Wifi Issues? Slows down over time.

[HaveADay]

Hi, I have a wifi only xoom that seems to be having problems with wifi connectivity. I'm basically seeing an issue whereby over time (though I actually now am starting to think it's actually based more on traffic passed) the wifi throughput seems to decline. What I'm seeing is that when I first reboot the unit I'm getting about 2.5mpbs when connected to a sprint overdrive and about 10mbps when connected to my office wireless. After running for a while or transferring a bunch of data throughput seems to decline quite a bit. To the point that the last test I ran after viewing amazon streaming video for about 20 minutes was 47kbps down. What's also interesting is that uploading doesn't seem to suffer nearly as badly with still about 500kbps when the down speeds are so poor. I'm using the speedtest.net app as this seems to be about the best guage of speed I've found. It's admittedly not perfect but seems to be giving reasonable results.

Anyone else experienced this?

Thanks
Ben

 

[atlsport]

I've got a 3g Xoom and am experiencing the same thing. I've only had mine 3 days but noticed it happened twice (both times on my home network). Thought it was a network issue, haven't really had time to trouble-shoot, but having the exact results you are, using speedtest.net, and downloads drop to 20ish kbs for me. I tried turning airplane mode on and off, letting it reconnect to the wifi, but speed stays the same. Only rebooting Xoom makes it fast again.

 

[HaveADay]

Yeah, you mentioned another detail that I didn't. Disassociating and reassociating doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever.

 

[realitydigg]

I can't pin anything to this, but i did connect to the hotspot feature on my Thunderbolt and it was so slow I thought it was broken - then i rebooted and got full speed. Could be I was at the tail end of the same thing

 

[sfmike22]

Same thing happens on the 3G connected devices. Search the forums for about:debug to change your browser settings - problem solved.

 

[HaveADay]

I did some searching and didn't find anything. I'm also not certain that's going to fix the issue. If the speedtest app is also showing problems is there reason to think that a change to the browser will affect the tcp stack of the entire thing?

 

[strauss884]

+1. Same issue. Is it a memory thing possibly?