WiFi strength, range, and throughput - LG G8 Real Life Review

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Great reception everywhere on Wifi

Much worse than lg g6 or even g5. On old LG g6 in my bedroom i got GOOD signal strength and this brand new flagship just POOR.
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Much worse than lg g6 or even g5. On old LG g6 in my bedroom i got GOOD signal strength and this brand new flagship just POOR. View attachment 4813096View attachment 4813097
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apples to oranges my friend your comparing two totally different wifi bands. turn off 5ghz on the phone or router and it will be comparable or better

Its doesn't matter. Both frequencies have same poor signal strength
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I've only had it for two days so not terribly long. Have a 1gbs connection routed to a Ubiquity mesh network at home with a Unifi switch and PFsense router. No changes since the screen on my V30 glitched out two days ago with the network.
The reception I've noticed on both wifi in and outdoors and calls in the house (using TMO towers not wifi) has been demonstrably less than the V30 it replaced. Used to receive four bars for wifi outside and three bars for calling inside. Now it's two bars w/wifi out and one to nothing inside. I was actuallyy standing nfive feet from my Unifi AP Pro last night and only had two to three wifi bars appearing at 2.4ghz instead of 5ghz which I would normally get. No case on the phone yet and it's stock. Just my 2¢. Otherwise so far so good and I'm enjoying it. :good: Hope that helps!

The poor comments about the G8 wifi and telephone reception is what scares me away from the G8. I don't care about any of the other "negatives". But if the G8 can't handle the basics as well as the S10, then the rest of its positives don't make any difference. Is the G8 better or worse than the S10 at wifi and telephone reception? Thanks.

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WiFi strength, range, and throughput

Rate this thread to express how you think the LG V30'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?
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I have just received mine. Wifi and 4G connection seems to be poor, very low speed. In fact, my old Samsung can get 30mbps on wifi and the new V30 only gets 10 mbps download and 0,2 mbps upload. It is clearly a fault..... Any ideas?
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I have just received mine. Wifi and 4G connection seems to be poor, very low speed. In fact, my old Samsung can get 30mbps on wifi and the new V30 only gets 10 mbps download and 0,2 mbps upload. It is clearly a fault..... Any ideas?
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No problems here on carrier signal. And that's running through Adguard VPN, so ping speeds are higher than normal (lower is better).
What carrier are you using? Where do you live?
I have AT&T Prepaid in the metro Atlanta area.
I also have no problems both with speeds and signal.
Got result of 376.78 Mbps /59.21 Mbps 2ms
Look good here as well
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nufiwk said:
I have just received mine. Wifi and 4G connection seems to be poor, very low speed. In fact, my old Samsung can get 30mbps on wifi and the new V30 only gets 10 mbps download and 0,2 mbps upload. It is clearly a fault..... Any ideas?
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I had to RMA my V30 due to poor cellular performance. I noticed that it would show 4G, but not 4G LTE. New one should be delivered tomorrow. I got one for my wife as well and hers hit 20 Mbps without issue. I struggled to hit 10. I'm on MintSIM so while 20 is low for some that is their cap and fast enough for me.
delete please
I have really slow wifi even if I am a few feet from the router. I get about 30mbps or sometimes even 5mbps at its worst when my old V20 or iPhones could pull in 100+mbps which is the speed I pay for.

Photo quality

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cheese
came from a poco f1 and I'm impressed by OP7 color accuracy and photo fidelity, nice one ...
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bokeh and indoor shots excellent too
Night shot
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cheese
came from a poco f1 and I'm impressed by OP7 color accuracy and photo fidelity, nice one ...
bokeh and indoor shots excellent too
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I am planning to buy op7 is that a good upgrade from poco f1 or should i walt
Photo quality are vert good, look how my cat have nice color :
Compared to my Xperia Z2 its days and nights
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I am planning to buy op7 is that a good upgrade from poco f1 or should i walt
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it's a good upgrade due to OIS and build quality and I got the 256MB/8GB version for €428 but I think now I'd rather pick a 7 pro or 7t, theres still more cam detail. indeed the poco f1 can do great photos too but it's a safe bet to take excellent shots with an OP7.
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My Device is now running on android 10
The stock oneplus camera app is super choppy in the 240fps slow Mo mode and there is terrible frame skipping.
What should i do to fix this.
It's utterly unusable now.
Been on many phones, ever since my Pixel 2XL no phone just blew me away, honestly with OP7 you don't even need a GCam I love how a the pictures from its stock Cam app are

WiFi strength, range, and throughput

Rate this thread to express how you think the Moto G Power'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?
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My last phone would still be connected to my wifi when I was about 40m from my home, whereas this one is about half that. Not that it's a bad thing as at home wifi strength is excellent and download speeds (I'm on a lowsy 15mb) are decent too.
I will answer about G8 Power, not G Power. I was a little wary before the purchase due to many negative feedbacks about the G8 Power's limited 2.4GHz Wifi connectivity. I must say that even limited to 2.4GHz the speed is not too bad. My home internet is 100Mbps download and 70Mbps upload, and even at 2.4GHz, the G8 Power managed to reach 58 / 55Mbps download and upload. Of course, this will depend on the router. In my case, a Tenda AC6 can deliver faster speeds at 2.4GHz even at 20MHz bandwidth. TPLink routers, for example, will have to be set to 40MHz for better use. The 2.4Ghz network range on the G8 Power is also good. I can connect it at a distance of approximately 24m with 4 brick walls as an obstacle, and get a speed of 4Mbps. That is, the same distance from the Samsung Galaxy A7 2017, which I used for comparison.
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Something curious is that Antutu indicates that the Moto G8 Power has 5GHz Wifi. It is possible that the hardware supports it, but it is disabled by software.
i think the wifi 5ghz is disabled by software, because the cpu support this type of wifi.
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i think the wifi 5ghz is disabled by software, because the cpu support this type of wifi.
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A fix for that will be nice. Hows your coverage? I get less signal from this phone compared to my older Huawei P9. I have Tuenti.
josecabre said:
A fix for that will be nice. Hows your coverage? I get less signal from this phone compared to my older Huawei P9. I have Tuenti.
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I have claro, the signal is good, compared with my older nexus 6, is the same in 3g and 4g. but the wifi only work in 2.4ghz really sucks

WiFi strength, range, and throughput

Rate this thread to express how you think the LG V60 ThinQ'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?
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I have issues with my wifi strength on 5ghz.. Upstairs I get 1 bar where my laptop same room is getting close to max signal. Makes me think lg cheaped out on wifi card
With asus zenwifi ax
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Definitely has issues with 5 gigahertz wifi.
My V40 had better wifi performance.
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Need I remind you that "bars" are completely arbitrary? Have you compared the actual rssi against another phone? A laptop has room for a higher gain antenna so it's not a good basis for comparison.
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Blue text is my v50, green text is v60
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In intially had issues with the V60 I purchased through TMobile a few months ago. It would lock onto the WiFi access point in my basement and never let go. Eventually losing the signal as I moved further away and I would have to restart the phone to get the WiFi to connect again. I have a Google mesh network so it was only connecting via 5ghz. I got a replacement that did the same thing so I eventually moved to a different device all together. I recently picked up a refurbed V60 with more current software (I'm on the November security patch) and I have had zero WiFi issues with the current device.
V60 @ approx 20 feet with obstacles. Google Mesh.
My g8 in the same exact location as above.

Cellular strength and throughput

We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Samsung Galaxy A42 5G's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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It's quite good (as I also don't need 5G, just few places are covered in my country), data speed is as good as my 5 yaers old Huawei phone, phone calls are clear. But I'm wondering, why is LTE signal so weak, at home I had full strength signal on my old phone, but Samsung A42 shows -103dB (2 of 4 bars).
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It's quite good (as I also don't need 5G, just few places are covered in my country), data speed is as good as my 5 yaers old Huawei phone, phone calls are clear. But I'm wondering, why is LTE signal so weak, at home I had full strength signal on my old phone, but Samsung A42 shows -103dB (2 of 4 bars).
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I was thinking of getting this phone directly from Samsung (unlocked US version), but looking over the details on gsmarena it seems like it's missing bands 29, 30, & 66 for AT&T networks. Wondering if it's missing some crucial bands for you as well. Not seeing band 71 listed either (believe that's required for Sprint networks).
Edit: If anybody who has this phone and can confirm exactly what bands this phone has then please chime in. It's on sale right now directly from Samsung for another day and would like to pull the trigger but missing bands would be a deal breaker for me. TIA
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