[Q] Log wifi connection - AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I need to find an app that will log when my phone is connected to a wifi and when it is connected to at&t.
My Exede internet provider claims that I have a solid connection, yet, my phone spends a lot of time on AT&T connection while I am within range of my home router. I will also find a program that will work on windows and plug a laptop directly into the modem so I can eliminate router problems.
Thanks

akdale said:
I need to find an app that will log when my phone is connected to a wifi and when it is connected to at&t.
My Exede internet provider claims that I have a solid connection, yet, my phone spends a lot of time on AT&T connection while I am within range of my home router. I will also find a program that will work on windows and plug a laptop directly into the modem so I can eliminate router problems.
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You don't need a program to do that, you need a length of Ethernet cable with connectors on the ends. Unless your laptop is really old it has an Ethernet jack. Just plug the cable into that, and plug the other end of the cable into the modem. Or plug it into one of the connectors on the router if it's just a wifi issue. You have 3 options - wifi, Ethernet connection to the router or Ethernet connection to the modem. Windows will grab an IP address from the router if you're doing it that way (wired or wifi) or from your provider (if you connect to the modem). How connecting the laptop to the modem will eliminate problems with the phone is something I'm confused about, unless you're going to use the laptop as a wifi hotspot for the phone. That's a program I can't help you with. I did an exhaustive search for that kind of setup about 2 years ago, and there was no cheap way to do it. (There's a company that has a box and software, but if you think a Note 3 bought outright is more than pocket change ... $5,000? $6,000? Something in that neighborhood.)
As far as your other problem - the phone not getting wifi from your router? (Whether your internet connection to the router is solid or not has nothing to do with whether the phone is connecting to the router via wifi. I can connect to a wifi router that's not connected to the internet at all. It'll cause "unable to connect" type messages from every app that needs an internet connection, but it'll still be connected to the router.
So, there are a few things you need to figure out. Try Data ON-Off, a free app for the phone. That will allow you to turn your AT&T (3G/4G) data off so, good signal from wifi or not, your phone won't use AT&T.
Use Wifi Analytics (another free app) to ssee what's going on there. If there a few wifi signals on the same channel as yours, you may be getting so much interference that the phone can't see your router's signal and drops that connection. (Changing channels on the router depends on which router you have, but it's in the wifi section and it's simple - usually just a dropdown for channel number. Wifi Analytics lists the channels as poor, good and best based on what signals are on what channel. Use one of the ones marked best, or at least good.)
It also depends on what's between you and the router. In my last house, if I was on the deck and someone turned on the microwave, I lost the internet. The physical path from my seat on the deck to the router passed right through the microwave. Little metal box, not much signal loss. But when it was running it wasn't a little metal box, it was a huge 2.4GHz transmitter, transmitting (as far as wifi is concerned) garbage and noise. I didn't mind 30 or 60 seconds of loss of signal, I'd just refresh the page when the microwave was done. But my wife, who plays WoW, would want to get safe before I ran the microwave. 5 seconds of no signal and you can get killed there. (She may be the only player ever on WoW who died when she was dead. Something like she got killed PvP at the edge of a lake, fell in and drowned. Drowned while she was already dead.) If the path from your phone to your router is through a lot of walls, that's a problem too. Each piece of sheet rock only absorbs a little signal, but a few walls together can kill it. Same thing if the path is through a large piece of metal, like a refrigerator. Or if your router antenna is vertical and you're on the floor above it. (Antennas shoot at right angles to their axes.)
This is the kind of thing that drives microwave engineers mad. If you're going for minimum power needed for the path loss, and you didn't notice that tree in the path in December, come May when the tree has leaves you lose the signal, and thousands of customers scream. Oops. (It's also why some satellite TV systems don't work very well when it's pouring rain. They didn't calculate the additional path loss. "It never rains, does it?")
But understand, the strength of your internet signal (Exede to your modem) has nothing to do with the strength of the signal from your router to your phone over wifi. Think of a radio station. The announcer is so close to the mic that his lips are touching it, and he's shouting. But you're MANY miles away and can barely hear the station through the static. Or, the other way around, you live right near the transmitter, but the announcer is in the room next to the mic and he's mumbling. In each case one part of the "signal path" (which included announcer to mic and transmitter to receiver) is good but the other one isn't. Your Exede to modem path is good, but something between there and the phone is bad.
So if you still want to use wifi from your router, you may now have enough information to figure out why it's not solid connection, and maybe enough to change what needs to be changed to make it work. (Moving 2 feet left [or whatever] may be enough to increase the signal enough to give you a solid connection on wifi if, looking from where the phone isn't working well to the router [with X-Ray eyes], you see a refrigerator or something..)

Thanks very much for the in depth reply.
Unfortunately I was not very clear with my question.
I have not had any problem with my router talking to my cell phones or with my laptops through LAN.
I have an intermittent connection to the internet.
Originally, my router was hooked up to an ADSL modem. Everything worked great.
Had to change providers to Exede (Sat. dish Internet provider)
Started having intermittent connection to the internet. (Not weather related)
Exede tells me that they do not show any dropped connections to their modem.
When I disconnect from Exede, and hook back up to the ADSL, the intermittent connection problem to the WAN goes away and works as it should.
Looking for an app for my cellphone that will log when the phone changes from access to internet through my LAN, to access through AT&T.
Also, I am looking for a shareware/freeware program for my laptop that will log when its internet connection is dropped.
Thanks

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Kaiser WiFi connection

I have a problem, my Kaiser connects to my WiFi Router which is a Linksys WRT54GR. And then after 10 seconds or (sometimes 30 seconds) I have no datacom. I am still connected though but no data is being sent or received. If I turn the WiFi off and then on again on my kaiser then I am again able to communicate for about 30 seconds and then it stops again. Does anyone recognise the symptoms ?
Churchill said:
I have a problem, my Kaiser connects to my WiFi Router which is a Linksys WRT54GR. And then after 10 seconds or (sometimes 30 seconds) I have no datacom. I am still connected though but no data is being sent or received. If I turn the WiFi off and then on again on my kaiser then I am again able to communicate for about 30 seconds and then it stops again. Does anyone recognise the symptoms ?
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I have tested the WiFi Kaiser connection with my LinkSys WAG54GS and gives me no problem, works fine...
Tested with DLink Access Point without problem.
LinkSys with WPA and DLink with WPE...
No problema at all, Kaiser makes better like my last PDA, an Hermes one.
Regards.
Try a different channel on the router.
Wifi is pretty weak compared to my other PDAs, iPaq 6915, Q9000, T830, make sure you put the slider on maxium performance and even then the range is not very good.
That's not the experience I have.
I use a Linksys WRT54GL router with Hyper-WRT firmware.
I've no problems at all.
The connection is stable and fast even with the slider totally to the right (max. battery save).
Well...
I have tryed different channel.
My probblem is still in place when I stand right next to the router and have a full reception
I do not loose the connection it just does not send & receive any data, but the connection is there all right...
Hyper WRT firmware... I once flashed my old (very old) linksys router with one of those things and the router died on me, how safe is it now and do you have any recomendations?
I use max battery as well and the Kaiser performs on my home net (4 Linksys Wireless G APs) just like my 8525 good performance even with fairly low signal. I've streamed Slingbox for several hours straight with no disconnects.
I saw this problem described on another forum and unfortunately, the guy had to return his Kaiser. New one worked flawlessly.
I have had mine connected to a USR & Sweex wifi router and it is perfectly fine for prolonged periods of time, It might be worth hard reseting it and trying the wifi first before doing anything else, if its still doing it then send the handset back.
Russ
Do you have the DHCP server enabled on your router ?
When disabled you have to enter manually an ip address on your TytnII within the same ip range.
Otherwise you can't send and receive data.
Furthermore this looks like a DNS problem.
Vanstra,
I know now that it is a DNS problem... My DHCP is on and now I also set the WiFi on the Kaiser to best performance... I have proper connection now. I did have to reboot my Server as it is the primary DNS in my network. Well so far so good. Strange only that I have 2 laptops one desktop and an XBOX and they all functioned perfectly all the time...

Need help filing a bug report on 802.11n connection losses

German G1, stock firmware CRC37, 2.6.27-00393-g6607056
Well, I am in the process of upgrading to 802.11n routers. At my family's place this turned to be a Linksys WRT160N, here at home it's a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH.
With both routers, I am having trouble establishing reliable connections. I've been looking a bit more into it with my Buffalo router: the phone connects to the WLAN, but finally, varying from a few seconds to several minutes, i receive timeouts resulting in UnknownHostExceptions. Toggling wifi will restore connectivity, just to run into the same problem again.
I have had no problem with my Linksys WRT54G, nor with any other devices in my place (two 802.11n devices, a MacBook Pro and an AppleTV). There's also a Wii (802.11g/b?!) and an HP 2133 (802.11n) I haven't tried yet.
The Buffalo router operates on a custom Linux, 40MHz bandwidth, WPA2/AES in the 2.5MHz spectrum, 3 Antennas, 300MB (mimo).
All in all, googling makes me believe that a fair amount of people have problems in similar settings, but none of what I found could point directions into a solution.
Router setup is not the issue (i have been able to reproduce in two totally different setups that work with any other devices I have tried). Neither do I believe that a mix of 802.11g and 802.11n devices necessarily causes these kind of problems (at my family's place a 802.11g imac works flawlessly alongside of my 802.11n MacBook in an 802.11n network).
I am attaching a logcat that I captured while producing the problem. It only illustrates the problem a little.
In the end, probably the broadcom WLAN chip/driver gets stuck at one point and android cannot do much against it. If this is the case, posting a bug report against google/android open source developers probably won't help much, as it seems to be an issue of the driver/wifi chipset combo HTC/TMo uses in the G1.
If you agree on this, in the end I am looking for a way to file a bug report either at htc or t-mobile, but contrary to Android/Google, I haven't found anything on the net that I can file a bug report into... 1.0 companies *sigh*
What other ideas do you have? While I could leave the G1 just on 3g while at home, I don't have reception in every corner and the whole point of having it is being online essentially most of the time in order to catch my mail (it is set to keep wifi on while charging).
Regards
Interestingly, if I start streaming after connecting to WIFI, like speedtest or YouTube, the connection stays alive for the time being...

Internet sharing dilemmas...

This is a 2-part dilemma...
1.) is there a way to use my Wi-fi and data plan as a gateway for internet access with the computers in my home? I want to be able to turn on the Wi-fi, and the phone will become an access point and its internet connection comes from my data plan... I guess this can be done with a T-mobile G1.
2.) the way I do it now is that I hook it up via USB to a computer, and that works pretty well. Problem is, if I disconnect it via software function on the phone or just yank the USB plug out, I have to re-boot my phone before the internet sharing will work again. This gets annoying. Anyone else experience this and/or know if there's a fix?
Or am I just dumb and want everything on a silver platter?
are these computers connect in a network. I am sure it can easily be done by internet connection sharing just have all the computers connect to your pc for a connection.
I thought about doing that--basically an internet share to an internet share. That WOULD work, but I was hoping for something a bit simpler. i am not a hardcore computer user like I was back in the day where I had to have at least 3 computers running 24/7 in order to cope with life. LOL. I was hoping for a setup where I can just walk in the door from a crappy day at work, plug my phone into the charger where it gets its best signal, and just leave it there and the rest will take care of itself. I am close to being able to do that with my Xlink bluetooth cellular gateway. Once I am home, there's no reason why I have to carry my phone around the house, as my hard-wired phones in the house ring through my cellular and I can make calls from them
The other option is to quit being a cheap turd and get a $30/mo internet connection for my computers, which is faster than the EDGE service I get here at home. But I live alone and don't download big stuff anymore or play multiplayer games, etc
I think the concept in question is one that has been batted around here for some time: Can the Kaiser be used as an access point with an internet connection?
As far as anyone's been able to tell, no. The phone's wifi chip(or part of a chip that does wifi) would need to support AP mode (access point mode) where in it receives and routes multiple wifi connections' data between each other and the GPRS hardware. As far as anyone's been able to tell, the wifi capabilities in the phone are limited to single-connection only, so allowing multiple devices to connect (or even 1, unless the desired device can get internet via adhoc or bluetooth) is not possible.
You can use the WiFi connection sharing. What it does is take your EDGE or 3G connection and set your phone up as an "access point". I put that in parenthesis because it creates an "ad-hoc" network that only certain devices can detect and connect to. Ad-Hoc is a device to device network, where the normal is infrastructure mode. Also being the device it is, I'm not sure if it's going to be an intelligent network device, IE.. iTunes music sharing between local connected clients. But you can most certainly share your connection with your laptops or desktops if they have WiFi. I'll see if I can find the cab for you and post it here.
EDIT: Here you go... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4175565&postcount=90
Cool. I will look into that! I pretty much only have one computer running at a time these days, and the EDGE connection isn't all that fast to be sharing it among multiple computers anyway.
why...
Hi,
Not sure if i understand... why would someone use the "crappy" internet connection of a phone to get internet access to your home network...
It's 2009. Why not get a decent cable or DSL account
jeen said:
Hi,
Not sure if i understand... why would someone use the "crappy" internet connection of a phone to get internet access to your home network...
It's 2009. Why not get a decent cable or DSL account
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$ 30.00 for your phone data connection + $ 45.00 for your home cable/DSL connection = $75.00 per month, as opposed to just $30.00 for both.
To some people $ 45 dollars a month is a lot of money to save no matter how slow the connection is.
I am no expert but I found this software here a while ago and really liked it. There is an older version that is legally free but the new one is pay, try the trial.
http://www.wmwifirouter.com/
-Max
jeen said:
Hi,
Not sure if i understand... why would someone use the "crappy" internet connection of a phone to get internet access to your home network...
It's 2009. Why not get a decent cable or DSL account
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Or you're like me and cant get anything but satellite internet where I live, which is way more expensive. Yet I get 3G just fine =)
WMWifiRouter
I like WMWifiRouter pretty well. It drains my battery like crazy, but when I have my phone plugged in, it's okay. Without being plugged in, my battery loses about 20% over ten minutes. Also, the free version doesn't really come with any admin features. The router is public and there's no way to see who's connected. Other than that, it's great!

N1 - 5GHz Wifi?

Does the N1 have 5GHz wifi like the Samsung?
My home LAN is 5GHz only, so I don't disturb the neighbors with my video streaming.
No, 2.4 only...
Ugh.
OK so I turned on the router's 2.4GHz, but with broadcast SSID off. My N1 wouldn't even try to connect. So I turned on router SSID and it connects AES.
I do -not- want SSID broadcast on, as Windows machines' lazy active scan will find me. Sure they'll never get in, but I do not want broadcast on.
Has anyone succeeded in connecting with it off?
When I am connected wifi and open a website on the phone, does it go over wifi preferred over 3G?
I want to share the SD card with a machine on the LAN. What's the best way to do this? FTP? Reverse SSH tunnel? Is there a sshfs for Android? EDIT: NM on this one.
Yes, I remember connecting to a WiFi with SSID off, when I had Nexus.
It is pointless to keep SSID Broadcasting off. It is super easy to find your SSID anyway, and it causes all sorts of additional problems (like the one you are seeing above). Just keep the network secure and it makes life a lot easier.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2865...hiding-your-wireless-ssid-really-more-secure/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/steriley/archive/2007/10/16/myth-vs-reality-wireless-ssids.aspx
Ok, but sure passive scanners like Kismet will still see me, however 90% of scans are done with an active scanner like Winduhs. Of course I'm using WPA2-AES, but I want to take every measure possible.
Now I find that whenever I have the phone connected to wifi, I lose -all- internet access. Just times out. 3G is still on and wifi is showing connected, but I can't get to websites. As soon as I turn off Wifi I can access the internet again through 3G.
With wifi I -can- access the wireless router's setup webpage from my phone, which tells me I am working through wifi, and I can remotely mount the phone filesystem on a LAN machine using sshfs, but I can not reach anything outside. Any idea why?
Does anyone know whether, when it's working right, it uses the wifi connection in preference over 3G?
The WiFi is ALWAYS preferred to 3G, which means - when you're connected to WiFi, all the internet traffic is routed through WiFi.
I don't understand then, why all data traffic stops to the outside when wifi is connected. The rest of my LAN gets outside fine, just not the phone.
If you can see LAN computers and exchange data with them - it's not the phone that's making problems. See if you have any restrictions in your router.
Oh FFS, my fault...
I set my IP statically for my LAN, and through some alert troubleshooting I found I can ping IPs outside but not DNs. I'd mis-set the DNS server in wifi settings. Now it works great!
I can now use sshdroid to mount my phone's filesystem on my LAN securely. Now, if I could only get it to wifi associate with beacon off...
It would also be nice to mount a filesystem on my LAN to the phone, although I consider the phone unsecure and question the wisdom of that, even with DroidWall running.
There is a market app that lets you connect to a hidden ssid
Sent from my Nexus One using Tapatalk
Cool, but Market is FCing on me. I did a complete reinstall of the newest MIUI.us, and now Market's FCing again. So can't install any Market apps.
As someone else said, turning SSID off is pointless. It's like taking the numbers off the outside of your house and thinking people driving by won't see your house sitting there.
Apparently you didn't understand what I said here:
Quantumstate said:
Ok, but sure passive scanners like Kismet will still see me, however 90% of scans are done with an active scanner like Winduhs. Of course I'm using WPA2-AES, but I want to take every measure possible.
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If nothing else, please just respect my decision in this regard, or give valid proof that active scanners are not the preponderance.

Wireless problems

Hi, I hope there are some experts here regarding wireless connections here.
Whenever I connect with my OP3T (OOS Beta6) and supposedly strain the connection by downloading stuff in games, my connection gets lost, and every other PC/notebook will won't have connection either anymore until I reset the Wlan signal on the router.
I tried to use a wifi analyzing tool, switched channels, doesn't help. It only supports 2.4Ghz also, maybe a factor?
On the phone, I activated detailed protcolling and always get following statements.
Code:
network_selection_disabled_association_rejection =2
network_selection_disabled_authentication_Failure =2
network_selection_disabled_association_rejection =1
What's the issue? Is the Router too weak, or what can I do with the OP3T to not kill the Wlan?
It's really annoying, I cannot really use Wifi with the phone.
Oh, additional info: So far it is just a game, Real Racing 3, which kills my router.
When downloading apps from Google Playstore or testing the internetspeed, everything is fine.
This is not the phone that's causing it, rather some strange bug with your router. It only has 2.4GHz? You probably should get yourself a more modern router in that case.

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