How's your wifi connection on Note 3?

[Dukins]

Re: How's your wifi connection on note3?

I completed turned off wifi. It's not worth it at this point for me, too many drops to 4g and unstable. Yes, I have unlimited data. I feel the pain for the people that has capped data plans. Yikes, hope he gets better with an update or workaround.

 

[powellrs]

Goes back and forth says weak internet. Our s4 works fine

 

[desdroid]

Try disabling (not merely turn off) WiFi direct in the App Manager.

Seems to improve but not completely eliminate the WiFi disconnections.

 

[desdroid]

It seems the more apps that use WiFi simultaneously, the more likely WiFi crashes.

 

[zmann]

That is weird. I always have a solid wifi connection,, no in and out stuff . So it's not all note 3 with this issue. Very strange,, hope it gets resolved somehow for you.

THE BEAST,,NOTE 3. SIZE IS EVERYTHING!!!

 

[SalixIncendium]

Ditto ^^

I have not experienced any difference in connectivity from my Note 2.

 

[Andronote3]

I had this issue on day one. This is what I did:
Go to settings, on the connections tab, tap on Wi-Fi, then press the menu button and tap on advanced. Uncheck always allow scanning and auto network switch. That fixed it for me.

 

[zmann]

I had this issue on day one. This is what I did:
Go to settings, on the connections tab, tap on Wi-Fi, then press the menu button and tap on advanced. Uncheck always allow scanning and auto network switch. That fixed it for me.

Just checked that setting on mine and it is checked,, still,, never had an issue with wifi.

THE BEAST,,NOTE 3. SIZE IS EVERYTHING!!!

 

[SalixIncendium]

I had this issue on day one. This is what I did:
Go to settings, on the connections tab, tap on Wi-Fi, then press the menu button and tap on advanced. Uncheck always allow scanning and auto network switch. That fixed it for me.

Come to think of it, I did have an issue on the first day with the phone jumping off of wifi in favor of the stronger LTE connection when I was in the AT&T store. I talked to the sales guy about it and he did change a setting, which I'm going to conclude based on William Molina's post was the "auto network switch" setting. Mine is off. My "always allow auto scanning" is still checked.

So I think William Molina may have won the thread. Uncheck "auto network switch" under advanced wifi settings and this should resolve your issue. I think "always allow scanning" can remain on, as mine is and I have no issues. That and it would be very inconvenient to uncheck this since I connect to several wifi connections each day.

 

[zmann]

Always allow scanning I unchecked day one. That feature scans for wifi even if you have wifi off. When I have wifi on wifi stills finds networks. Again that feature scans for wifi when wifi is off.

THE BEAST,,NOTE 3. SIZE IS EVERYTHING!!!

 

[A7llaman]

perfect

 

[Celf11]

One problem, several solutions, but none of them worked for me. Using a network app I found out my WiFi connection could drop while switching from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz...and back. Once I had set my router on 2.4 only the problem was over.

 

[desdroid]

One problem, several solutions, but none of them worked for me. Using a network app I found out my WiFi connection could drop while switching from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz...and back. Once I had set my router on 2.4 only the problem was over.

Don't do that. Just name your 2.4Ghz and 5ghz differently.

On the phone, Set the password only for the ssid that you want it to connect to.

 

[BigManz]

Hello All,

I have several devices in my house connected to wifi that don't have any issues. I also have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 that doesn't have any issues. However my wife's Galaxy S4 and my Note 3 both running Android 4.3 are connectivity issues. I've tried everything from wiping the device cache, to disabling power savings mode from the hidden menu, and yes the auto switch to mobile network is off as well. None of that appears to work...
I have an Asus AC router as well NOT running a STOCK firmware (Merlin build). Anyways... if you sadly drop down your 2.4Ghz channel bandwidth to 20Mhz it appears to address the problem.

I wish the advanced wifi setup options on the device would let me do this instead of impacting my whole network. My router isn't set to legacy mode, I did try it and can confirm it worked... but the common thread was really the channel bandwidth. If I'm going to limit my channel width I'd be damned if I'm going to limit my connections to G and below.
I've left my 5Ghz set to 80Mhz for devices that need the additional speed. Shame my Z30 never had this issue

Anyways... give this a try and let me know if it helps. Both my wife's phone and mine appear to be stable now. I really hope Samsung comes out with a patch for this.... as it appears to be related to 4.3 and not our devices.

 

[mike hunt7]

I'm starting to think it's the wifi??? If I remember my networking education wifi can only handle so many users at once... my note 3 works magic everywhere I go except at work. the building is predominantly wifi and my phone is just another user... while im watching Netflix I get a buffering screen which only means that wifi dropped off as I get crap 4g in this concrete and steel dungeon I work in...I sometimes get an authentication error that remedies itself once I go back into the wifi menu. long story short It has to be the wifi where you're at. public wifi 's take a huge load not from customers but from people walking by that wants to hop on. I never drop off at home...

 

[Engin Bilecan]

actually i have same problem.
i have my restaurant.
my friends are connecting to my restaurant wireles with iphone s3 s4 but my note3 can not connect.
i do not know what is exact problem.
can you please tell us what we can do.
thank you.

 

[desdroid]

This seems to help with the "Your internet connection is unstable" and constant disconnection.

Like many others, I have this pop up in the notification area few times every hour that is really annoying. Never had such notification from note 2, so played around with my router & phone settings, and so far has found this method that worked for me, hope it'll work for some of you experiencing similar issue.

In short, basically I just put my note 3 IP in my router's DHCP reservation list then manually set my note 3 network using static IP in the wifi setting.

Here are some details (router ip/192.168.10.1; note 3 ip/192.168.10.188):

1. Turn off Auto Connect & Auto network switch under Advanced wifi settings
2. Connect to my router normally using DHCP, I'm using WPA2
3. Login to my router and put my note 3 IP in the DHCP reservation list. each router is different, mine is TRENDnet TEW-633GR, so it's in Basic -> Network Settings
4. Under note3's wifi networks, long press the connected wifi network, click "Modify entwork confi", check "Show advanced options", under "IP Settings" select "Static", enter my gateway(192.168.10.1) and my note 3 IP address(192.168.10.188). For DNS, I use Open DNS(208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220), then click on "Save"

I've been on this setting for the past 3-4 days and haven't seen a single unstable network notification message. Hope this helps.

 

[Drew 52]

my new note 3 wont stay connected to my BT wifi and its driving me nuts..... all the other devices ie I-phone, I-pad, galaxy tab 3 all work absolutely fine. please help

 

[jettie1767]

I have the same issue with my Note 3. My iPad and iPhone connects fine to a public wifi (eg. Starbucks) but the Note 3 keeps on saying I have an unstable network connection and disconnects/disables it. Trying to connect multiple times eventually makes it stick. It's very annoying. I tried turning off the automatic switch to mobile networks but that didn't make a difference.

 

[desdroid]

I have the same issue with my Note 3. My iPad and iPhone connects fine to a public wifi (eg. Starbucks) but the Note 3 keeps on saying I have an unstable network connection and disconnects/disables it. Trying to connect multiple times eventually makes it stick. It's very annoying. I tried turning off the automatic switch to mobile networks but that didn't make a difference.

Have you updated your Note 3? Make sure you are not rooted or else it won't check for updates.