Slow WiFi after 4.4 upgrade on Nexus 10 (solved)

[chriskiam]

Tmobile upgrade to 4.4.2 last night for the S4. I thought I had no issues until tonight when an app was updating and it took forever. I ran ookla speed test and my speed was less than half of what it usually is. I figured a glitch, and ran it again. I have fios quantum so even half speed is good, but it's not what it was.
I restarted the router, and same thing.
I was ready to call Verizon when I figured I'd check with another device.
The ipad reported normal speeds, so that ruled out Verizon.
Then it dawned on me, I just had the upgrade, could that be it?
I found this thread and #18 was real close.
I changed location to highest setting and speeds returned.
Location mode in power saving, 17 mbps down and 17 up.
Location mode in high accuracy, 43 mbps down and 36 up.
Thanks for the thread and that I resolved this so quickly.
Hopefully this helps sometime else.
I wonder how many other people aren't noticing?

 

[Viventis]

I am a fairly good test subject, since I just got my Nexus 10 yesterday and did very little to it but synced with my Google account and updated in two steps to 4.4.2. I get the exact download figures with all three location services settings (High Accuracy, Power Saving, and Device Only). The wifi is coming in at 33Mbps download. I wonder if it might be an app or two causing the problem.

 

[Viventis]

Below steps Fixed the issue for me.

Go to "settings - Wi-Fi - Advanced - And uncheck Wi-Fi optimization tick.

I have mine ticked "on" and still get 33 Mbps download with 4.4.2.

 

[crxssi]

I wonder if it might be an app or two causing the problem.

I doubt it is an app. It is more likely the type of WiFi being used (protocol, security, frequency, speed) and/or some other setting combined with it.

 

[nige65]

I've read all the advice on these posts and tried all the suggestions. But i have still got very slow internet .ive tried all the location options and does not seem to change much. Somethings load ok while most things are either very slow or time out and wont load. It is the same as the rest of you, it has only appeared since last upgrade.
Only had the tablet for 4 weeks and very dissapointed with this. Is there anythingthat we can do to get google to fix this.
All advice welcome. Thanks.

 

[Simbapuppy]

I have a Nexus 10 and have the same problem with a slow wifi connection. I've read all the posts here and have tried everything, but the link speed still shows 24 mps. My Samsung Galaxy S4 cell phone is on the same wifi and router and it shows a link speed of 72 mps. Does anyone else have any other ideas?

 

[WorldOfJymm]

Here's what worked for me.

First the setup: I have a Nexus 10 rooted, but with nothing really departing from the stock Android 4.4.2 image other than Titanium Backup.

The issue: Everything was fine up until a week ago. Noticed my network was cutting out. Checked all internet connectivity between the tablet and the net. Finally set a desktop to constantly ping the tablet (Try this! At a command prompt, type ping -t [tablet address]) and that's where I saw it: The network connection on the tablet was dropping, then coming back for a bit and then dropping again. I tried killing random tasks and rebooting. Same behavior after a few moments from boot-up. My location services are off and there's no other battery-saving anything running.

My solution:
Having exhausted all other suggestions here and elsewhere, I was totally out of ideas and started thinking about faults beyond the tablet. My wireless router is a dual-band router though I don't really use the 5gHz (till now - read on). Everything wireless in the house -- which isn't all that much, mind you -- uses the 2.4gHz band. For the heck of it, I created a wireless profile for the 5gHz band and forced the tablet onto it. The moment I did this, the dropping vanished! As I've typed and revised this post over 15 to 20 minutes, I've had the desktop pinging the tablet. Not one dropped packet.

So today's theory is that Android 4.4.2 wireless doesn't aggressively cling to its wireless connection and if the wireless router is even a bit crowded, the tablet drops the link.

 

[Russell Dew]

I un checked wifi optimization, rebooted and got 51.09 Download and 17.33 upload so pretty chuffed with that.

 

[richyhx1]

Same problem on my gs4 active after installing 4.4.2. Found that it's the bluetooth
If bluetooth is off: no problem
If bluetooth is paired: no problem
If bluetooth is unpaired: 1/6 wifi speed available

Hope this helps

 

[Angus66]

Thanks a lot for this thread Billeee! After the 4.4.2 update my Nexus 10's WiFi speed was abysmal - my download speed was 2.29 Mbps on the 5Ghz band.

I tried a million different changes including doing a factory reset with zero success.

After changing the location mode from "High accuracy" to "Battery saving" my download speed went up to 62.59 Mbps! This is in line with my N10 pre-4.4.2 speed on 5Ghz (it's the only device in my house on the 5Ghz band).

An interesting side note: My upload speed never changed from the original ~ 10 - 12 Mbps.

 

[roadrat]

N was the culprit on mine.
All fixed now

 

[Alvin Brinson]

Same issue here. Angus66' solution "fixed" it for me.

Definitely a bug! Running stock 4.4.3 on my N7 LTE (4.4.4 not available on the LTE model, go figure)...

Noticed I was getting significantly lower link speeds (13/24mbps) on my N7 than on my N5 (135mbps). Turned off High Accuracy and set it to Battery Saving, and BAM suddenly faster speeds on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz networks.

Is there an issue open with Android development for this that can be voted on?

 

[chrono4111]

Same problem on my gs4 active after installing 4.4.2. Found that it's the bluetooth
If bluetooth is off: no problem
If bluetooth is paired: no problem
If bluetooth is unpaired: 1/6 wifi speed available

Hope this helps

This was the solution for me! Turn bluetooth on and my nexus barely stays connected to my wifi. Turn off bluetooth and it jumps back on like a champion.

Easy 3 bars without bluetooth. Barely 1 with bluetooth.

Thanks man!

 

[gorosz]

I'm having the same awful WiFi speeds, & connection dropping, on my N10 & it's gotten to the point where I can't deal with it any longer. Getting .5Mbps consistently. I'd like to pull 4.4.4 off & restore 4.2 or whatever version it originally came with. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to go about doing that? Thanks.

 

[Daniel Harris89]

I'm having the same problem on my Nexus 7 2013. I tried setting location setting to high accuracy and battery saving. Disabled Wifi optimization and rebooted. I even wiped the cache and still it runs at 1.6Mbps.

 

[Pablo Mercade]

I HAVE FOUND A SOLUTION. Well, at least for me it worked. I was having the same issue where all the devices surfed the Internet and apps perfect minus my android phones.

-log into your modem/router and change the dhcp ip address scheme from 10.0.0.1 to 192.168.1.1
-reboot modem/router
-send me a cheer if it works for you

***don't waste money buying another router nor waste time "rooting" your phone like all these dumbies are Suggesting.
***android seriously needs to fix that in the next update

 

[crxssi]

-log into your modem/router and change the dhcp ip address scheme from 10.0.0.1 to 192.168.1.1

Your router was set up as a class A? That is very unusual and totally unnecessary. Nobody is going to need 16,777,214 network addresses on their LAN! A class C is far, far, far more common (254 devices). At work I am running a class B, but we have more than 300 devices and also need to categorize stuff.