Painfully Slow WiFi on Omnia

[Guest indyjones]

Hi all my first post here ;)

I got myself a new phone today the shiny new omnia :wacko: 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)

Cheers :(

[Guest phillipxenxciel]

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.

[Guest Hendrickson]

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

[Guest indyjones]

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....

[Guest lastnikita]

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

[Guest indyjones]

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

Will do tonight, thank you

[Guest indyjones]

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?

[Guest evilworm]

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...

Edited September 13, 2008 by evilworm

[Guest lastnikita]

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)

[Guest indyjones]

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........

[Guest evilworm]

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...

Edited September 14, 2008 by evilworm

[Guest psionandy]

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 ;)

[Guest Kristian25]

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

[Guest psionandy]

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 ?

[Guest psionandy]

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.

[Guest psionandy]

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.

[Guest indyjones]

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.

[Guest dwallersv]

I'm having the same problem on my home network... Linksys WRT600N dual-band router. I've tried everything I can think of in terms of security configs. I can't even get it to connect with WPA-PSK2 -- it just says "connecting" forever.

I can connect with an open, completely unsecured network, and get sub 100kbps speeds while sitting right next to the router and 4 bars of signal strength showing in the WiFi applet on the Omnia.

As another datapoint, connecting to an open, unsecured network in the Capitola, CA mall I got respectable 600-700kbps speeds.

This is really annoying. It implies some sort of config problem on either the Omnia or the WRT600N, but I can't figure out what it is. What's worse, no other device (and there are plenty -- computers, xbox360, Roku Netflix streamer, etc. etc.) has any problem on the network -- just this damn Omnia.

I can live with it for now, 'cause I get 600-700kbps routinely on EVDO in my locale. Still, I'd much prefer to save those bits transfers for times I'm truly without an alternative.

[Guest Patrick Dias]

Hi all my first post here :rolleyes:

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)

Cheers :(

Did you try to change at wifi adapters from "work" to "Internet" some times this could speed up your connection.

Try Start - Settings - Connectinos - Wi-Fi (icon) - Network Adapters (at botton) - and in "my network card connects to" select "The Internet". and see if improve your connection.

Cheers

[Guest carry93]

Not sure if this can help. I see there is registry change options for 802.11g to be activated or deactivated. But I can't find the exact location where to change it now. Hope this can help.

[Guest gam3ra]

I have the same problem, try with no password or diferent types, but its very slow... It's not from the router, tryed in others too. The laptop have no problem with my router

[Guest Meen]

I think the problem may be at your radio ROM because I use DXHK1 ROM and I can watch avi movie at bitrate 400+kbps via WIFI.

[Guest kav]

Not sure if this can help. I see there is registry change options for 802.11g to be activated or deactivated. But I can't find the exact location where to change it now. Hope this can help.

u can activate the 802.11g wifi by installing sktools. then in tuneup>network settings> enable wifi 802.11g - yes.

it increases the signal strength.

[Guest robsonalan]

I have had the same problem with wireless speed on my Omnia.

At home I have a Netgear Wireless router, I can connect to it without too much of a problem but just never get any throughput.

I have tried it with a BT Home Hub, Orange Box, US Robotics and they all connect and get a good speed throughput. All of these were running WEP or WPA.

The config used to connect to the Netgear Wireless router is fine, as it does connect and does get an IP Address. When I try to ping the phone more often it times out but sometimes gets a response. All other wireless devices that I use connect to the netgear without a problem.

So I connected another Wireless Accesspoint into my home network, configured it with WEP and Mac filtering and the phone connects into it without any problem an gets a good throughput.

All I can think is that there is some incompatability between this phone and certain wireless configurations and setups. The Netgear wireless router that it has a problem with accepts all sorts of connections and is fully configurable with many encryption methods and can use open, shared or mixed authentication. I even removed all encryption and filtering and the phone still could not connect to it.