help on wifi speed

[wizzleteet]

Hi All,

I was wondering, does anybody have tips on how I can improve the wifi speed on the HTC touch ?
Playback over SMB with tcpmp is jerky at best, moving/copying files with total commander is just plain slow.

I tried installing the htc universal WIFI G MODE ON hack, to no avail.

help is appreciated,

grtz
wzzl

[saurav_bose]

Hi All,

I was wondering, does anybody have tips on how I can improve the wifi speed on the HTC touch ?
Playback over SMB with tcpmp is jerky at best, moving/copying files with total commander is just plain slow.

I tried installing the htc universal WIFI G MODE ON hack, to no avail.

help is appreciated,

grtz
wzzl


increase the buffer memory in tcpmp. by going to >>options/settings/select page/buffering/increse normal buffer to atleast 5000kb/ull have ur solution.

[wizzleteet]

Thanks, I tried to increase the buffer before, just not by that much. It helped.
Leaves the file copying speed.
Basically I want to transfer ,say, 500 mB of new music every morning.
With a true 54mbs connection it is doable, but the actual speed feels like activesync transfer.

Could it also be the writing speed to the microSD ?
Can I measure/see the real transfer speed somewhere ?

grtz wzzl

[rmklay]

Anyone know a solution to this problem? I also have trouble copying files to/from the HTC touch, both over WiFi and BlueTooth. Copying about 1 MB/minute right now or so, which is not satisfactory. BT actually tends to be a bit faster.
Does buying a faster SD card help? I've tried copying files to the build-in memory and that is slow too.
Would be great if someone could help me with this.

[benchmark75]

Thanks, I tried to increase the buffer before, just not by that much. It helped.
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Actually the support forums for TCPMP player actually recommend you decreasing the buffer - see here- http://www.ytpocket.com/install.php

check your wifi connection speed by clicking "speedtest" at blue-mobile.com


my current speed is 838.9kbps and its running fine.

[rmklay]

check your wifi connection speed by clicking "speedtest" at blue-mobile.com
Tried testing it on my touch, but it says "Testing your current Bandwidth" and wont tell me the bandwith. Been this way for about 5 minutes now. I do, however have laptop on wifi and copying/moving files to and from that computer works like a charm, so it must be something with the touch. How do I select which work group to be in? Is there a faster file browser than the build-in one?

[rmklay]

fiddled a bit with my router and it seems to be faster now.. copied 10 mb's of mp3 in about a minute so alot faster. I'll try a 400 mb file now and see how that works out.

[rmklay]

Transfering about 438 MB now, almost done, has taken about a half hour, so its just below 2 Mbit, not even close to 54 Mbit. Its acceptable though. Maybe a faster SD card will help?

[mtn_lion]

I, too, am interested in whether there's any way to improve my Touch's WiFi performance. Depending on distance from my Linksys WAP54G access point, I get 600-800kbps reported by the blue-mobile speed test. That's fine for an Internet connection but doesn't really tell you anything about the device's WiFi speed on your wireless network, which should, theoretically, easily be ten times that.

I'm now downloading 65MB of music from a network share on my LAN, and the transfer is reporting between 50-60kBytes/second. That's seems really low--again, like a decent Internet speed but not like even an 11Mbps WiFi.

I coulda sworn last night I saw 150-200kBytes/second when transfering some music to the Touch from the same network share. Don't know why I'm not seeing that now, but even that is still way slow for a WLAN.

OK, those are my results. I know there are a lot of variables involved--mostly, I suspect, the handheld's CPU. I'd like to know what other people are getting and if anyone has ideas for getting better performance. And yes, my wireless setting is on "max performance." ;-)

[mtn_lion]

rmklay - What did you do to your router to get up to ~2Mbps?

[ipshaiteg]

I also noticed that my Touch does only around 100kb/s (1 mbit) through wifi, eventhough I get almost 5 mbits on laptop. very sad… I think it's software limitation.