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Poor Wi-Fi signal reception

Hi all
I'm playing with my new Xperia T since 4 days and I noticed right away that it's got one of the worst WiFi reception quality of any phone I've ever owned.
Either that or there are problems with WiFi signals from 802.11n routers.
Result is, it struggles to keep connected to my network, and I have to hold the phone in an awkward way, while previously I didn't care about that.
Anyone with the same issue?

No sorry, in my case I it has one of the best reception I've ever had on a phone.
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I don't have problems keeping the connection up, but it is indeed lacking in wifi sensibility.
Performing a scan, my old HTC Desire shows more wifi access points, and with better signal, than this phone.

I have no problems connecting, but signal seems quite weak. With my old x10 I could retain connection in my back garden, but with T it won't go past the back door!!
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I measured the signal intensity with the network monitor app and the levels seem quite similar to other phones (i was testing with a galaxy note), but the Xperia gives out much earlier at -85 dbm, the Samsung phone holds on instead at the same level.
Maybe it's software related?

[Q] HTC One wifi problems

Hi,
I've noticed my HTC One's wifi is really weak. I barely have full bars from my wifi and worst when I am not in the same room as the wifi router I would lose connection altogether.
This only happens with the HTC One as I have tested this with different devices. Has anyone experienced the same problem?
Thank you

I've posted about WiFi dropping out,but for me, performance and signal strength are great. I have seen over 2mb/sec download rates
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My WiFi signal is great, but my router is very close to my room
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Stop covering the top metal piece and use 5 GHz if you can.
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Hunt3r.j2 said:
Stop covering the top metal piece and use 5 GHz if you can.
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Yeah? and what about landscape?

darkgoon3r96 said:
Yeah? and what about landscape?
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Don't grip it? The problem is when you conductively bridge the two metal pieces or you completely cover the emitter/receiver portion. The first is unique to the phone, the second is a universal issue because WiFi is easily absorbed by watery bodies.
Edit: If you hold it so that the right side of the phone is the bottom in portrait, don't cover the top left metal area. (Looking at the back, top left metal strip) That is where the antenna is for WiFi, and there is no other antenna for it.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
Don't grip it? The problem is when you conductively bridge the two metal pieces or you completely cover the emitter/receiver portion. The first is unique to the phone, the second is a universal issue because WiFi is easily absorbed by watery bodies.
Edit: If you hold it so that the right side of the phone is the bottom in portrait, don't cover the top left metal area. (Looking at the back, top left metal strip) That is where the antenna is for WiFi, and there is no other antenna for it.
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Actually that part of the phone is easy to avoid gripping but i would prefer HTC to put in a secondary Wi-Fi antenna in the bottom like for cellular.

darkgoon3r96 said:
Actually that part of the phone is easy to avoid gripping but i would prefer HTC to put in a secondary Wi-Fi antenna in the bottom like for cellular.
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I think HTC had no choice here, it is very hard to make it work. The same issue is present on the iPhone 5, if you cup the bottom WiFi/BT reception drops like a rock.
Easiest solution is to use a case and never worry about it again, but even then, 2.4 GHz is the same frequency used for microwave ovens. Oil/water absorbs it very easily.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
Stop covering the top metal piece and use 5 GHz if you can.
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5Ghz only works well line of site. If there are walls etc you'll probably get better connectivity with 2.4. Try different channels. This device is much better than the One X+ as far as wifi. on the One x+ in regular 99% of the time grip it would drop wifi almost completely In my bedroom (4 bars wifi) Grip it and drops to 1 or none. With the One i still get 4 bars untouched but it only drops to 3 when i grip it. If i grab top left then it drops like the x+ did. Yes it has a grip issue but ive seen much worse.

My ONE has amazing wifi reception, I can finally use the wifi from my bedroom in other areas of the house which I couldnt do with any galaxy or nexus phone i've owned.

Isoyaboy said:
Hi,
I've noticed my HTC One's wifi is really weak. I barely have full bars from my wifi and worst when I am not in the same room as the wifi router I would lose connection altogether.
This only happens with the HTC One as I have tested this with different devices. Has anyone experienced the same problem?
Thank you
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Hi, I want to buy htc one.i heard that its wifi drops signal a lot of times and when you turn on wifi then you have to get the sim out of your phone.is it true? And what do you think about htc one after using it?

Okay what metal piece we should stop covering ? I have a case and it worked fine now it's losing signal all the time but data works

Not every HTC One is created equally?
My wife, her son Ian, and I just bought three HTC One phones. Of the three, Ian's phone is the only one having troubles with 2.4 GHz in my house. It seems to work better with 5 GHz. But my wife's phone and my phone work fine with 2.4 GHz. I did have one problem though. Last night for a while mine could not connect at all until I reset the phone.
Using WiFi Analyzer I saw that Ian's phone was getting significantly lower signal strength.
Has anyone else see anything as specific as this?
John

Don't know if it is a problem of the router or the HTC One, so please help:
When I'm connected to wifi (only tried it at home at the moment) it sometimes have full bars and then suddenly drops to zero bars and disconnects (I didn't leave the room or move). A few seconds later it's connected again and shows full bars. 10/20 minutes later - same as told.
My HTC Desire doesn't have this problem.
Is it hardware related or could it be the router (dual - 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)? Is there something I can do?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Hmm, nevermind, problem solved. On phone I changed frequency to 2.4 GHz and ticked "best Wifi" (something like that) and now I got full bars and stable wifi.

.vermilion said:
Don't know if it is a problem of the router or the HTC One, so please help:
When I'm connected to wifi (only tried it at home at the moment) it sometimes have full bars and then suddenly drops to zero bars and disconnects (I didn't leave the room or move). A few seconds later it's connected again and shows full bars. 10/20 minutes later - same as told.
My HTC Desire doesn't have this problem.
Is it hardware related or could it be the router (dual - 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)? Is there something I can do?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Hmm, nevermind, problem solved. On phone I changed frequency to 2.4 GHz and ticked "best Wifi" (something like that) and now I got full bars and stable wifi.
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I'm having the same problem!!!!! Change frequency? How?
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Guys i have a problem. there is an error coming again and again when i connect to a wifi network .
Happening from last 2 days.

khandelwalsiddharth said:
Guys i have a problem. there is an error coming again and again when i connect to a wifi network .
Happening from last 2 days.
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Thats server based with your provider, it has nothing to do with your phone! And its all arround XDA!
Regards and dont forget Search is your intimate friend!

hi i have a problem
hi i have a really akward problem my wifi connection is the worst in the world with my HTC ONE ... the phone only connects 1 meter form the router i need help ... its a HTC ONE SPRINT thx all the help will be really apreciated

Same problem
w1n73rf3ll said:
hi i have a really akward problem my wifi connection is the worst in the world with my HTC ONE ... the phone only connects 1 meter form the router i need help ... its a HTC ONE SPRINT thx all the help will be really apreciated
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I have the same issue as you.... Im guessing Its the M7's antenna. Will try opening it up and having a look. Will let you guys know if i find anything.

w1n73rf3ll said:
hi i have a really akward problem my wifi connection is the worst in the world with my HTC ONE ... the phone only connects 1 meter form the router i need help ... its a HTC ONE SPRINT thx all the help will be really apreciated
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HI have the same problem... can u fix it?? Thanks

[Q] Poor wifi performance

For those who have the device, how does your wifi signal strength compare. Sitting at my desk, I get no bars now where on my OneX I got 2 or 3.

pinn___________ said:
For those who have the device, how does your wifi signal strength compare. Sitting at my desk, I get no bars now where on my OneX I got 2 or 3.
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Same issue here on a phone from O2 with the latest software installed.
Compared to an iphone 5 struggles to hang onto signal. Tried both bands as well, same issue.

I can see my work wifi in a location I frequent with previous phones.
I can connect and use it even though it gives me just a dot for the signal. other phones struggle in this same location.
Perhaps try turning off Wifi power saving in the settings
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Has turning wifi power saving off, has this helped?.. for me this has made no difference
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No wifi issues here what so ever

yeah its pretty bad for me. next room and i'm down to "1 bar" when on all of my other devices i'd get 4 or 5

guys from what I've seen don't go by the little signal strength indicator on the notification bar as it doesn't really reflect what's actually happening, I had a XZU for a few weeks and a Z before that, I can pick up wifi connections on both the XZU and Z1 were the Z was out of range, I was sitting in a bar last night connected to a wifi AP that was about 100m away and there are structures and people in-between, the Z1 is as good as the ZU when connecting to wifi and both are better than the Z

Check with this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
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pinn___________ said:
For those who have the device, how does your wifi signal strength compare. Sitting at my desk, I get no bars now where on my OneX I got 2 or 3.
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Wifi on my Z1 C6903 seems really poor.
Connected to 5Ghz on a dual band wifi router situated in the tv room. I don't get any connectivity from my room which is around 10m away.
I used to get decent connectivity on my iphone 5 - speedtest of around 14mbps. I can't even connect to speedtest on my Z1.
On a sidenote - what is with the headphone button not working. Had to update to .534 after much googling. Also, the new firmware doesn't help the wifi issues. Who knows how long we'll have to wait for a fix ...which may or may not improve it.
Also, did try to turn off the wifi power saving "feature" as well. Didn't do much.
Anyways that's my feedback.

same here! very bad connection with the xperia z1.

Yep poor wifi performance, I hope we get a software fix soon

Same here, disconnects from wifi a lot.
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Id just like to know, Wifi is that bad, compared to what?
Regards

Flashmore said:
Id just like to know, Wifi is that bad, compared to what?
Regards
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In OP, I said compared to my previous phone. Also, have trouble with mobile data being very slow. With that being said, I have moved provider to EE but they are supposed to have decent coverage.
Not sure now whether to return and get a new one or get the Notes 3 instead.

maverick1103 said:
Same here, disconnects from wifi a lot.
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No Wi-fi issues here at all.. Even with the door closed, when I got to the next room, get plenty of signal and speed...
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In OP, I said compared to my previous phone. Also, have trouble with mobile data being very slow. With that being said, I have moved provider to EE but they are supposed to have decent coverage.
Not sure now whether to return and get a new one or get the Notes 3 instead.
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You might want to move to 4G... EE 3G is so slow... I get 10 times the speed I used to get on EE 3G now that I'm on EE 4G...

Sean473 said:
No Wi-fi issues here at all.. Even with the door closed, when I got to the next room, get plenty of signal and speed...
You might want to move to 4G... EE 3G is so slow... I get 10 times the speed I used to get on EE 3G now that I'm on EE 4G...
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No 4g where I'm at yet - promised by Xmas....

Sean473 said:
No Wi-fi issues here at all.. Even with the door closed, when I got to the next room, get plenty of signal and speed...
You might want to move to 4G... EE 3G is so slow... I get 10 times the speed I used to get on EE 3G now that I'm on EE 4G...
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I've turned off the the wifi optimisation off, it seems to of helped but still not as good as the wifi on the HTC One.
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Flashmore said:
Id just like to know, Wifi is that bad, compared to what?
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HTC One
Galaxy S4
iPhone 5
iPhone 5S
Basically it is rubbish so far. The signal and speed is not as good as other devices.
Interested in hearing more from people who say it is fine.
Fine compared to what? Can you give examples?
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As an example between Z1 and a 5S.
Same router, same distance.
Speedtest.net app on each phone.
Z1
Ping: 248ms
Down: 0.42
Up: 1.25
5S
Ping: 45ms
Down: 17.49
Up: 2.5
(I have around 20mbit fibre with around 3-4mbit up)

How frustrating, I was looking at upgrading to this phone, and reading most of the posts floating around I am having huge deja vu experiences with the newly launched Xperia Z and the pains associated with being some of the first. I feel for you all.
While we are talking WIFI, anyone tested the 802.11ac bands?

maverick1103 said:
I've turned off the the wifi optimisation off, it seems to of helped but still not as good as the wifi on the HTC One.
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I did a proper test yesterday. Closed my living room door (living room is where router is) and closed my own room's door... Got plenty of signal and about 33Mb/s which is good considering my connection is a 50Mb/s one.. Get about 48 on my laptop which is very near router...Don't see any issues here

Especially bad low signal battery life

My house has terrible reception in general (T-Mobile!), but I've never had a phone drain THIS quickly due to searching for signal.
I've set it to 2G only (I only get EDGE at my house anyway, THANKS OBAMA) and it seems to be helping.
Is the Nexus 5 or Kit Kat in general aggressive with searching for 3G/4G signal in anyone else's experience?
Like I said, other phones haven't had this issue.
Cheers
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Ajfink said:
My house has terrible reception in general (T-Mobile!), but I've never had a phone drain THIS quickly due to searching for signal.
I've set it to 2G only (I only get EDGE at my house anyway, THANKS OBAMA) and it seems to be helping.
Is the Nexus 5 or Kit Kat in general aggressive with searching for 3G/4G signal in anyone else's experience?
Like I said, other phones haven't had this issue.
Cheers
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I have terrible signal too and standby time is horrible. I'll try using faux kernel and report back.

I have same setup as you except my network settings are set to LTE even though there is no lte in my area. Not saying i have great battery life, but it isnt 49% looking for signal.
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I have this SAME problem, and the signal on my phone is terrible compared to my last LTE phone.

same problem at work...... I dont know how 1 place can go from lte to 4g to edge all with in a small building with 1 floor. First day while being at school i got 3 hours screentime on lte, today at work i got like 1.5 hours.

27% over 12 hours with one bar seems just fine to me..
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Mine reacts different with st att. I get 1 bar of lte in my home when I force lte. If I do auto switch gsm/lte it opts to 3 to 4 bars of hspa, which of course I prefer at home on Wi-Fi.
I've used tmobile for most of my smart phone life and always used tasker to switch to edge when connected to Wi-Fi. Saved a lot of battery. So your experience has been what I normally get.
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I have T-mobile as well and my house is in a bad spot. I found that with my note 2 I could use the dialer debug codes to manually set the phone to what ever freq and service I wanted. I found this to greatly help my battery as the modems for T-mo are particularly bad at determining the correct type of service to use and needlessly killing battery.
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At least I'm not alone. It's just annoying to have to switch to 2G only when I go home. -.-
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Are you guys using wifi while at home? If not then you really should. It generally makes the data modem go into a lower power state if wifi is connected saving battery. Thats how it is on my VZW galaxy nexus.

blackhand1001 said:
Are you guys using wifi while at home? If not then you really should. It generally makes the data modem go into a lower power state if wifi is connected saving battery. Thats how it is on my VZW galaxy nexus.
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I do use WiFi at my house.
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I have full data bars in my area. If I turn WiFi off and just use data the battery drains significantly faster.

I am new to T-Mobile, I was with Verizon and my house on Verizon barely gets LTE. My galaxy nexus never got LTE but with T-Mobile my Nexus 5 has 3-4 bars of LTE. So I've been using LTE lately and my battery life has been great. I get 5 + hours screen on time with LTE.
Of course Verizon says my area has great 4g service too but anybody who has came to my house either gets 1 bar of LTE or 3g on Verizon. Trying to acquire a signal will of course eat battery though but I will tell you what I am very happy with T-Mobile so far, a lot better then I expected.
I am happy with the battery life and signal strength where I live and travel to.

I noticed this issue today as well... hoping for a solution...

kgptzac said:
I noticed this issue today as well... hoping for a solution...
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Like I said, manually switching to 2G-only when you're in the affected area removes the problem, but you'll need to switch it back to LTE when you go anywhere with a better connection time. Settings > More > Mobile Networks > Network Mode.

If you're worried about battery life. There's a few things you can do. I found that turning off my "Ok Google" hot word detection increased battery life immensely. Also try turning off Google Now sometimes. I realize that the highlight of this phone more or less was Google Now, but if you don't need it for a certain period of time, turn it off. Doesn't hurt to try.
Try out Faux kernel also. On his test 7 (I think he just put out test 8) I was on track to get 60 hours of standby time. I'll try and dig up the screenshot..hopefully I didn't loose it one of my many wipes..

ZenithHammerhead said:
Try out Faux kernel also. On his test 7 (I think he just put out test 8) I was on track to get 60 hours of standby time. I'll try and dig up the screenshot..hopefully I didn't loose it one of my many wipes..
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Do you mean Franco? Faux kernel is only on 002 beta 2, Franco's is on test build 8.

I had this problem and I sent my phone back and got a new one. The new phone doesn't do it at all just got a day and a half with over 4 hours screen time. I think some of the nexus 5's are a bit dodgy.
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Do you mean Franco? Faux kernel is only on 002 beta 2, Franco's is on test build 8.
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Yes. Sorry, I had flashed both kernels and decided on Franco for now because it seems he's had the most progress so far. He also received his own device today so he should be able to get even more things done!
Looking forward to both of their kernels!

kurnis said:
I have this SAME problem, and the signal on my phone is terrible compared to my last LTE phone.
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+1. It looks like my N5 gets 5-8 dBm worse signal than my N4.

Stronger wifi

It seems that the Wi-Fi on the nexus 5 is a lot more sensitive then on the Nexus 4. With no changes in network gear I'm able to get WiFi in more places than before. It even stronger than my old HP laptop.

I noticed that as well although at first I paniced because the wifi bars would show weak signal.
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I've experienced the exact opposite.

It does do really well on WiFi huh? I was surprised a few days after I got it, sitting in a parking lot trying to swipe some free WiFi and the Tab 8.9 wouldn't connect, but the Nexus 5 did. It's almost on par with my HP ultrabook, which no mobile device has touched.
Does well on 5ghz too, which is a nice bonus, since I prefer to use 5ghz to avoid all the clutter on the 2.4g band.

yeah it's awesome. I live on the 6th floor of an apartment building and I was able to get signal from the first floor (not the void deck but in the open space surrounding my building though)

WiFi signal strength was my concern after a few users reported weak WiFi reception. My N5 got great WiFi reception, which is similar to SGS3/4 reception and better than iPhone 5 has.
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Moostafa29 said:
I've experienced the exact opposite.
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Same.
At home in my bedroom across the house from my router I would have no trouble with my N4. Not so much with my N5.

What is strange for me is that I can see APs that I couldn't see with my Galaxy S2, but the AP I m connected to has now a weaker signal.
I hope that is only software related...

wow!
A mostly positive thread about a nexus 5 feature. My WiFi is great and faster also than my htc's.

Mine consistently shows weaker signal on both Wi-Fi and mobile network compared to my s4. Using Wi-Fi analyzer I see more networks with my s4. I tried turning off n5 battery saving on Wi-Fi and it makes a slight difference. I feel the signal is weak for the n5.
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Any coverage of the top half of the back of the phone sees a big drop in WiFi reception for me.
If I'm in a different room from the router, even placing the phone down on its back sees a big drop in WiFi strength.
Those in this thread saying they have strong reception, what happens when you do the above?

waspattack said:
Any coverage of the top half of the back of the phone sees a big drop in WiFi reception for me.
If I'm in a different room from the router, even placing the phone down on its back sees a big drop in WiFi strength.
Those in this thread saying they have strong reception, what happens when you do the above?
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That can actually severely hamper landscape usage if true.

I did some testing and Wi-Fi speeds do match my S4 despite the meter reading showing lower signal. Also, even with 1 bar less than max for mobile, I get incredible LTE speed.
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Seems about the same to me vs the N4.

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That can actually severely hamper landscape usage if true.
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I really had to cup my hand over top to get the signal to drop. So unless you hold your phone as if it was a baby bird, you should be fine.

I think the opposite of this phone. In the back of my house I get 1 bar on the N5. On my old S3 I would get 2-3 bars and wifi worked just fine. With the N5 and 1 bar wifi is not working nearly as well. I also noticed that the signal is weaker on the N4.

coolguy949 said:
Mine consistently shows weaker signal on both Wi-Fi and mobile network compared to my s4. Using Wi-Fi analyzer I see more networks with my s4. I tried turning off n5 battery saving on Wi-Fi and it makes a slight difference. I feel the signal is weak for the n5.
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This is exactly what I've found as well. But to be honest, I think the S4 is able to get really good signal. I had a iPhone5 a couple of months ago and wasn't able to get signal in a certain part of my house (same with my N5). With my S4, I was able to get signal just fine.

Has anyone tried the 802.11ac band yet? I don't have a router that can broadcast on that.

Caelrie said:
Has anyone tried the 802.11ac band yet? I don't have a router that can broadcast on that.
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I am using 5ghz and as mentioned a couple posts above the signal seems worse at the back of my house. Maybe I will switch to 2.4ghz tonight and see if that makes any difference.

EcPercy said:
I am using 5ghz and as mentioned a couple posts above the signal seems worse at the back of my house. Maybe I will switch to 2.4ghz tonight and see if that makes any difference.
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But unless it's actually the ac wifi, you don't have access to beamforming, which is supposed to help with the range weaknesses of the 5ghz band. The nexus 5 is one of the very first devices to support it, so I'm curious.