Have the recommended APN settings from three. Im back in the US, have service with plenty of bars and run the speed test app and get 3mbps down and 1mbps up. My pages load fast enough on my gs6 when browsing yet when I attempt to download any kind or file.. It slows to w hault. I can't steam music within Google music or any other apps...its like I'm getting fake Internet speeds. Then I try running speed test from chrome and get same 2.5-3mbps. Any ideas? Its like apps are being throttled. I have unlimited data and am at the beginning of my cycle with three, so there isn't an account issue on anything. Any APN settings to get around this or has anyone heard or had similar issues?/thx
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I have tried both EasyTether and PdaNet to tether the thunderbolt. When I tether using the hotspot or tether using the "internet connection " mode and run a speedtest.net I get awesome results. When I tether using PdaNet or EasyTether I get what looks like 3g speeds at best. I have the free hotspot and tethering till May 15th but I will be cancelling that and moving to one of the two apps. Any Ideas?
ps- Yes, the signal is full bars 4g LTE. I even went as far as using lte on/off app to force 4g lte only.
I would email the app developer.
Maybe it needs further coding to utilise 4g
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on the phone i get 30mb down, 2mb up. on easy tethered laptop, from same server i get 8mb down, 4mb up.
used speakeasy.net to run tests.
xeene said:
on the phone i get 30mb down, 2mb up. on easy tethered laptop, from same server i get 8mb down, 4mb up.
used speakeasy.net to run tests.
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I think a lot of apps arent working with LTE. Opera is another one. That wont get any higher than 1.5 on LTE.
It's probably a combination of two things when using a non-root tether app:
1) The speed of the Android app itself.
2) The speed of your computer. Such apps push data through the adb interface, so there's an amount of software processing going on in the background. Try popping up a task manager (eg., Windows Task Manager) while performing a fast transfer and check to see if a process is consuming more CPU during the speedtest. If the CPU% is high for the duration of the transfer, your throughput is likely limited by your computer.
It's certainly possible to hit 4g LTE speeds with non-root tether apps, as someone has recently posted (anywhere from 14mbps to 28mbps for his setup, depending on the app).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153780
My data speed for my atrix2 MB865 is so freaking slow! When i used the app speedtest to test my speed I only got 22kbps!! Can u guys imagine how frustrated I am when I want to browse the internet or loading the flipboard app
But I realize when I disabled the data then enable it again,the data speed is fast and I can download app from the market quickly,but when the signal icon turns blue the data speed got slow again all of a sudden. I don't understand why
The signal indicates I got 4G but the download speed is very slow! Someone else got the same problem?
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My data speed for my atrix2 MB865 is so freaking slow! When i used the app speedtest to test my speed I only got 22kbps!! Can u guys imagine how frustrated I am when I want to browse the internet or loading the flipboard app
But I realize when I disabled the data then enable it again,the data speed is fast and I can download app from the market quickly,but when the signal icon turns blue the data speed got slow again all of a sudden. I don't understand why
The signal indicates I got 4G but the download speed is very slow! Someone else got the same problem?
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Do you have:
(1) "data delivery" box ticked to enable data delivery over mobile network in settings>battery & data manager>data delivery
(2) do you have the "data saver" box un-ticked?
The second thing is probably what's causing you grief if the box IS ticked, so if that is the case you need to un-tick it and you're troubles should be over!
I'd start with checking these. As far as the blue vs. white icons for 4G -this just shows if (when white) network isn't synced or connected with Google servers and (when blue) it IS connected.
Since yesterday I've been tethered and torrenting using betternet desktop version and the default user agent add-on for Firefox. This "No Root" combo is working perfectly and I'm still tethered and downloading the same three files now. Unfortunately my download speeds are in the single digits, way down from the 200+ download speed I was getting last night for my measly 3 torrents. Is there any way to change this? I have Tmo's unlimited data plan.
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...
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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.
Hey Guys.
I got my pixel yesterday and it was already running the latest Android 11. I installed the October patch too.
The issue I am facing is, the wifi download speeds are poor.
For example speeds I see on speedtest dot net app :
On a 2.4ghz network
Download : ~20Mbps
Upload : ~60Mbps
On a 5ghz network
Download : ~25Mbps
Upload : ~100Mbps
I can confirm this is not an issue with my wifi because no other phones at home ( iphone SE and a samsung S10) face this issue. I get download speeds of 70 and 180Mbps on a 2.4ghz and 5ghz respectively
Rebooted router.
Rebooted pixel.
Restored pixel to factory defaults.
Tried with/without phone case.
I still have poor download speeds on pixel 4a.
Any suggestions or if anyone else facing the same issue?
The issue was with speedtest app. Downloaded other apps that show speeds correctly.
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Hey Guys.
I got my pixel yesterday and it was already running the latest Android 11. I installed the October patch too.
The issue I am facing is, the wifi download speeds are poor.
For example speeds I see on speedtest dot net app :
On a 2.4ghz network
Download : ~20Mbps
Upload : ~60Mbps
On a 5ghz network
Download : ~25Mbps
Upload : ~100Mbps
I can confirm this is not an issue with my wifi because no other phones at home ( iphone SE and a samsung S10) face this issue. I get download speeds of 70 and 180Mbps on a 2.4ghz and 5ghz respectively
Rebooted router.
Rebooted pixel.
Restored pixel to factory defaults.
Tried with/without phone case.
I still have poor download speeds on pixel 4a.
Any suggestions or if anyone else facing the same issue?
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i typed speedtest dot net app into google and got the ookla one. i waded past pages of requests for location sharing and the like and eventually found the speed test page. I got 43.1/19.7 down/up on 2.4ghz, and 45.9/19.8 for 5ghz. no idea how you're getting such a fast upload speed! i guess that depends on your internet connection though. i'm on infinity 2 fibre in the uk which is 67Mbps max (up/down) if i remember correctly.
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The issue was with speedtest app. Downloaded other apps that show speeds correctly.
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Interesting. Which app are you happy with? I'd like to try that to compare!
Yes, the speed wasn't reporting correctly on ookla's speed test app.
I tried another app called speedtest master lite.
This shows me same speeds as other devices.
I'm glad it was an issue with the app itself.
I use a 200Mbps fiber broadband.
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Yes, the speed wasn't reporting correctly on ookla's speed test app.
I tried another app called speedtest master lite.
This shows me same speeds as other devices.
I'm glad it was an issue with the app itself.
I use a 200Mbps fiber broadband.
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Well....I'm glad you're happy but that app gives me repeated 15mbps download times; a third of what I'm seeing with the other app. And no way of choosing which server to use. I'm never sure how much to trust these apps. The only proper test would be to download something from a fast server; well seeded torrent site etc.
My choice is fast.com (Netflix property). Click through for additional details after the initial read. Useful and widely available.
This assumes you are using a reputable browser that itself is not a bottleneck or otherwise compromised.
I eschew speed test apps (including Ookla variants as most are advertising cesspools. Why mess with another app. ugh.
I'm not having speed issues.
No problems here . . please check the screen shot.