I wasn't exactly sure what forum to put this in but here's my question. I can't figure out why my phone is slow on my home wifi. I have an HTC one, and all of our devices are somewhat slow on our wifi. The wife's phone and ipad are also somewhat slow. The wife's computer also runs on our same wifi and is fast. On my HTC one I can run a speed test and get 22mbps/4.5mbps. I get fast speeds on speed test but surfing the net and playing youtube is somewhat slow. If I switch to 4g (it's just 4g where we live, not LTE, we have to go in town for that) the 4g is much snappier however running a speed test, the 4g only gets 5mbps/4mbps. I've looked all around the internet and can't find anything. Do you guys have any ideas?
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That is just downright strange. Have you tried turning off your router for a few minutes?
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Agree, rebooting the router can sometimes fix this kind of issue.
Also, try installing Wifi Analyzer and see if there are a lot of other wifi signals in the area that use the same channel as your router. If so, go into the router's settings (see its manual for more instructions) and change the channel it uses.
Also, try installing Wifi Analyzer and see if there are a lot of other wifi signals in the area that use the same channel as your router. If so, go into the router's settings (see its manual for more instructions) and change the channel it uses.
it's a linksys 2.4ghz wireless g 802.11g with speed boost. looks like this Amazon.com: LINKSYS Wireless-G 2.4 GHz 54 Mbps Broadband Router w Speedboost WRT54GS ver.1.1: Everything Else it's not that it's un-usable slow but a youtube video takes about 10-15 sec to load when the 4g only takes about 2-3 sec, and the 4g is 1/4 the speed. TY for welcome to the forums btw 
That was another thing i updated about 6 months ago, it seemed to help our overall connection and the wife's computer, as well as our blu-ray player but the phones are still sluggish. Maybe our router just doesn't play well with phones. Any good routers you guys suggest? I've always dealt with linksys for wireless stuff.
so I decided to try every channel and I settled on number 10. It does seem faster but still not as fast as my 4g which is strange. I just find it strange to get a speed test rating of 22mbps and still be somewhat slow 
I don't know if it makes a difference but we have 30mbps internet which on a speed tst on the hard line shows 50mbps, and the router is supposed to be capable of 54mbps but only transfers at about 20mbps.
I don't know if it makes a difference but we have 30mbps internet which on a speed tst on the hard line shows 50mbps, and the router is supposed to be capable of 54mbps but only transfers at about 20mbps.That don't seem right. I use my tmobile galaxy s3 and I live like hour away from city. I'm in pollock pines ca. I usually get pings of 14 to 38 on bad day and lte speeds up to 37mbps. My comcast internet pings at 39 and max download is 24. So. I use my tmobile Lte to play ps3. Etc
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The speed you get on the internet depends on the distance between your provider and the server you're measuring the speed with. You get X mbps (the speed you're paying for) between you and your provider. That's the only thing they have any control over. With Spoeedtest.net, you're usually checking with a server that's pretty close, so you get close to what you're paying for. But if you're downloading from a server halfway around the world, or from a server with a slow connection, you're going to get a slow download. (I've been downloading from someone's private server for about half an hour now - at about 44kbps, even though I have a 20mbps connection.)
Rule of thumb these days is that a decent connection to a server not too far away will yield about 1mbps download speed (although downloading from a Microsoft server will do better, even from the east coast of the US). So why pay for more bandwidth? Because if you're downloading 2 files, you want 2mbps, or the downloads will be slower than they could be. If you have a few people in the house, each doing a few things, you want enough bandwidth (or speed - it's really the same thing) to allow everyone to do everything at maximum speed.
All that said, most of the not-top-of-the-line cellphones can't sustain 1mbps downloads, even on a good fast wifi connection. The CPU has to allocate space for the file, store the file as it's coming down, handshake with the server you're downloading from, create packets, disassemble packets, etc., etc., and that all takes CPU power. And a 600MHz CPU running less than 1GB of RAM just isn't going to be able to keep up at full speed. The better the phone, the closer to the available download speed it should be able to download at. But if you're downloading from a Commodore 64 located at the end of a bare telephone line in Slowdatastan, don't expect a fast download, even if you're running a supercomputer with a 3gbps connection.
Rule of thumb these days is that a decent connection to a server not too far away will yield about 1mbps download speed (although downloading from a Microsoft server will do better, even from the east coast of the US). So why pay for more bandwidth? Because if you're downloading 2 files, you want 2mbps, or the downloads will be slower than they could be. If you have a few people in the house, each doing a few things, you want enough bandwidth (or speed - it's really the same thing) to allow everyone to do everything at maximum speed.
All that said, most of the not-top-of-the-line cellphones can't sustain 1mbps downloads, even on a good fast wifi connection. The CPU has to allocate space for the file, store the file as it's coming down, handshake with the server you're downloading from, create packets, disassemble packets, etc., etc., and that all takes CPU power. And a 600MHz CPU running less than 1GB of RAM just isn't going to be able to keep up at full speed. The better the phone, the closer to the available download speed it should be able to download at. But if you're downloading from a Commodore 64 located at the end of a bare telephone line in Slowdatastan, don't expect a fast download, even if you're running a supercomputer with a 3gbps connection.
HEy, i landed on this forum trying to fix my issue and it didn't help...
however i fixed my home wifi issues by investigating the local LAN ip address that was assigned to my phone.
What i had discovered is that my router was assigning 192.168.0.2 to both my phone and my 2nd router.
This should never happen in a network, and im really not sure how this happened.
I forced my phone to have a different IP address and it fixed it! i am so happy now.
so, in short, make sure your phones IP address is not the same as any other devices IP address on your network.
if it is, that means both devices are fighting for the same IP, and they will continually kick one another off the network... then reconnect, kick off, rinse and repeat.
however i fixed my home wifi issues by investigating the local LAN ip address that was assigned to my phone.
What i had discovered is that my router was assigning 192.168.0.2 to both my phone and my 2nd router.
This should never happen in a network, and im really not sure how this happened.
I forced my phone to have a different IP address and it fixed it! i am so happy now.
so, in short, make sure your phones IP address is not the same as any other devices IP address on your network.
if it is, that means both devices are fighting for the same IP, and they will continually kick one another off the network... then reconnect, kick off, rinse and repeat.
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Are you sure your second router doesn't have a static IP of 192.168.0.2 and the DHCP server in the first router includes 192.168.0.2?
That's why you never assign a static IP within the DHCP range - the router will assign an IP, then a device with the same IP will try to connect and, in some cases, won't be kicked off for a duplicate IP. (Or are you running a Trend-doesn't-work-net router?)
That's why you never assign a static IP within the DHCP range - the router will assign an IP, then a device with the same IP will try to connect and, in some cases, won't be kicked off for a duplicate IP. (Or are you running a Trend-doesn't-work-net router?)
Thanks for your response...i've edited my DHCP range to start at 192.168.0.3
That would prevent my issue from occurring.
Sorry for hijacking the thread
That would prevent my issue from occurring.
Sorry for hijacking the thread
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
***android seriously needs to fix that in the next update
-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
***android seriously needs to fix that in the next update
Hi Pablo, how do you change the ip address scheme? And will it affect other devices already connected? Thanks.
EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out. Unfortunately, after successfully changing the scheme, the wifi on my Moto X still runs really slow. I don't know what to do next, I've tried just about everything mentioned in multiple forums.. This just started happening within the last couple of weeks and I've changed nothing. Every other device connected to my wifi runs fine, including an iPhone.
And when I do a speed test on my phone, the results are close to the speeds I get when connected to LTE. UGH! Not sure where to go from here.
EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out. Unfortunately, after successfully changing the scheme, the wifi on my Moto X still runs really slow. I don't know what to do next, I've tried just about everything mentioned in multiple forums.. This just started happening within the last couple of weeks and I've changed nothing. Every other device connected to my wifi runs fine, including an iPhone.
And when I do a speed test on my phone, the results are close to the speeds I get when connected to LTE. UGH! Not sure where to go from here.
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