue:
My Wi-Fi will pretty much drop instantly when I attempt to airsync/airdroid copy something over to the TF700. Anybody else have this issue?

Anybody able to use airsync/airdroid successfully?

slntdth93 said:
Anybody able to use airsync/airdroid successfully?
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i'm using wifi file transfer pro and i get about 3-5MB/s when sitting right next to the router. the speed often drops when transferring files and it even stalls and then soon afterwards to goes a higher speed again. no idea if this problem is because of wifi file transfer or the tablet I/O lags which is really an issue (even with .26 firmware), i can't watch a movie when transferring some new movies via wifi to the tablet..
i had the "completely dropping wifi" issue only once but i think it was because of bad signal.

[Solved] Android to Android File Transfers via WiFi

I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place for this question. Its not necessarily a Nexus 5 spetcific question as it also involves an Asus TF300T.
I'm currently in a hotel with not only spotty WiFi coverage but also really awful throughput.
I have about 8GB of data I want to transfer to my Asus TF300T running 4.2.1.
I started with airdroid then WiFi File Transfer but it seems the WiFi network blocks access between devices; well at least on ports 1234, 4567 and 8888.
I then tried WiFi Direct but it looks like they (Asus) removed that feature in the last upgrade. Boo.
Finally the TF300T has a keyboard dock with a USB port but when I plug in the N5 (either in MTP or PTP) the TF300T doesn't 'see' the storage.
Uploading to Dropbox from the N5 then downloading to the TF300T would take several days at this rate. If I fellback on LTE, I would eat through the rest of my data plan and the month is young!
There are other applications out there but they're sketchy or questionable at best, and I don't want to load those types of applications on my rooted devices, hence why I'm reaching out to the community for advice / suggestions.
Thanks all

Phylum said:
I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place for this question. Its not necessarily a Nexus 5 spetcific question as it also involves an Asus TF300T.
I'm currently in a hotel with not only spotty WiFi coverage but also really awful throughput.
I have about 8GB of data I want to transfer to my Asus TF300T running 4.2.1.
I started with airdroid then WiFi File Transfer but it seems the WiFi network blocks access between devices; well at least on ports 1234, 4567 and 8888.
I then tried WiFi Direct but it looks like they (Asus) removed that feature in the last upgrade. Boo.
Finally the TF300T has a keyboard dock with a USB port but when I plug in the N5 (either in MTP or PTP) the TF300T doesn't 'see' the storage.
Uploading to Dropbox from the N5 then downloading to the TF300T would take several days at this rate. If I fellback on LTE, I would eat through the rest of my data plan and the month is young!
There are other applications out there but they're sketchy or questionable at best, and I don't want to load those types of applications on my rooted devices, hence why I'm reaching out to the community for advice / suggestions.
Thanks all
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Install this and run on host device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xeustechnologies.android.kws
with target device open the http://IP.IP.IP.IP and proceed to download the file it should be really fast since its localhost

Fast file transfer
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To avoid the connection problems, create a hotspot on your nexus 5 and connect the tablet to it (when i do this i leave mobile data off just in case, so the tablet and phone will simply be in a LAN together), then use whatever program youd like to transfer through LAN. For example ES file manager has a built in LAN transfer function and ive gotten speeds up to 2mb per second with the nexus as the host sending the file.

markdapimp said:
Install this and run on host device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xeustechnologies.android.kws
with target device open the http://IP.IP.IP.IP and proceed to download the file it should be really fast since its localhost
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WiFi File Transfer seems to do the exact same thing.
kWS seems to use port 8080 by default and that doesn't work. I've tried other ports with no luck.
We're on the same subnet but neither device can ping the other so I guess they've done a good job at setting it up so that machies cannot communicate with each other?

bower95 said:
To avoid the connection problems, create a hotspot on your nexus 5 and connect the tablet to it (when i do this i leave mobile data off just in case, so the tablet and phone will simply be in a LAN together), then use whatever program youd like to transfer through LAN. For example ES file manager has a built in LAN transfer function and ive gotten speeds up to 2mb per second with the nexus as the host sending the file.
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Yeah, that sounds like a winner right there. I'll try and update with my findings.
Thanks!

Phylum said:
WiFi File Transfer seems to do the exact same thing.
kWS seems to use port 8080 by default and that doesn't work. I've tried other ports with no luck.
We're on the same subnet but neither device can ping the other so I guess they've done a good job at setting it up so that machies cannot communicate with each other?
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Must be a firewall correct try another port such as UDP port 53 (DNS) or TCP port 22 or 21 (SSH) or try 80 (HTTP) usually HTTP wont be blocked

Mobile Hotspot Winner
Setting up a mobile hotspot did the trick! I was able to use all the apps but file transfers never finished. (most of the files are a few hundred megs)
I'll just wait until I get to a better location or try again when I have a bit more time.
I'll also try using common ports like 53 and 22, 23 etc to see if that helps while on this network.
Thanks all for your advice on this.

This ( https://play.google.com/store/search?q=superbeam&c=apps ) is the best IMHO.
Works with phone <-> phone and phone <-> PC without problems, the UI is great and easy to use