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indyjones

Sep 7 2008, 21:40

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Hi all my first post here

I got myself a new phone today the shiny new omnia

I was trying the web browsers (both) earlier but I have found that the web browser are painfully slow at displaying web pages, a 56k modem would be quicker.... am I doing something wrong here or is this just the wifi speed of this device. (Even my nintendo ds browser is quicker)

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phillipxenxciel

Sep 7 2008, 21:48

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run a speed test connected to wifi in www.dslreports.com/mspeed , u should get atleast 700kbps~~and made sure u are using wifi and not GPRS.

Hendrickson

Sep 7 2008, 21:55

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Well....Clearly something wrong, sounds like your viewing these pages via 2G or 3g and you think its Wifi....

Check that Opera is using your wifi connection not 3g

indyjones

Sep 8 2008, 08:54

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Thanks for the replies

I am fairly sure it was using WiFi as I had disabled all other internet access using the (NoData) tool from this site. Despite this it was still really really slow. Seemed to take ages to find a website rather than the rendering speed....

lastnikita

Sep 8 2008, 09:19

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check out pocketspeedtest from xda-dev board, it will tell ya

indyjones

Sep 8 2008, 12:45

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QUOTE(lastnikita @ Sep 8 2008, 10:19)

check out pocketspeedtest from xda-dev board, it will tell ya

Will do tonight, thank you

indyjones

Sep 9 2008, 20:14

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Right tried the tool sitting about 1m away from my router (all other wifi devices work fine) and its 0.1kbs

using nodata all gprs and 3G are disabled, plus its an orange card in a vodafone phone so the accounts are wrong. Do I have a duff phone surely my wifi should be quicker?

evilworm

Sep 13 2008, 16:31

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I'm having exactly the same problem. Phone connects to wifi access point, but the speed is terrible. Whenever I try to ping the device from a LAN pc, it shows up about 90% packet loss. Pinging anything from the device with PocketPing works very well and without any packet loss. I went over to my friend and tried his access poing and it seemed a lot better, however with some slowdowns too... it looks like it is related somehow to the access point or with some hidden registry settings on the device... also there are a lot of TX errors on the access point...

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lastnikita

Sep 14 2008, 10:32

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you may want to try to connect to an unsecured wifi network, to check if it could be software (but it sounds like it's not)

indyjones

Sep 14 2008, 11:05

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well vodafone are going to replace the handset for me, and I will see how the replacement one runs. I do have a feeling its hardware as it is defiantly an intermittent issue as in the week I have had the phone twice out of dozens of times the wifi has been acceptable. The gps has only worked once though........

evilworm

Sep 14 2008, 19:07

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I will probably try to get a replace too, because wifi is only a tip of the iceberg - whenever my unit gets a bit warm, motion sensor doesn't work anymore and there is also famous "cant wake up after suspend" problem... I have to do soft reset every time I want to use the device

nothing has helped, tried several hard resets, firmware upgrades...

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psionandy

Sep 14 2008, 19:44

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Running a t-mobile device here... and its the same.

Much lower signal strength than my vario III even when in the same room as the router... And it seems to take ages to download podcasts from the internet.

Its a shame as otherwise it would be my perfect device

Kristian25

Sep 15 2008, 05:08

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Try changing the encryption on your w-lan.. test with the different ones, this made a world of difference for me!

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Sep 15 2008, 07:13

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QUOTE(Kristian25 @ Sep 15 2008, 06:08)

Try changing the encryption on your w-lan.. test with the different ones, this made a world of difference for me!

what settings are you using ?

psionandy

Sep 16 2008, 20:24

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Having spent some time changing settings on my router... and swapping the router for some more proffesional kit (that includes signal strength meters) I think the problem seems to be with the rather short range of the wifi in the omnia. The signal seems to drop off dramatically within a few meters distance and putting a brick wall between me and the router is a bad idea (but MrsPsionandy claims its a supporting wall and doesn't want me to knock a hole in it)

If the signal strength is high enough the performance is great,,, but as it gets lower i suspect packets get lost and hence much much lower speeds.

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Sep 18 2008, 12:58

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And thats the killer for me... I love this phone, but the wifi performance is not acceptable. So we're going to split. It was a fun whilrlwind romantic fling.

Omnia is going back to her mothers (t-mobile) and I'm going back to my old lady (the vario III). I probably should buy it something to say sorry.

indyjones

Sep 18 2008, 13:22

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heheh, still waiting for my replacement from Vodafone. Been over a week now so I am not impressed. Unfortunatly I don't have option for changing my security settings as some of my devices such as the Nintendo DS only connect with WEP.

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