I've just installed Bugless Beast 0.7.5 yesterday (loving it so far, OC'd to 800mhz), but the wifi tether is running very slow. I'm using the Wireless Tether for Root Users app, and I'm getting terrible speeds.
Speeds I'm getting are: 634kbps down, 106kbps up. Is this normal or is something wrong with my setup?
Hey, at least your internet isn't censored in (South) China! heh
Nope, but my ISP has a virus which is throttling bandwidth from Portland to Bangor every single day. 25Mb/s from 3am to 3pm, then it starts to trickle down. By 9PM I am operating at .14Mb/s. It has been like this for three weeks.
That is how I know how fast my tethering is. It is currently 4x the speed of my ISP at 9pm.
Download the speed test app from the market, this will allow you to test throughput to your phone. Use this reading to compare speeds with tethering, if its significantly different then we can rule out 3g connection as the culprit.
Try changing the broadcast channel, another signal might be interfering
lol, i finally decided to try out wifi tether and it's actually faster than the crappy dsl connection I currently feed off at home! Loving it!
2Mbps down/ 650Kbps up btw
edit: I stand corrected, the longer I eave it on, the higher it seems to go. I am now running at a consistent 2.6Mbps/750Kbps. Is it normal that the connection speed would go up over time or is this just a temporary change in signal strength?
Last edited by rhyno; February 17th, 2010 at 09:35 AM.
I just tested my tether on my computer on speedtest and came up with around 1.25/0.23 or so, with a ping of around 115ms. Not sure if that's good or not...
Wifi and 5.54 down and 1.28 up! That's Cool as it gets!
I was getting only 1-1.5 Mb down and 600 Kb up while on WIFI to my Acer Liquid e with 2.2 Froyo. With USB tethering I was getting around 1.5 to 2 Mb down and around 1 Mb up. I use my Androids to work on PC's and have most of the time gotten real good download speeds with WIFI but, not at home. USB tethering was always slower than WIFI, as far as my experience goes. I actually went nuts and rooted my new Android with Z4root (Works real good and on 2.2 Liquid e too!) and did a few changes to my Froyo system and still no difference as far as Wifi went but sure sped up my Acer that's for sure. Then I did a bit of thinking about what everyone was saying about other wifi devices may be inter-fearing with the reception of the Phone. Well, my printer is an older Lexmark X9575 (Work good!) anyway, it was shut off but, not unplugged. So, you'd think there would be no problem! eh? Decided to unplug it just for the hell of it and "Low and Behold"! I got 4.54 Mb's down and 1.28 Mb's up with 97 ms ping.
Just imagine that on Fido (Rogers) Wireless, over a cell phone!
So, my only word for the other souls out there seeking faster WIFI, CHECK EVERYTHING! I could not believe that something actually, supposedly, shut off was still interfering with my signal strength, and I should know better!
My ping test wasn't that bad either! I can't believe the difference! WOW! I always do my tests at a distance of over 500 miles, for an average, to get a better feel for what is actually happening.
Last edited by dfmerrifield; November 23rd, 2010 at 04:15 AM.
Damn, that's nice. I'm only at about .5MB both ways. Have seen it as high as 1MB down through USB via PdaNet. However, speed test on phone reads in the .6MB range both ways, so I'm loosing a nice chunk of speed via WIFI, have to try some more channels...
Ok I have a huawei ascend 2 from cricket wireless and i have it rooted.. when i run the barnacle it reads: Download: 0.4kb and Upload: 0.6 kb on the tether screen.. what am i doing wrong?
If you are like me, I have a Verizon Droid Incredible and I noticed recently there were some pretty consistent updates - root, android and I used to be able to watch netflix on phone and pc, so after an update or two, I noticed I could no longer view.... saw some postings online that clearly says..... verizon is sick of people stealing the air time through android tether and are actually changing that through their up dates. DON'T UPDATE... if you already CAN watch YOU TUBE or NETFLIX.
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Wifi and 5.54 down and 1.28 up! That's Cool as it gets!
