Hi, I was wondering if there are ways you can increase your wi-fi speed, like installing drivers or changing options or something? I was also wondering what is the max speed the wi-fi can get up to on the captivate? Ive gone as far as almost 18 Mbps and I have about a 54 Mbps on my home modem.
Sorry no, if you are using a customised ROM, they usually have the so-called "Wi-Fi fixes" on them (not even sure what they fix).
As far as I know though Captivates should be using the full 802.11g capacitiy anyway... What are you using to test these speeds anyway?
The speed test app from the market, only thing i could find to test the speed, thanks for answering!
Ah right, then the speed test you have done is for the Internet Speed. So that's the actual speed you're getting for the internet (even on your home computer, if you're doing this test at the home Wi-Fi), not the actual Wi-Fi speed.
Wait...I tested speedtest on my home computer too and I got about 45 mbps(highest i got) and then I got a 18 Mbps on my phone using wifi(both "download" speeds btw) there are one or two things using wifi in my home but I have another question, am i supposed to be getting around the same speed I have on my phone as I have on my home computer?
Do you have the home computer using wireless as well?
No, I have fios,my home internet modem is also a router
Then yes, it will depend entirely on how many devices you have using the wireless at one point. If you have a 802.11g wireless router, then the max total output will be 54Mbps. This will obviously be shared among your wireless computers/devices.
holy **** so your saying that my captivates wifi can get up to almost as much as my pc modem can?
Theoretically, yes. If there are no other devices on it, and no interferences in-between.
Actually, I just found out that our Cappys have Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; DLNA.
This means that if your wireless router supports the 802.11n framework, it should use that instead (which is greater than 54Mbps).
Of course, I'm not sure if the ROM and/or modem will support that... Stock ROMs will most definitely support it, and probably any ROMs built using the Stock ROM.
Is anyone else having an issue where your device will be hooked up to a wifi network, will still indicate you're connected but no data will sync? I email myself and nothing happens. Happens with FB, Email, Gmail, and Voice Controls don't work.
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Is anyone else having an issue where your device will be hooked up to a wifi network, will still indicate you're connected but no data will sync? I email myself and nothing happens. Happens with FB, Email, Gmail, and Voice Controls don't work.
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I have that issue with my gNex and my wife's DNA on our home network. I don't think it is necessarily this phone, but I am not convinced (yet) that it is my router, either...
TheKaz said:
I have that issue with my gNex and my wife's DNA on our home network. I don't think it is necessarily this phone, but I am not convinced (yet) that it is my router, either...
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It comes and goes, it looks almost app specific. I say Hello Google Now, and it seems to lock up on recognition or says it can't connect to google....but I'm able to browse the internet.
Yeah I've been having a ton of WiFi issues with this phone.
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Yeah I've been having a ton of WiFi issues with this phone.
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I called Moto and after dealing with their terrible level 1 support I got the following:
HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR DOING THE WIPE CACHE PARTITION:
This will remove any temporary files that may be causing the problem, but will not delete your files or settings.
1. With the phone powered off, press the VOL DOWN KEY for 2-3 seconds then POWER key then release.
2. The device will display different BOOT OPTIONS
3. Use the VOL DOWN Key to SCROLL to Recovery and VOL UP Key to select
Tip: If the device reboots, you may have waited to long to make a selection, you will need to begin the process again.
4. The device will display the Motorola logo and then the Android in distress ( logo with Exclamation mark)
5. Press and hold the VOL UP key for 10-15 seconds. While still holding the VOL UP key tap and release the POWER key
Tip: You can try this step, holding the phone in landscape. If you are stuck on step 6, try a force reboot by pressing the Power key and Vol Down key, and start the process again.
6. The device will display additional menu options (Text will appear in BLUE)
7. Use the VOL DOWN Key to scroll to wipe cache partition and the POWER Key to select this option
8. The device will then perform the partition wipe
9. The device will reboot and start the normal power up sequence
Ever since it hasn't had any problems, but it's only been a few hours as well.
The issues started happening again...turned off wifi and everything resynced perfectly...
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The issues started happening again...turned off wifi and everything resynced perfectly...
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Have you tried it on a different router?
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phositadc said:
Have you tried it on a different router?
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I haven't been able to yet, I'm hoping to at work, but my current router works with my laptop and my old HTC
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I haven't been able to yet, I'm hoping to at work, but my current router works with my laptop and my old HTC
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If it doesn't work properly with a different router try exchanging it. Also have you gone into advanced WiFi settings and forced the moto x to 2.4 GHz? If give that a try.
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If it doesn't work properly with a different router try exchanging it. Also have you gone into advanced WiFi settings and forced the moto x to 2.4 GHz? If give that a try.
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It was set to auto, I set it to 2.4 ghz...now to wait if it happens again.
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If it doesn't work properly with a different router try exchanging it. Also have you gone into advanced WiFi settings and forced the moto x to 2.4 GHz? If give that a try.
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The force to 2.4ghz actually made the problem occur a lot faster, any reason it might be due to the massive amount of wifi networks around? When I set to scan 5 ghz there was only one still open, I might go into my router and see if I can change the atenna settings.
EDIT: Turns out if I go to 5 ghz my computer can't connect, but I changed the channel to something less populated in the area to see if that helps.
DOUBLE EDIT: It appears to occur after I'm supposed to get a Facebook notification, at that point I don't get any more notifications....attempting to clear out facebook data and cache to see if that does anything
Try disabling WMM on your router.
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Try disabling WMM on your router.
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Forgive the stupid, but what's WMM short for in case that's not readily apparent?
Edit: I've also noticed the problem is exponentially worse after I upload pictures to facebook
Edit Edit: Found WMM, turned it off, let's see what happens.
I has this kind of issue before and did a cold boot but nothing happaned. so my last option was to do a restore. After that, my WIFI connection got okay again. problem solved :silly:
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I has this kind of issue before and did a cold boot but nothing happaned. so my last option was to do a restore. After that, my WIFI connection got okay again. problem solved :silly:
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You mean full reset? It looks like I may have to do that with the idle battery drain issue anyways....so that's the last resort.
Hey guys I'm having a similar issue with my moto x on the 2.4ghz band. Speeds are very slow and sometimes cut out completely. Im getting a download speed of about 300kb/s on 2.4 both on auto channel and it doesn't rlly change once I change it manually to an open channel using WiFi analyzer app. My download speeds on 5ghz hit 4000kb/s even with a much lower signal strength.
YouTube and Netflix is unusable and growing the internet sucks. I usually just use the 4g network while at home cuz its a thousand times faster but I'd like this to be fixed regardless. Has anyone found a solution or explanation?
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matt87n said:
Hey guys I'm having a similar issue with my moto x on the 2.4ghz band. Speeds are very slow and sometimes cut out completely. Im getting a download speed of about 300kb/s on 2.4 both on auto channel and it doesn't rlly change once I change it manually to an open channel using WiFi analyzer app. My download speeds on 5ghz hit 4000kb/s even with a much lower signal strength.
YouTube and Netflix is unusable and growing the internet sucks. I usually just use the 4g network while at home cuz its a thousand times faster but I'd like this to be fixed regardless. Has anyone found a solution or explanation?
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I'm having these issues too. Got the GSM Developer Edition on 11/29. It immediately updated to Kit Kat OTA so I'm not sure whether it had the issue prior to Kit Kat or not. This only happens on 2.4 ghz wifi and only with one of my routers at home, a Netgear WNDR3700v2 running OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment (I tried upgrading from Backfire to see if it would help, it did not). The other router is a Linksys WRT350N and when the phone is connected to that one the problem does not happen. Note, that there are 2 laptops, a Samsung Galaxy S2, and a Kindle Fire HDX that have zero problems with the WNDR3700. All can transfer data perfectly fine and at high speeds. Thus I do not think the router is bad. Have not checked work routers. 5 ghz wifi is totally fine and indeed very good with this phone.
For me, the problem is that the phone seems unable to receive data at high speed (over 1Mbps) on 2.4 ghz wifi in any area where the signal isn't perfect and sometimes even in the same room as the router (although usually it is fine there). Oddly in many cases when it has trouble receiving it can send data much faster. It almost seems like it might be some kind of interference as it is rather random.
At this point I'm wondering if the phone has a defective 2.4ghz subsystem, though that seem unlikely due to good transfer with the WRT350N, or if this is some kind of wifi tuning software bug in the phone.
Any info would be appreciated. Does anyone have this issue who did not have the issue on Jellybean? Am wondering if anything changed with wifi for the update? Note, I have tried clearing the cache in recovery as noted in another thread with no luck. Anyone have the WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini file from Jellybean for this phone? Would rather not reflash just for 1 file.
Thanks.
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I'm having these issues too. Got the GSM Developer Edition on 11/29. It immediately updated to Kit Kat OTA so I'm not sure whether it had the issue prior to Kit Kat or not. This only happens on 2.4 ghz wifi and only with one of my routers at home, a Netgear WNDR3700v2 running OpenWrt Attitude Adjustment (I tried upgrading from Backfire to see if it would help, it did not). The other router is a Linksys WRT350N and when the phone is connected to that one the problem does not happen. Note, that there are 2 laptops, a Samsung Galaxy S2, and a Kindle Fire HDX that have zero problems with the WNDR3700. All can transfer data perfectly fine and at high speeds. Thus I do not think the router is bad. Have not checked work routers. 5 ghz wifi is totally fine and indeed very good with this phone.
For me, the problem is that the phone seems unable to receive data at high speed (over 1Mbps) on 2.4 ghz wifi in any area where the signal isn't perfect and sometimes even in the same room as the router (although usually it is fine there). Oddly in many cases when it has trouble receiving it can send data much faster. It almost seems like it might be some kind of interference as it is rather random.
At this point I'm wondering if the phone has a defective 2.4ghz subsystem, though that seem unlikely due to good transfer with the WRT350N, or if this is some kind of wifi tuning software bug in the phone.
Any info would be appreciated. Does anyone have this issue who did not have the issue on Jellybean? Am wondering if anything changed with wifi for the update? Note, I have tried clearing the cache in recovery as noted in another thread with no luck. Anyone have the WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini file from Jellybean for this phone? Would rather not reflash just for 1 file.
Thanks.
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For what it's worth I have this same Netgear router and have had the same connectivity issues on both 4.2.2 and 4.4.
I did some reading today and found a couple possible fixes I plan on trying out. First one is to disable WMM. Secondly I found on the official netgear forums that they have had major issues (some of which you've described) with all firmwares ending in the .30s and went so far as to pull them from their download section.
My router was running firmware .36 and I successfully downgraded it to the latest stable firmware .12 that netgear now recommends.
Hopefully 1 of those 2 fixes improves the performance, at any rate I really think it's something with the router itself and not the moto x.
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Thanks for letting me know this was also an issue on 4.2.2. Saves me the trouble of flashing back just to test.
I will be interested to know if your using official netgear 1.0.0.12 firmware fixes the issue for you. I haven't actually ever used the official firmware as I've run OpenWRT since I got the router a year or two ago. 10.03.1 had the issue, and it appears 12.09 does as well. I may try a trunk build at some point to see if that changes anything.
I had previously written that all was well on the 5 ghz band. This appears to not be 100% correct. Yesterday evening and this morning I found myself "connected" to the 5ghz band without actually having working internet. Toggle wifi on/off fixes it, but I shouldn't have to do it.
Not sure if this helps, but on the 2.4 ghz side things do work better on one side of the house vs the other. Also it seems that I can get a very fast connection at times and then it stumbles and gets stuck going under 1 Mbps. I still suspect either a defect or some kind of low level radio issues with the moto or the router regarding interference from neighboring wifi access points (there are a lot around me, single family houses on small lots). However, keep in mind no other device has these issues but the moto. In the rare instance I venture into a bad signal pocket the signal indicator goes down and speed slows or they lose connection vs the moto where it can show excellent signal and have no/nearly no connectivity.
I haven't tried it for long, but switching to wireless g mode vs ng may improve stability though I only briefly tried it. I did walk around part of my house checking the Mbps with the app "WiFi Speed Test" and while way slower than N mode it was far more stable. Even if this does work it is a definate downgrade in speed though.
Well its only been a day or two so it may be too early to tell, but so far my wifi seems much better after making those two fixes I mentioned above. This is on 2.4 band, the 5ghz band doesn't provide me enough signal strength to use all the time (router is too far from my bedroom).
The main issue I was having was my wifi signal would cut out even though it still showed a good connection. I could swipe down on the status bar and see no download arrow next to the wifi icon so I knew I wasn't receiving data. However a simple disconnect and reconnect to my wifi would fix the problem until it happened again. This seemed to be most common while watching YouTube videos, in fact it happened far too often which is why I went searching for a solution.
So as I mentioned things seem to be better for sure so far but I need to give it a week or so to see how much it is really helped, but so far I can't remember any wifi cutting out since I've made those two fixes.
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Hi, I upgraded to the latest .11 lollipop update and my wifi seems to disconnect every time my screen turns off. I don't have that option checked within the wifi advanced settings. Anyone else running into this issue, or know how to prevent this from happening? Thanks!
This was happening to me as well. Only happened on 5 GHz. I couldn't figure it out so I gave up and switched to 2.4 GHz lol
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This was happening to me as well. Only happened on 5 GHz. I couldn't figure it out so I gave up and switched to 2.4 GHz lol
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I don't have a dual band router or anything. Is there something in the settings I can tweak around?
Well, I have heard people suggesting to use 20MHz bandwidth for 2.4 GHz (especially if you live in an area with tons of wifi radios), try a less crowded channel, adjust power levels of the radios on the router, etc.
My Moto X is working perfectly on 2.4GHz, thankfully, so I haven't messed with my router because of it. However, I did set my 2.4GHz to 20 MHz a few months ago to solve some weird connectivity issues with my laptop.
I suppose it's worth a try.
Other than that, I can't think of anything.
If anyone else has any ideas, chime in.
I'm not sure if this is a networking issue or phone issue, but I think I got this narrowed down to a phone issue.
I currently have a 105mbps plan through Comcast and all is working well except my Nexus 6 WiFi SpeedTest maxes out at around 20-22mbps.
Currently routing with a WRT1200AC Router with both 2.4 and 5ghz bands enabled.
I am aware the Nexus 6 supports 802.11ac; therefore I connected to my 5ghz band network. The nexus shows i'm getting a solid 360mbps connection to the router. However when doing a SpeedTest it caps at 20-22mbps (I should be getting around 105mbps). I suspect no issue with the router as I tested with a 802.11ac supported laptop and was screaming past my 105mbps speed. Based off some google searches I found that possible causes were maybe some power saving features, those have been turned off.
Troubleshooting I have done:
- Moved my 5ghz band to different channels
- Tried different 5ghz channel widths
- Tested speed on 2.4ghz band (Same Results)
- Tested Another Nexus 6 (I tried running a speedtest with a family members N6 running pure stock rom/unrooted and same results as with my Custom Rom'd N6)
- Disabled Carrier Radio leaving only wifi on.
- Reboot Phone, Router, toggled wifi Off and on.
Any other suggestions? It would be pretty disappointing of Google / Motorola if this was the result of hardware capabilities.
Select a different server on Speed Test.
not seeing that issue here...
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Select a different server on Speed Test.
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Tried a couple different servers, same outcome
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OK thanks for looking!
hmmmm
Are you kidding me right now?
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Are you kidding me right now?
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I think that is your device... Mine works both 2.4 and 5 ghz just fine.
S20 FE has WiFi 6 support, so not only it does 5Ghz, it supports everything between 1 and 6 GHz range as well.
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it supports everything between 1 and 6 GHz range as well.
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Uhhh..No.
Wifi 6 on this phone is still only 2.4ghz and 5ghz.
Wifi 6E adds support for 6ghz.
See https://www.techspot.com/news/83483-wi-fi-alliance-introduces-new-wi-fi-6e.html
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I think that is your device... Mine works both 2.4 and 5 ghz just fine.
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@Trashking
I think its WF6 which you might be referring too? which is still a relatively new standard.
Ok... For some reason my 5Ghz at home wasn't showing up (for a couple days)
Then now it just showed up as an option.
Weird.
After looking around online, there were some rumors that the screen refresh rate set to 120Hz might interfere with the 5Ghz wifi. For anyone else looking, that setting had nothing to do with my issue.
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I think that is your device... Mine works both 2.4 and 5 ghz just fine.
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U have to set ur 5GHZ wifi to channel 155 (for my router there was no 155, i chose 157 instead) in order for ur s20 FE to find it. then u will be able to see the "SSD" of ur 5GHZ wifi in "Available networks" under the wifi settings tab. My router supports both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz so put different names for both and after selecting the channle i was able to see the 5Ghz one!
I discovered it when I saw a 5Ghz wifi with 155ch visible with an app called wifi analyzer (under the "Access points" tab). Then i changed my channel to that and Voila! there it is. Also, sometimes i couldn't find my 5Ghz wifi in the settings. In that case i used the same app to find my wifi under the "Access Points" tab and double click on it, then it would give me an option "Connect?"
Hope this helps y'all!
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Ok... For some reason my 5Ghz at home wasn't showing up (for a couple days)
Then now it just showed up as an option.
Weird.
After looking around online, there were some rumors that the screen refresh rate set to 120Hz might interfere with the 5Ghz wifi. For anyone else looking, that setting had nothing to do with my issue.
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yeah thats becos of the channel keeps on changing. set the channel to 155 or anything else closest to 155!