Since I bought this phone, I always had problems with my wifi when moving it into landscape mode. I had 2-3 línes of range and as soon as I let It like that, the Wifi went down. I realized then that the cause of that problem wasn't that but moving the whole hand near the antenna, landscaped or not. It's really annoying. But the thing is this problem only happens with 2.4GHz but not with 5GHz wifi. Unfortunately I have range issues with this frecuency (More about distance of router).
Do you experience the same issue? Just try It: Wifi 2.4GHz, 2lines of range, and the whole hand over the antenna, like if you were holding it watching a vídeo or playing.
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Does anybody know how to improve the tilt's Wifi Range? I have to be practically sitting on top of my router for wifi to work. I literally go behind a wall, or over 20 feet away, and I can't connect.
hmm i dun seem to have that problem i have my router set in the basement and i'm in my room on the top floor...two levels up and i dont have any problem connecting
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Does anybody know how to improve the tilt's Wifi Range? I have to be practically sitting on top of my router for wifi to work. I literally go behind a wall, or over 20 feet away, and I can't connect.
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I had the similar issue. I believe it might be the router issue. I had to set the router to use different channel. After I did that, it seems connecting without issue.
However, previously, I could connect my other wireless devices when I was far away from the router. However, it does not work well with tilt thou.
no issues here, excellent range and speed.
move the slider in the "battery saving - better performance" to "better performance" (dunno how they're called in the English roms but the idea is clear) in the wifi options and it should improve
you can increase the power in the "Wireless LAN" (in settings/connections) and go to the "power mode" and drag it to max performance (you'll loose some battery life).
Otherwise try reseating the router to a more central area, and move any microwaves and cordless phones that are close to it. Or get a better router.
(soz i have just repeated what Gpx85 just said as he posted just before me)
I think I will try the "Router Channel" issue. That sounds promising, as the other stuff I have already attempted.
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it!
Actually, I also did to reseat my router and increased the performance from WMob.
The range isn't as good as a laptop with integrated antenna. This is to be expected, as the Kaiser has a smaller, lower gain antenna. About 40 feet away through one floor and a couple of walls I get 1-2 bars, vs 2-3 from my Laptop with Intel a/b/g wireless.
I put CM7 on it the first night I got it so I can't say for sure if it was this way stock, but my Nook Color barely sees my wifi router an won't connect. My LG G2x phone gets 30-50% signal and my Sony VPC1280 laptop gets full signal (it's got fantastic wifi reception).
Is this typical? Well below average wifi reception?
I may need to get a repeater or something. Moving the main router closer to the area I want to use is not an option.
I'm not sure about the wifi reception in general for the NC but for me it works as well as my laptop which is pretty darn good.
My NC connects just fine to my wifi router at home (can't remember brand/model unfortunately), but the transfer rates are pretty bad (3 down, <1 up). My G2 phone gets very good transfer rates (9 down, 3 up). Not sure how to make it better.
I have the same problem... my NC has trouble picking up a WiFi signal in certain places in my house that my other WiFi devices don't.
My guess is that the WiFi antenna is placed where my hands block while holding it or I just have too much interference in my home.
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I looked and I could not find info on this issue. I have just used WiFi at home in the past with the Note 3 and it was fine. Here is some history of the changes:
- Old home WiFi was single band wireless N (53mbps) with a second repeater hot spot. This worked well with the Note 3.
- Had issues with the router so I upgraded to a dual band ac router and removed the second hot spot. So now it is just the new router for the whole house.
- Issues now - receive 2 bars at the far end of the house and basic WiFi is OK. Watching You Tube is an issue and it loads, plays for a few seconds, loads more etc.
I don't see a way to tell if I am on ac or wireless N. I was going to try to switch to wireless N and see if that helped but I can't see a way to do this? This router is way faster than my old one so I thought speed would not be an issue. no one else is using the wireless in the house. I would think that 2 bars would be strong enough? I think that wireless N would have a better range so that is why I wanted to try that. I am assuming that I am connecting to ac. Any thoughts?
thx in advance
AC routers have two separate ssid's. One for b,g,n. And another for 5G band. The 5G band default ssid is the same as the other with "5G" at the end. 5G band doesn't have good range, but it has faster speed between connected devices. 5G won't have faster internet unless you have a 100mb download speed. Which is unlikely. So your YouTube issue is either your modem, or a Qos setting in the router. If your router is at default settings it's definitely your modem.
You might be able to get more support on this subject thru a forum for your router, or modem.
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Hi Everyone
I looked and I could not find info on this issue. I have just used WiFi at home in the past with the Note 3 and it was fine. Here is some history of the changes:
- Old home WiFi was single band wireless N (53mbps) with a second repeater hot spot. This worked well with the Note 3.
- Had issues with the router so I upgraded to a dual band ac router and removed the second hot spot. So now it is just the new router for the whole house.
- Issues now - receive 2 bars at the far end of the house and basic WiFi is OK. Watching You Tube is an issue and it loads, plays for a few seconds, loads more etc.
I don't see a way to tell if I am on ac or wireless N. I was going to try to switch to wireless N and see if that helped but I can't see a way to do this? This router is way faster than my old one so I thought speed would not be an issue. no one else is using the wireless in the house. I would think that 2 bars would be strong enough? I think that wireless N would have a better range so that is why I wanted to try that. I am assuming that I am connecting to ac. Any thoughts?
thx in advance
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why not use your old router from your old home as a repeater? wouldn't that work?
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- Issues now - receive 2 bars at the far end of the house and basic WiFi is OK. Watching You Tube is an issue and it loads, plays for a few seconds, loads more etc.
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That's called buffering and it's due to low thruput (which is different than speed). It can be caused by low signal strength (due to distance or to the signal haveing to go through too much along the path), noise between the router and the phone, interference with someone else's wifi signal ...
You need at least a couple of apps like Signal Check Lite and Wifi Analytics to see what's going on. Guessing isn't going to give you a solution.
So today I started having a strange issue with my Droid Turbo. The WiFi speeds are absolutely abysmal. Everything was fine in the morning. Then I went out for a while and got home around 4, and my phone wouldn't connect to the WiFi. I finally got it to connect, but nothing was loading, so I ran a speed test and saw that I was getting < 1Mbps down and up. This was really strange because I usually get 50 up and 25 down. All my other devices work, including 3 laptops, 2 iPhones, a note 2, an iPad, and a Chromecast. My router is an ASUS Google OnHub, and I used my Turbo to set it up. LTE works fine. I've already tried the basic steps, including a cache partition clear, but nothing is working. Any idea what's going on?
Edit: so I did some testing and found out that if I hold my phone right up to the router it will give me the full speed. Once i move a few feet away it drops significantly. However, my phone still reports the signal strength as "excellent". I also tried this with a different network somewhere else, this time with a Cisco router, and the results were the same.
My wife's phone had all sorts of issues recently with Wifi on her Turbo. Longer story short, we found it was related to interference with her bluetooth (also on 2.4GHz) and possibly interference from neighbors. I'm not sure what changed, but I had her on 2.4GHz and she had all sorts of issues. I moved her to 5GHz which has resolved the issues (though it's much shorter range now, too). Turning off bluetooth seemed to help... but it didn't resolve it completely. The phone would say it was connected, but it wouldn't actually function online. We do live in an apartment complex with LOTS of 2.4GHz users and interference, so something in someone else's apartment may be interfering... obviously I'm not going to be able to figure that out with so many neighbors! Also, we have an Asus router... so that's why I figured maybe something is up with Asus's code or something, too... making more sensitive to interference?
Update: So I noticed that my phone was only connecting to the 2.4 GHz band, which is strange because everything else would connect to the 5GHz band. I messed around a bit and I found out that the range was just too short. When I placed my phone on top of my router, it would connect to the 5GHz band. As soon as I walked away, it would disconnect. So this leads me to believe that the wifi antenna inside my phone got messed up somehow.
Here is how I have my home network setup:
Uverse Gateway (Wifi 2.4GHz SSID=2wireXXX, currently off) (NAT/router 192.168.1.X)(6Mbps data plan)(other Uverse TV boxes are connected via coax)
---Netgear R6250 AC (Gigabit) (as Wifi Access Point 2.4GHz SSID=tesla, 5GHz SSID=tesla5g)
------Gigabit Switch (to TV/BluRay/laptop/etc)
~~~~Wifi Devices (lots of android phones/tablets/roku/etc)
---Netgear Arlo Hub (dedicated wifi to 4 cameras)(seems these like to force themselves to same channel as router, makes no sense?)
---SmartThings Hub (Zwave 900MHz)
---AT&T MicroCell (currently off)
I am getting some dropouts in Wifi lately and looking for some help to see if I have everything configured/connected in most efficient way. 2 kids are usually on tablets playing Minecraft/NBAlive/watching Youtube cooking videos Son has been complaining about wifi a lot lately. I don't think it has been too bad, but I also notice spinning icon on ipad title bar near Wifi occasionally. I've been doing speed tests via google, when everything is quiet I get 6-8Mbps. One kid on youtube drops it ~2Gbps. Occasionally when I get that spinning icon, speed test only gets 0.5Mbps for unknown reason. Recently when this happened I jumped on cat5 connected computer and immediately got 7Mbps.... uverse seems okay.
Home is 2 story, wood, with full basement. All of this (except the switch and wifi devices) is in one cabinet at North end of my house, near main living area. Kitchen, Bedroom are on south end of house (which is about 55feet) so get poor coverage there (phone charging area and bedroom Roku have por signal). Obviously moving it all to the middle of house would cover everything better, but don't have a good spot to place everything at middle of main floor. I have a basement with drop ceiling that I could relocate some stuff too but need to pull cat5 and power there, just under first floor decking.
I had the kids tablets and older devices on 2.4GHz and only a few newer/faster/work devices on 5GHz. Moved my son to 5GHz recently, too soon to tell if it helps his issues.
-Do I have too many devices in one cabinet (as far as number of radio transceivers)? Heat doesn't seem to be problem, not sealed and doesn't feel too hot.
-Would it help to move R2650 to middle of house and turn back on the Uverse wifi? Put kids on 2.4GHz. To minimize re-wiring, I'd probably change the devices to this order: Uverse---GigabitSwitch---NetgearR6250; I think this maintains Gigabit speed inside house.
-I also have another even older Netgear 2.4GHz B(or G?) router, should I put this at other end of house all on same SSID? So I could have three 2.4GHz access points which all appear to be same network (?????). Then just have 5GHz for the important devices (my wife and I).
-What are some ways to monitor/debug this??? I'd like an app to see which devices are using most data throughput at any given moment and total per day. Tried Netgear Genie App but it is pretty limited. Is the only way to use router with custom firmware?
Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers to help!!!