5Ghz Wireless Performance? - AT&T Note 7 Questions & Answers

What is everyone getting as far as their 5Ghz wireless performance? I understand everyone's connections are different, but in general, is it on par with what you expected?
I have 1Gbps home internet with a Linksys EA 8500 Router (MU-MIMO), 4x4 AC). When I do my speedtests by isolating the Note 7 as the only connected device, I get much lower speeds than my Note 5 to the tune of about 100Mbps. I test on the same server, same time of day, same speedtest app etc. So, I am curious if everyone is happy with their wifi performance.
Thanks in advance.

2.4 is better unless u getting interference then use 5.

I pay for 125 mbps down and 10 up, getting 122 down and 12 up on 5ghz. This is while in the same room as router tho.

The differences between 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wireless
The primary difference between the 2.4 GHz and 5GHz wireless frequencies is range as the 2.4GHz frequency is able to reach farther than the 5GHz frequency. This is a result of the basic characteristics that waves attenuate much faster at higher frequencies. So if you are more concerned with the coverage, you should select 2.4GHz rather than 5GHz.
The second difference is the number of devices on the frequencies. 2.4GHz suffers more interference than 5GHz.
The older 11g standard only uses the 2.4GHz frequency, majority of the world is on it. 2.4 GHz has fewer channel options with only three of them non-overlapping, while 5GHz has 23 non-overlapping channels.
A lot of other devices are also on the 2.4 GHz frequencies, the biggest offenders are microwaves and cordless phones. These devices add noise to the medium that can further decrease the speed of wireless networks.
In both aspects, choosing to deploy on the 5GHz frequency is the much better option as you have more channels to use to isolate yourself from other networks and there are far fewer interference sources.
But the radar and military frequency is also 5GHz, so 5GHz wireless may also have some interference, and many countries require that wireless devices working on 5GHz should support DFS(Dynamic Frequency Selection) and TPC(Transmitting Power Control).
Summary:
5GHz has a shorter range compared with 2.4GHz;
The 2.4GHz frequency is way more crowded than 5GHz, devices on 2.4GHz suffer much more interference than the ones on 5GHz;
Fewer devices are capable of using the 5GHz channel than the 2.4GHz channel.
If there is too much interference around and your clients support 5GHz, it’s recommended to use 5GHz wireless network, otherwise you’d better select 2.4GHz.

I'm getting 364 mb down and 165 mb upload
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Yeah something is wrong with the 5 ghz... On my Note 5 I could hit 400-560 mbps down and 300-400 up. Now struggling to get 205-230 mbps down and 350 up on Note 7..Both say a link connection speed of 866 mbps.

Markieb said:
Yeah something is wrong with the 5 ghz... On my Note 5 I could hit 400-560 mbps down and 300-400 up. Now struggling to get 205-230 mbps down and 350 up on Note 7..Both say a link connection speed of 866 mbps.
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Thanks much. About exactly what I am experiencing as well.
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Whats so funny? Must be your useless post about wifi frequencies and interference?

What's so funny is the rambling about the same stuff about 5ghz like it's better because it's a bigger number

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What's so funny is the rambling about the same stuff about 5ghz like it's better because it's a bigger number
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Well, considering 2.4ghz can not (better said-does not) support ac, I'd say 5ghz is better for high speeds, as ac is capable of much higher downstream speeds than N.
I'm sorry, but you were the one rambling. The original queation was if 5ghz band on the note 7 was performing as expected. Apologies if I wasnt clear enough.
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Well, considering 2.4ghz can not (better said-does not) support ac, I'd say 5ghz is better for high speeds, as ac is capable of much higher downstream speeds than N.
I'm sorry, but you were the one rambling. The original queation was if 5ghz band on the note 7 was performing as expected. Apologies if I wasnt clear enough.
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Honestly this is what is wrong with America, do not apologize for this guys ignorance. Its obvious from his very 1st reply; his tiny whittle bitty brain couldn't phantom the dialogue taking place. In other words this guy doesn't know jack sh**. Excuse the sharpness but its annoying seeing a person spout bs when I know for sure Im not crazy and Samsung has a issue here. Im not even mentioning my LTE performance... At my desk in my bed room the Note 5 could hit easily hit 60-100 Mbps on LTE, this Note 7 struggles to hit 60 Mbps. Hows your LTE by the way?

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Honestly this is what is wrong with America, do not apologize for this guys ignorance. Its obvious from his very 1st reply; his tiny whittle bitty brain couldn't phantom the dialogue taking place. In other words this guy doesn't know jack sh**. Excuse the sharpness but its annoying seeing a person spout bs when I know for sure Im not crazy and Samsung has a issue here. Im not even mentioning my LTE performance... At my desk in my bed room the Note 5 could hit easily hit 60-100 Mbps on LTE, this Note 7 struggles to hit 60 Mbps. Hows your LTE by the way?
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No worries, I was frustrated as well!
Probably should have added a sarcasm emoji after the apology lol.
Well, I only get about 20Mbps down and about 5Mbps up where we live over LTE. My Note 5 had the same struggle, though. My signal shows pretty weak most of the time while at home, even outside. I'll pull some speeds when I get back to Houston next week and see what it does. Of the major cities I travel through in Texas, Houston seems to be have the strongest speeds in my experience.
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Purchased note 7 , and I have this problem. Linksys ac1900 router. O have a note 5 and it sits side by side and there is a huge difference. Note 5 on 5ghz gets almost the full 100mb I get on my isp. The note 7 gets on the low end 6 mbps to a high of 30 mbps . Will try moving sims around later , but there is for sure a problem with this.
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Mine won't even connect to 5Ghz. Always connects using 2.4. I have an Asus AC 3100 router.

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Well, I only get about 20Mbps down and about 5Mbps up where we live over LTE.
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With respect, you refer to 20Mbps as "only?" What is that level of bandwidth not sufficient for on a mobile phone?

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With respect, you refer to 20Mbps as "only?" What is that level of bandwidth not sufficient for on a mobile phone?
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That's a fair question for sure.
I described it as "only" as a comparative term. In larger cities I used to see double those speeds. 20Mbps is sufficient for sure, but where's the fun in being sufficient lol!
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Just an update brought a POS ZTE and in the exact same location the LTE on it tops out around 70 mbps and on 2.4 gHz it does about the same.

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Vibrant 3G problem: DL slow and much slower then UL

And download is also much slower compared to other brands. Upload is always very fast (but who the hell needs it fast?). All things are upside down! It must be DL>>UL, but in addition to low DL speed we have DL<<UL !!!
This happen when it's the city with DL/UL speeds are in the 100-1000 Kbps range. If we in the cities with the advanced speeds in 1000-5000 Kbps range everything is normal, the DL>>UL
Do you have such strange unusual DL/UL discrepancy with DL<<UL?
Example of bad upside down DL/UL: 300 Kbps/800 Kbps
Example of good one: 800 Kbps/300 Kbps or 5000 Kbps/1500 Kbps
Have you noticed upside down DL/UL numbers in "bad" tests? DL must be larger
I've ran three Vibrant phones at the same place and time in the city where there is no good 3G speed.
Two of them are unusually painfully slow with download while upload is blazingly (relatively) fast. I was getting 100-300 kbps DL and 800-900 Kbps UL.
High speed UL indicates that we are close to the tower and having good signal but still the download speed unexpectedly sucks
Build date for slow phones is 07/07/2010, will double check tomorrow about faster one.
I use free Speedtest.net application from the Market.
Please do the test !
I get about the same speeds on this as I did on my N900.
Yes, that's what i call "good" case above: the "good" towers, latest equipment and great signal strengths. In such areas my Vibrant is also fine. Problem is in near "bad" towers which are still a majority of the country
seems normal to me since I've had the same type of speeds on both my hd2 and vibrant in areas where 3g quality is known to be poor.
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ryan562 said:
seems normal to me since I've had the same type of speeds on both my hd2 and vibrant in areas where 3g quality is known to be poor.
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My tests were in the T-Mo shop and we ran different other brand phones, including older ones. All of them were 2-3 times faster on download (and similar or somewhat slower on upload) compared to "bad" Vibrant phones! The one which was "good" Vibrant phone, was similarly fast to other brands.
Same story as i described it above is also in my house where i know the speed range in great details. HD2 shows 800-950 Kbps download speed, Vibrant 250-350 kbps. Near the good tower with 5 Mbps max speeds both of them are equal and work fine, the DL >>UL like it should be. So we probably have some sensitivity issues with Vibrant 3G radios or their settings at low signals
I use the Speedtest dot net application from the Market.
The web based one does not work because needs latest Flash
I have gotten similar dl slower than ul, when my bars are at 1, but most of the time I am very happy with my download speed.
I have gotten over 5Mbs dl with full bars.
The 3G reception on my phone has been quite unpredictable.
I live in the best 3G coverage area in my city. I'm blanketed in T-Mo towers on every side. Inside my house, if I don't touch the phone, I pull down 5Mbps+, and Upload at ~2-3Mbps. It's fast enough to tether and use as my primary connection. Latency is ~35-50ms. I can stream Hulu with no hiccups.
However, if I so much as touch the back of the device with a single finger, the 3G drops until it reverts to EDGE. This is with a silicon case, and I can replicate it every time.
So, that's super annoying. I don't know why this would happen, to be honest.
On top of those problems, I have occasionally run into the issues where my uploads are super fast (~3Mbps), but my downloads are miserable (~0.2Mbps). This usually happens in bigger buildings.
With 3G and 4 bars i get 726/1288 Dl/UL, it has been like that every since I received my phone. Albeit I have only used my phone in a small area so far. Tmobile coverage map says I should be able to take advantage of the HSPA+ speeds, but who knows how accurate those things are.
Have you tried to going in to the mobile network settings and resetting them?
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My tests were in the T-Mo shop and we ran different other brand phones, including older ones. All of them were 2-3 times faster on download (and similar or somewhat slower on upload) compared to "bad" Vibrant phones! The one which was "good" Vibrant phone, was similarly fast to other brands.
Same story as i described it above is also in my house where i know the speed range in great details. HD2 shows 800-950 Kbps download speed, Vibrant 250-350 kbps. Near the good tower with 5 Mbps max speeds both of them are equal and work fine, the DL >>UL like it should be. So we probably have some sensitivity issues with Vibrant 3G radios or their settings at low signals
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Have you tried to going in to the mobile network settings and resetting them?
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I do not see what we can change there besides roaming. The network is T-mob own one.
I've also noticed my up speed is 2-3x higher than my down speed. Kind of strange. I will have to remember to test it more when I am in different areas.
I get the same results sometimes. Most of the times I am getting download speeds greater than 4 Mb/s in HSPA+ coverage. Last night I decided to do a speed test with my Vibrant and my wifes MyTouch Slide. Both of them yielded the same exact results. I tested them 5 times in the same area and all 5 times I got around 350kb/s download and 1100kb/s upload.
Guess it's the network and not the phone.

Tmo 3g speeds...

OK, so before this phone I previously had a vibrant and then the mytouch4g. I live in a so called 4g area. The nexus s seems right in line with my vibrant and I can get a tick under 6mbps down. The upload here is faster on my nexus than the vibrant or the mytouch, at around 1.7mbps. The mytouch at Max could pull about 7.5mbps. I can't remember if I ever got more than that. I'm not making this threat to complain about the speeds of this phone.
My question is, if this phones radio can get a theoretical Max of 7.2mbps download, is that an unrealistic number even when the tower can pump out higher speeds? For example, the mytouch has a Max of 14.4mbps but even in a 4g area it never pulled down close to that. I'm thinking the speed of the radio is like alot of things where you have the theoretical Max and then you have the functional limit. Am I wrong saying that? Has anyone gotten a 7mbps download speed off the phone? Or conversely, if anyone has owned a g2 or mytouch4g, have you reached speeds anywhere close to those maxes? Is tmo even pumping out that much bandwidth yet?
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OK, so before this phone I previously had a vibrant and then the mytouch4g. I live in a so called 4g area. The nexus s seems right in line with my vibrant and I can get a tick under 6mbps down. The upload here is faster on my nexus than the vibrant or the mytouch, at around 1.7mbps. The mytouch at Max could pull about 7.5mbps. I can't remember if I ever got more than that. I'm not making this threat to complain about the speeds of this phone.
My question is, if this phones radio can get a theoretical Max of 7.2mbps download, is that an unrealistic number even when the tower can pump out higher speeds? For example, the mytouch has a Max of 14.4mbps but even in a 4g area it never pulled down close to that. I'm thinking the speed of the radio is like alot of things where you have the theoretical Max and then you have the functional limit. Am I wrong saying that? Has anyone gotten a 7mbps download speed off the phone? Or conversely, if anyone has owned a g2 or mytouch4g, have you reached speeds anywhere close to those maxes? Is tmo even pumping out that much bandwidth yet?
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closest ive gotten on my nexus is 6.5 down and 3 up
Wow that's an amazing upload speed!
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Wow that's an amazing upload speed!
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And i by no means live in a small city.
Corona is 30-40 mins from LA, population like 160,000 people. so it isnt some podunk town
Damn you live in corona and get those speeds? I'm down in temecula, but on ATT. I see around 3 Mbps but have been thinking of switching.
Anyway theoretical max is most always limited by the backhaul to the tower, depending on how many T1 or more connections it has. But you should be able to get pretty damn close to max if all things were right in the perfect conditions.
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Damn you live in corona and get those speeds? I'm down in temecula, but on ATT. I see around 3 Mbps but have been thinking of switching.
Anyway theoretical max is most always limited by the backhaul to the tower, depending on how many T1 or more connections it has. But you should be able to get pretty damn close to max if all things were right in the perfect conditions.
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ya the speeds out here are pretty damn good
You will definitely run into the limit of the processor using SpeedTest.
You can show this if your home DSL / cable is fast enough. I get 17-19Mbps down and .9mbps up over WiFi through my DSL (Free, in France, ASDL 2+, and I live 800m from my CO in Paris, I'm using WiFi N from an AirPort Extreme) using my MacBook Pro (core i7, 8GB RAM so it can take it. ), running SpeedTest to a Paris server in Chrome. Using the same WiFi, I can get up to 8.5mbps down and .9 up on my Nexus S, connecting to the same server through the SpeedTest App.
I therefore know that while my connection can support much higher speeds, the phone's hardware/software can't handle them. For reference, an iPhone 4, right next to the NS, pulls up to 6.9mbps down. My N1 can do about 6.5 at best, and my old faithful milestone at stock clocking couldn't do better than about 4.5. Given that the Hummingbird processor in the NS is at 1ghz, and the hardware-similar iPhone's A4 (the GPU, much better in the NS as a SGX540 versus the iPhone's SGX535, isn't engaged at all by speedtest) is running at roughly 750-800mhz, those scores seem to indicate that the processor is the bottleneck with this test on these devices. Idem for the N1 versus the Moto - it is generally 1.4x to 1.5x faster with most CPU kinds of stuff compared to the Milestone, and the 6.5 to 4.5 ratio tends to follow that. I can't tell you why the N1 is slower consistently than the iPhone 4 at this test over WiFi, but it most definitely is.
Over 3G, I get wildly variant service all over Paris. I've seen up to 6mbps with the iPhone 4, the NS, and the N1, and up to (still) about 4.5 with the Milestone.
3G radio signal is something else entirely - the Moto is by far the best, then the NS, and then you have to fall a long, long way before you get to the iPhone and the N1.
San Fernando Valley here.
Never seen more than 3Mb/s on the NS on the down side, usually 1.5-2Mb/s on the up. My N1 in the same locations routinely pulled 4Mb/s down, about 1.5-2Mbs up. Highest I recall ever seeing is 4.4Mb/s on the N1 down.
One thing I've noticed with the Speedtest app is that the default server for me, Los Angeles, is often very slow for all devices. I can pull faster speeds if I test against Bullhead City or other Az cities.
I concur with @big_adventure that the phone's software seems to limit it rather than the wireless technology. I'm on a 30Mb/s FIOS line at the house, the laptop gets 32 down, 20 up, the Nexus S on the same WiFi node maxes out 12Mb/s down and 7Mb/s up.
I'll try to run some tests today to see if my N1 can still get the 4Mb/s speeds it used to average at my office. I'll also run some tethering tests and see what the laptop can pull over the tether for comparison.
running speed tests on a mobile phone, the bottleneck is ALWAYS the mobile hardware. the combination of cpu, memory type and speed, are ALWAYS the bottleneck when speed testing on a phone. so its the whole package that matters. maybe the nexus 1 has slower RAM memory but faster CPU, but the iphone 4 has slower CPU but faster memory, etc.
I'm getting 2.7-3.8mbs download and ~1.7 upload(never seems to change much) here in different parts of North Dallas.
I just did about a dozen tests between the two phones (Nexus S and Nexus 1), from my office, where I used to get 4.0Mb/s on the N1 in Speedtest app on the phone.
I ran a couple of tests against 3 different servers (Los Angeles, Lake Havasu, Bullhead City) on each phone, and again on my laptop tethered via wifi hotspot to the Nexus S.
I threw in a few extra tests on the NS after a reboot of the phone (to swap the sim back and forth between the two phones).
The results were pretty much the same for each method.
I peaked out at 2.9Mb/s down on both phones, and 2.8Mb/s on the tethered laptop.
Upload speeds more interesting, the Nexus One maxed out at 1.3Mb/s on every test to every servier, the Nexus S got 1.7Mb/s on every test to every server, and on the tethered laptop as well.
Both phones show full bars and 3G and I used the Antennas app from the Market to confirm that both phones were connected to the same cell tower.
Perhaps not the best field testing, but good enough to show me that if either phone has an advantage over the other, in my area, it's actually the NS because it's getting 40% faster uploads and comparable downloads.
It also shows me that my fears that the NS wasn't getting the 4.0Mb/s I am used to in this location is not because of the device, it seems to be a change in the quality of service here.
As a final point of interest, I ran the same tests using my iPhone 4 on AT&T. Averaged about 1.9Mb/s on the down, 1.0 on the up. This was interesting because this phone was averaging 2.6-ish down last time I tested it here. It seems that both AT&T and T-Mo aren't serving up what they used to here near the Van Nuys Airport.
This also speaks to what I've said consistently about T-Mo vs AT&T...when I can get service from T-Mo it's much faster than what AT&T gives me, but the problem with T-Mo is too many areas that I can't get signal from them around here where AT&T is available on the phone.

Galaxy S2 vs HTC HD2 - WIFI reception test

Now that I've received my Galaxy S2, I kind of wondered if it really has bad WIFI reception as many suggested.
In order to test this objectively, and since I still have my HTC HD2 (which I always thought had decent WIFI reception), I've done a shootout between these two, using Speedtest.net.
I did the test in two locations, one location very close to the WIFI router, a place with good WIFI reception. The other location was far away from the router, a place with poor WIFI reception, this place was the farthest place from the router where the two devices still had enough signal to allow making the test (I did 3 rounds in this "poor WIFI reception" place, to see how much variation there is from test to test).
I have to say these results suprised me for the better.
Here is the test:
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Enjoy...
Cool comparison. Did you made one to compare sinal strength on both to see who can go wider in range to the wireless router?
its almost as good as the HD2
so does this mean most of the people complaining here are just trolls ??
and thank you for the tests
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Cool comparison. Did you made one to compare sinal strength on both to see who can go wider in range to the wireless router?
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Well, I didn't see much correlation between signal strength (or at least how it is reported at the status bar) and real signal reliability or speed. The Galaxy S2 usually reported worse signal strength, but in the real test it was performing more or less the same as the HD2. You can even see that in the last round of the 3 I did for "poor WIFI reception", the HD2 lost connection for some time (as was reported by Speedtest.net, not by the signal strength indicator at the status bar), but the Galaxy S2 didn't...
Nordic Hardware used the SGS2 to benchmark against the Sensation to demonstrate the latter's death-grip issue. One would certainly think that if the SGS2 was the slug everyone's reporting it to be they would have noticed and called that out.
http://www.nordichardware.se/testla...are-med-hoeg-upploesning.html?start=8#content
Has anyone considered the fact that the Samsung may just have a problem with the reception display and not actually the reception. Maybe the UI is reporting false readings.
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Has anyone considered the fact that the Samsung may just have a problem with the reception display and not actually the reception. Maybe the UI is reporting false readings.
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according to the other posters, wifi analyzer shows low reception
Also based on my test (my 5Ghz band shows less reception than my 2.4Ghz), speed difference between the two were almost non-existent. I couldn't get below what my cable bandwidth offers
Sense default to low wifi transmit power, go to wifi->menu->advanced and increase the power for a more fair comparison
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Sense default to low wifi transmit power, go to wifi->menu->advanced and increase the power for a more fair comparison
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The HTC HD2 was not using SENSE. It was running a Cyanogenmod 7 Android ROM.

Wifi performance.

I used to own an Atrix and got rid of it because of the Wifi performance and a couple of other minor things. I'm wondering though, if I loaded a custom rom, could it literally improve the Wifi performance?
On my Inspire, the Wifi strength got better when I loaded cm7. Has anyone that's loaded cm7 on their Atrix noticed an improvement in Wifi performance?
I would literally have to hold the Atrix in landscape orientation to pick up signal at work where my iPhone 4 and Inspire can pick it up regularly.
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I'd have to say that your particular phone had a problem. Mine has awesome wifi strength. Way better than my Tilt2 or iPhone 3GS....and way faster since it's "n".
Maybe I should use the term range not performance.
I had 3 different Atrix's and they had the same range and were all dead in the same spots.
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Haven't noticed a difference in roms and wifi performance....
My 3gs hasvway better range then ny ATRIX ... so sad.
Still ... its not an issue since I have pretty good 3g coverage in my area.
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Yes, unfortunately the atrix wifi range isn't that good. I have trouble picking up signal where others do so easily.
I wonder if the antenna is too small... would it be possible to "embed" a wire inside the back cover and connect it to the regular antenna to create a makeshift range extender?
Edit: iI think the phone's radio has influence over wifi reception, but it can only go so far. Might not be 'improveable' as much as we'd like to.
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Haven't noticed a difference in roms and wifi performance....
My 3gs hasvway better range then ny ATRIX ... so sad.
Still ... its not an issue since I have pretty good 3g coverage in my area.
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Very sad yes. I work in a lead lined building and have no service whatsoever, I completely rely on Wifi.
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That'd be your particular device's problem. Atrix got best wifi performance IMHO. Very fast and responsive. SpeedTest.net results shows that with the wifi at my home, my XT720 returns a speed of 7~8 Mbps where Atrix always returns 12~16 Mbps of speed.
I'd say the reduction in range is due to the improvement in speed.
My Atrix get's my wifi signal about 20m through 4-5 concrete walls, occasionally I've also noticed it get's it through 3 levels in my apartment building, though I don't have anything else to compare it too.
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Maybe I should use the term range not performance.
I had 3 different Atrix's and they had the same range and were all dead in the same spots.
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I doubt a ROM will significantly improve the wifi range on the Atrix, more of hardware thing IMO.
Same behavior for me at work too. My old BB 8900 can hold onto the weak wifi signal (around 80-90dbm) better than my Atrix. If I run too much data on wifi on the Atrix, the wifi will throw too many errors and disconnect. I ran logcat to see all of the fun stuff going on to figure this out.
Fortunately work is upgrading the wireless network soon .
There has been several radio firmware packages released since you got rid of yours I think. The latest AT&T one (1.77.30P) definitelly made things better all around for me.
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There has been several radio firmware packages released since you got rid of yours I think. The latest AT&T one (1.77.30P) definitelly made things better all around for me.
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I wish there was a way to test this without going out and buying a phone.
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I wish there was a way to test this without going out and buying a phone.
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The new radio helps the range a little vs the radio in 2.2.2 for me. The wifi disconnects less frequently, but it still disconnects from time to time. If you rely solely on wifi it's not worth it IMO.
My wifi is awesome and all I have are access to g routers. Speed and distance.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
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The new radio helps the range a little vs the radio in 2.2.2 for me. The wifi disconnects less frequently, but it still disconnects from time to time. If you rely solely on wifi it's not worth it IMO.
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I agree. Thank you for the info.
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Anyone else having slow WiFi connection speeds?

I have been having issues with my phone where it seems to get VERY slow speeds on my home WiFi.
All other devices get very high speeds (eg. Laptop 300+ Mbps, OneplusOne 105Mbps, Nexus 5 60Mbps, Nexus 7 70Mbps).
My Moto X Pure though, for some reason, often gets very unstable speeds varying from 5Mbps to 40Mbps. There is rare occasion when it gets full speeds of 160+ Mbps, but not often.
Anyone else experiencing awkward slowness? It sucks when updating larger apps.
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I have been having issues with my phone where it seems to get VERY slow speeds on my home WiFi.
All other devices get very high speeds (eg. Laptop 300+ Mbps, OneplusOne 105Mbps, Nexus 5 60Mbps, Nexus 7 70Mbps).
My Moto X Pure though, for some reason, often gets very unstable speeds varying from 5Mbps to 40Mbps. There is rare occasion when it gets full speeds of 160+ Mbps, but not often.
Anyone else experiencing awkward slowness? It sucks when updating larger apps.
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Yes. I see slow LTE speeds as well. I posted about it here and Motorola.com and of course no one had anything to say. Top speed at home on wifi is about 180 Mbps. Its rare I get that. I check it with the speed test app and maybe the 3rd time I try it will be at max speed. Normally I see about 50-60. I feel like my LTE speeds are way slower than what they used to be at home and at work. About half of what they were with my old Droid Turbo. Debating getting another one. Not sure if I got crappy antennas or what. I have nothing else to go on since no one else could give me any feedback.
TheColdOne said:
I have been having issues with my phone where it seems to get VERY slow speeds on my home WiFi.
All other devices get very high speeds (eg. Laptop 300+ Mbps, OneplusOne 105Mbps, Nexus 5 60Mbps, Nexus 7 70Mbps).
My Moto X Pure though, for some reason, often gets very unstable speeds varying from 5Mbps to 40Mbps. There is rare occasion when it gets full speeds of 160+ Mbps, but not often.
Anyone else experiencing awkward slowness? It sucks when updating larger apps.
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Yes. I just noticed this yesterday. I'm doing more research but it appears unless I'm right on top of my router it sucks. I'm likely going to be sending back my Pure to moto over this as soon as I confirm other phones do much better (pretty sure my other ones do but need to do back to back comparison of them).
rpstar said:
Yes. I just noticed this yesterday. I'm doing more research but it appears unless I'm right on top of my router it sucks. I'm likely going to be sending back my Pure to moto over this as soon as I confirm other phones do much better (pretty sure my other ones do but need to do back to back comparison of them).
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Initial indications are that it's got abysmal 5.8 ghz performance beyond maybe 15 feet. Much worse than other devices. Very good though on 2.4 only.
Further comparisons seem to indicate it might be on par with other portables. Dunno for sure. Still investigating. Just noticed it as it can get really, really bad on 5.8 while still connected.
I'm having the worst WiFi speeds imaginable right now, while my one plus has great speeds on the same WiFi. Any solutions for this?
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I noticed that my Moto X drops WIFI connectivity every few seconds when I'm in a particular area of the house and the phone's Bluetooth is on. My Wife's N5, N7 and my old N4 work OK so it's definetly something to do with the phone.
Actually, I was checking out my network the other day, and was surprising surprised at the actual connection speed it was reading. Laptop gets maybe 650mbps connection in the same location. Behind 2 walls about 60ft away from Asus AC68 router. which hides behind a TV.
internet is local company, 50 up/50 down... down speed is about on par with other devices
I just got this phone yesterday and I've got to say I'm very surprised about it. It's very useful $300 phone and it does everything is $700 phones does. Sorry for bad grammar I'm using text-to-speech. But I've also noticed that if you switch to the 2.4 gigahertz you don't have the Wi-Fi issue for some reason it's only the 5 gigahertz

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