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Is anyone getting reasonable speed out of their Kaiser when using it as a modem?
I'm on an unlimited data plan with 7.2 mbps HDSPA.
With my USB modem suppled by the operator I usually get around 4-5 mbps or so.
With the Kaiser I can never reach more than 1.2 mbps to be pretty much exact.
Even worse is surfing on the actual Kaiser, I never reach over 0.8 mbps and in general it feels just as slow as my crappy old first gen 3G phone from Sony Ericsson.
Between the video driver debacle, poor bluetooth implementation and the poor data performance I'm quite inclined to just return the phone before my 30 days of return policy are up...
I live in the Atlanta, Ga. Metro area. I have noticed that my internet speed would start out at normal speed then get very very slow after a few minutes. I tried some speed tests and the First two Test gets 1250 Kbits, then the speed drops to 200 Kbits and stays there as long as I am connected. If I wait a bit and reconnect, I get the same pattern, a fast connection then an 80% drop in speed.
Is anyone else experiancing this problen on AT%T??
I'm in Atlanta too, but I haven't really noticed that discrepancy.
Your title is pretty much nonsense.
Perhaps what you meant to say was "AT&T's network is so overloaded the speed randomy drops 80%".
Howard Forums has a lot in this regard. AT&T is just overloaded. They've made some adjustments, and it's helped. 4-6 weeks ago I couldn't even download a file without it completely stalling most of the time, now it usually finishes, although probably slower.
Supposedly It's a known problem and it's being resolved as soon as they get to it. I assume it means additional upgrades to infrastructure.
khaytsus said:
Your title is pretty much nonsense.
Perhaps what you meant to say was "AT&T's network is so overloaded the speed randomy drops 80%".
Howard Forums has a lot in this regard. AT&T is just overloaded. They've made some adjustments, and it's helped. 4-6 weeks ago I couldn't even download a file without it completely stalling most of the time, now it usually finishes, although probably slower.
Supposedly It's a known problem and it's being resolved as soon as they get to it. I assume it means additional upgrades to infrastructure.
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NO Nonsense, what I meant to say was "AT&T cutting 3G speed by 80%" and there is nothing random about it. I can consistantly log on at any time and do one or two speed tests at 1200 mbs then the speed drops to 200 Kbs until I log off. Then log on again and get 1200 Kbs and the speed is dropped to 200 Kbs again. They appear to be detecting large blocks of data and cutting your speed down substantually.
I noticed that if you use wap.cingular as your APN, it does seem to be a bit slower. Luckily for me, I have an actual data connect plan and am able to set up my APN as isp.cingular. Maybe its a PLACEBO, but if im not mistaken, the server that ALL of the Iphone data runs through is the wap.cingular, freeing up the other APN for me . Also, change your dns to an opendns server as that may help with some of the initial latencies. I for some reason have NEVER had an issue with the whole proxy setting dilemma ( maybe because of my specific data plan ) but this may also bottleneck your data too
Hope some of this helps
Dude if my 3G dropped to 200 mbits, I'd be a happy camper.
Is it just me or are you confusing your numbers? If that was the case you could download a file at 20 Megabytes per second after TCP overhead initially then it would drop to 2 MB/s. Now I logically think you either added an extra 0 or two or you ment kilobits.
Chainfire said:
Dude if my 3G dropped to 200 mbits, I'd be a happy camper.
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Dude if I had a Kaiser and a Diamond and Touch Pro I would be a happy camper
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Dude if my 3G dropped to 200 mbits, I'd be a happy camper.
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It wont be long before cellular communications reach that speed ( I hope lol )
Also, does anyone else use the isp.cingular APN and notice a diff, or is it just all in my head lol
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Dude if I had a Kaiser and a Diamond and Touch Pro I would be a happy camper
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LOL, you just implement tables in the signature and up the maximum size so I can list all my other devices too, and I'll be almost as happy a camper as having 200mbit 3G
(doing mobile software for a living does have some benefits...)
Chainfire said:
LOL, you just implement tables in the signature and up the maximum size so I can list all my other devices too, and I'll be almost as happy a camper as having 200mbit 3G
(doing mobile software for a living does have some benefits...)
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Yes it does.
Hopefully by Monday I will order my AT&T Fuze and then join the ranks of the elite
Will see you in the Raphael forum my brother
Speed is a real issue no 3G and it's likely going to get worse when the Bold is released on 11/4. Here's an explanation of the problem: http://tiltmobility.com/2008/09/speculations-and-networks/
MrObvious said:
Is it just me or are you confusing your numbers? If that was the case you could download a file at 20 Megabytes per second after TCP overhead initially then it would drop to 2 MB/s. Now I logically think you either added an extra 0 or two or you ment kilobits.
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you are right, I meant Kbps.
I use the wap.cingular network and have noticed slower speeds, can someone give me the open dns numbers to plug in?
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I use the wap.cingular network and have noticed slower speeds, can someone give me the open dns numbers to plug in?
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Try this .cab DNS included
neely30188 said:
I live in the Atlanta, Ga. Metro area. I have noticed that my internet speed would start out at normal speed then get very very slow after a few minutes. I tried some speed tests and the First two Test gets 1250 megabits, then the speed drops to 200 megabits and stays there as long as I am connected. If I wait a bit and reconnect, I get the same pattern, a fast connection then an 80% drop in speed.
Is anyone else experiancing this problen on AT%T??
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I'm also in metro Atlanta, but I'm not seeing that. However in recent weeks, I have noticed HSDPA coverage has expanded a bit -- I'm getting it in places I never did before.
Also, your speed figures sound about 1000x higher than I've seen; perhaps you mean kilobits/sec?
I would love to have those speeds. Most of the time where I live the edge is faster than 3G.
I would just love to have 3g in general. Edge only. My sling box is sad
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I'm also in metro Atlanta, but I'm not seeing that. However in recent weeks, I have noticed HSDPA coverage has expanded a bit -- I'm getting it in places I never did before.
Also, your speed figures sound about 1000x higher than I've seen; perhaps you mean kilobits/sec?
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Yes, as every one has noticed, I did mean kbits.
Where in the Atlanta area have you noticed HSDPA? I move around Atlanta quite a bit and have never seen the "H" on my phone. I looked all over the AT&T site and did not find a coverage map for HSDA. Have you seen it any where around the Alpharetta/Woodstock area?
I am a new user of a Samsung Captivate on AT&T, right now I'm not rooted and running the stock software, I generally love the phone, it's much better than my iPhone 3GS and I don't have many issues, except that my upload speed is slow.
I got tired of dropped calls on my iphone and my knowledge of other non-iphone AT&T users seems to indicate that the iphone is the problem with dropped call, the captivate holds on to a call, MUCH better than my old iphone and the download speeds are good, streaming music at High Quality via audiogalaxy is working great.
So I don't think their is anything wrong with my phone.
Testing the phone at work, which is generally has excellent reception for AT&T. I get 1.5 - 2mbps down, which is about what I used to get on my iPhone. But I only get around 150kbps up, my 3GS was even much faster than that in this location usually averaging 250kbps and this phone is supposed an upload speed closer to the iPhone 4 I believe.
Any captivate users on AT&T have a similar issue?
I'm in a terrible reception area at work - would need to test at home...
Currently 128k Down and 256k up
I'm kind of wondering if it's a problem left over from moving my sim from my iphone3GS to the samsung captivate, I had to call to get them to change a data plan and to reset my voicemail to the standard old school voicemail.
I've been using the phone for a week and I've never gone over 250kbps with this phone, but according to the specs I should be getting much better upload speeds.
In central NJ AT&T is actually pretty good and we have consistent 3G coverage, so I it's not like I'm out in the boonies somewhere and that's why my upload is slow.
Guess I should call AT&T.
Your upload speed is normally much lower than your download speed. If you were to do the same test on your broadband at home, you would get maybe if you are lucky 3 mega up for every 30 mega down.
Its how all isps are. The problem is not because of your sim. Also keep in mind that a heavily congested area (new York) will always have bad speeds. The more people with data hogging devices, the slower speeds you will see.
Try doing the bandwidth test again in the middle of.the night or early morning when most people are asleep. You might see some very nice speeds then.
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I got my answer
I didn't realize that AT&T disabled HSUPA, I just knew the hardware supported it. and since I'm on the stock firmware that is what is keeping me at 150 - 250kbps.
Thanks for the help guys, it wasn't a big thing like I said but I wanted to know if the problem was my old sim card.
Is there anything like this for our captivate?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087729
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11318194&postcount=7
They seemed interesting and here in dallas im getting anywhere from .10 Mbps to 2.1 Mbps...
anyone might have a better setting for these?
That is just enabling HSUPA, which many ROMs do.
If you want it to work for data and not degrade call quality considerably, you must either be on a I9000 ROM or using CM7/MIUI
Oh... so since im using phoenix rom I shouldnt worry about it? =/
Bummer thought I could get faster speed than 1.5 MBPS in Dallas...
Thank you.
sixk said:
Oh... so since im using phoenix rom I shouldnt worry about it? =/
Bummer thought I could get faster speed than 1.5 MBPS in Dallas...
Thank you.
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Upon further review... it looks like the OP of that thread got some positive results tweaking those settings in build.prop
However others got mixed results.
I tested it out quickly and got a slight improvement in download speed but slight decrease in upload speed. I will try it again in a different area this evening, though, because I am testing it in a building with a metal roof and spotty coverage...
I've played around with this the last few months. I've had mixed results. Sometimes it seemed like it got me an increase sometimes not so much. I'm in a rural area and as such I have never seen 5Mbps down. I have seen as high as 4.30 Mbps once in a blue moon mostly after midnight. Its certainly a plausible idea but I cannot say with definite certainty that this will give a speed increase.
I tried it out too but it seems like it is depended on the time and traffic of the server...
Ive seen from .5 to 2.9 on my cappy...
edit: any other results or test to see if there might be a better setting?
Also just updated mine to mosaic.
trickery
I tried putting them in my Nostalgia 1.4 build.prop. See if it makes difference.
sixk said:
Is there anything like this for our captivate?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1087729
or
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11318194&postcount=7
They seemed interesting and here in dallas im getting anywhere from .10 Mbps to 2.1 Mbps...
anyone might have a better setting for these?
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I'm in frisco and just hit 3 mbs. Get that in both Denton and here. Have seen as much as 4.5 in both.
I'm on the border of Dallas/Richardson and I get terrible speeds on my Cap. At home I get around 200KBPS if I am lucky. On Monday I was in Frisco with a friend who has an HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon, his 3G speeds were 7000KBPS down while his 4G was 1.7MBPS down. In Frisco I did receive 400KBPS down - wonderful right?
I just tested again at work here in Richardson and out of three test I had network failures. The one test that worked was 67kbps down. This is using HSDPA and a signal strength of -75 dBm 19 asu.
I'm using the newest version of Cognition on my phone. Calls have good clarity and when I am using wifi I get 1.5MBPS down. I don't know why my data service is so bad.
Update: So after typing this post and tested again and got 643kbps down 76 up. I haven't moved from my desk.
That's wild. Metropcs speeds is what you got.
Worst area for me is Rockwall. But at&t is kinda non existent out there.
i'm also on andromeda but got same results on other roms as well.
This is my first smartphone on AT&T and because of where I work I was allowed to get a unlimited data package.
I might try another kernel and modem. Its pretty frustrating that my speeds are so slow.
I'm in Fort Worth and I usually average 4mb down 1.2mb up. I'm also running Phoenix Unleashed 8 with JK4
What is your settings at?
if you did the mod.
I am running stock 2.2 and don't use 3g a whole lot (usually attached to Wifi one way or another), but reading this post I figured I would try running a few tests. With 3 bars of signal strength I got a download speed varying between .86 mbps and 2.07 mbps down over six tests. Upload was never much more than about .40 mbps though. At home my Wifi runs around 9 mbps to just over about 17 mbps for download on the Captivate. The is in north GA, not near a major metropolis or anything.
Im curious about rpicaso's setting for this. Im gettin about the same speed as you bytheme.... i want to be faster!!! haha
Wish it worked.
Rockwall has pretty bad 3G coverage. I have better 2G coverage than 3G at home, so I usually stick to 2G+WiFi. 3G seemed to draining my battery.
I usually pickup towers from across the lake in Rowlett.
gibson3659 said:
Rockwall has pretty bad 3G coverage. I have better 2G coverage than 3G at home, so I usually stick to 2G+WiFi. 3G seemed to draining my battery.
I usually pickup towers from across the lake in Rowlett.
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Maybe they'll build it up when bush gets finished. I don't get how they have no 3g in Rockwall. I'm in Krum (little po dunk town nw of Denton) right now and getting 3 mbs. Rockwall is a good size city with money.
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Maybe they'll build it up when bush gets finished. I don't get how they have no 3g in Rockwall. I'm in Krum (little po dunk town nw of Denton) right now and getting 3 mbs. Rockwall is a good size city with money.
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but there's a lot of money in Krum...
Not so much up in Gainesville, but we get a good 1.5-2 mbps
Rate this thread to express how you think the LG Nexus 5X's Wifi performs. A higher rating indicates that it has excellent range, throughput, and signal strength. Like when you're taking a dump in the bedroom upstairs, do your videos have to buffer or do they come through without interruption?
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Again, plastic case, this means that your signals will be good. No metals in the way.
Before my N5x is had an iPhone 5c.
Also plastic, but there is a big difference in signal strength. N5X has much better range.
Sidenote:
My tp-link 5GHz router will crash once in a while only the 5GHz band does this.
This started since I use the N5x
I owned the Nexus 5x for 7 hours now.
And I'm deeply disappointed in the WiFi part - constantly getting maximum 50 kb/s wherever i go. No matter which wifi network, no matter which band im using, and no matter which signal strength.
Probably a failure of something hardware-wise, as i tried reflashing the firmware.
:/
My Wi-Fi is great. Just ran Speed Test and got 30Mbps download.
Does anyone else have the problem of WiFi randomly droping? I have had this issue since I received the phone. The problem has also been consistant through different ROMs. I was using Stock, Cataclysm, BlissPop and Pure Nexus which is my current ROM.
Very satisfied about the WiFi speed at home, this the highest speed so far:
D: 94.11 Mbps
U: 96.02 Mbps
This is on 5Ghz with the router one floor above me, nearly got the full speed of my ISP (100Mb fiber)
StomaNL said:
Very satisfied about the WiFi speed at home, this the highest speed so far:
D: 94.11 Mbps
U: 96.02 Mbps
This is on 5Ghz with the router one floor above me, nearly got the full speed of my ISP (100Mb fiber)
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What kind/model wifi router are you using? What are the ping speeds on your speed test?
Mine gets choppy speeds and they drop and pick up even during the test. I did multiple network resets and a full phone reset, but still the same! My home network is solid getting 90+mbps DL with 17ms ping on my S6 and Xperia Z5.
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I've got a Draytek Vigor2132 viber model modem that can only run 2.4Ghz, as a extension for the upper floor I've got a Tenda N60 with AdvancedTomato firmware running 5Ghz.
I'm getting a average ping of 15, on my PC this is lower. Maybe you got some kind of interference from a other network, you can use the app Wifi Analyser to see of you router/modem runs the optimal channel for your situation. If you neightbours are using the same channel as you signal quality will drop.