wifi issues

**emagdnimohno** · 03-20-2012, 11:56 PM

I have an Acer a500 on ics .. ever since I had this tablet, the wifi only works at regular speed for about 10 minutes.. after that period, it slows down dramatically .. like 200kb per second.. I always have turn off the wifi for about a minute. And restart it.. anybody. Know what it could be?

**Gator352** · 03-24-2012, 08:54 AM

No clue, but mine does this as well especially when watching you tube videos. For the first 5 or 6 videos it plays flawlessly without buffering but soon after, every video I play, buffers like crazy making you tube useless until I stop/restart wifi. Annoying.

The only work around I found was to set QoS (quality of service) for my router for streaming. It helps a little but nothing inherently mind blowing.

**UnfocusedHTC** · 03-24-2012, 12:37 PM

I have the same issue with YouTube but not netflix. Weird. Maybe its just YouTube.

**B. Diddy** · 03-25-2012, 03:30 PM

Your A500 has ICS? I'm assuming it's rooted and running an ICS ROM, then. So maybe the custom ROM is causing the slowdown? Unless this was a problem before you installed the ROM, that is.

**scarryman04** · 03-25-2012, 07:36 PM

Def an issue with the ICS ROM your running, I run Thors and have never had a wifi issue

**robcassman** · 03-27-2012, 10:29 PM

I have the same problem. Netflix works but Youtube is beyond frustrating!

**jsdrftng** · 03-27-2012, 10:48 PM

I have the same issue with you tube but not Netflix, xoom with ova non rooted

**emagdnimohno** · 03-28-2012, 11:18 AM

I'm not using a ROM. Did the manual update. And it was doing it before the update. Yes, if you read the ics thread, there is a stable manual update without rooting. And Gator, that's exactly what mine does!

**B. Diddy** · 03-28-2012, 12:24 PM

I dunno man, a leaked manual ICS update that doesn't require root is still unofficial, and could therefore still be causing the slowdown. I would wait until the official OTA update, then see if the problem persists.