Slow WiFi Connection on N80?

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migluciuke

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OK, I've had my N80 for a few weeks, but only just yesterday have been able to test out the wi-fi on it.

The issue: it's really slow! Barely faster than EDGE. When I do a big download from the internet or a local PC, it's not coming in nearly as fast as when I try the same download on my laptop. I have been using the built in web browser (not the WAP one) and Moby Explorer.

Is this typical? Or do I need to adjust some settings?

My wireless router is set up for WPA-PSK, and it seems to be working great, but just slow. Bummer.
 
Wifi on N80 supports both B and G. It is normal that the speed is slower before the phone doesn't have the same processing power as PC.
 
What Siapi said is correct. Processing power has a huge factor in it. I've got the verizon fios 30mb download/5mb upload and it's faster than my old cable connection but not by much. Downloading podcasts and apps from the catalog is where you will see a dramatic improvement in speed.
 
Unfortunately the processing speed will always hinder our handsets!!
My 770 has some issues loading some sites quickly due to it's processor and it's made for the frkn web!!
 
I'd be pretty ticked off if the N80 didn't have G cause then I would be wondering why the hell my laptop WIFI speed is retarded.
 
I'd be kind of surprised if any of the S60v3 phones actually have 802.11g.

I've done a few throughput tests via WiFi and I've never gotten much more than 1 mbit/s. So if it is using "g", its using it in one of its slowest configurations which kind of defeats the purpose.
 
On a test with my N80ie, I saw speeds of 1.6 mbit/sec. Which was only slightly slower than the normal internet connection my desktop computer gets through the Telus DSL (theoretical 2.5 mbit/sec)
 
I dont think so..My old E61 connected with 1.6 and my N80ie is pretty much the same....well it was...I just upgraded my net to verizon fios and havent tested the new speed yet. I've got 30mb downloads and 5mb uploads so I would hope it's faster. I'll test it and let everyone know.
 
Exactly my case (I have 2.5 mbit at home too), but with an E61 ... That was before the update though. Now I'm finding it quite slow to be honest.... But then again, I'm seeing everything worse after the update to v3, so that's probably just me..
 
Whether you connect on G or B with a cell phone, you will see no difference in throughput. Like these guys said, it's limited by processing power. B can handle 11mb/s and g can handle 54 mb/s. It's not suprising to me that these guys are getting no more than 1.6mb/s on their handsets as that is probably the max the processor can munch on at once.

Don't forget too that the Internet connection on the other side of that wifi access point is probably 1.5, 3, or maybe 5 mb/s which would limit your throughput from the web to that amount anyway.

The only way one can derive advantage from G over B is if they are transferring files from a machine on the (W)LAN or have an Internet connection over 11mb/s and both of those would have to be accomplished on a device capable of processing more than 11mb/s.
 
OK, I take back what I said. I just configured the Nokia Podcast app to for This American Life (thislife.org) and it downloaded a 28 meg file in less than 2 minutes :-)

Interesting thread, nonetheless!
 
siapi: Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but since G is backwards compatible with B, products frequently claim G support even though they really mean B.

anville: So by my calculations, that comes out to ~1.87 mbit/s. Not exactly 802.11g speeds. (but not too shabby either, I mean cummon guys, its a phone!) What you were seeing earlier was the slow rendering engine in the browser.
 
What you are saying doesn't make sense to me. You first said G includes both G and B, then you said B is G.

From my experience, a wireless network card that only supports B can't connect to a G only wireless network.
 
Let me try rephrasing: 802.11b products can interoperate with 802.11g products (obviously at 802.11b datarates). I have seen settings on routers that allowing banning 802.11b users from the network, but I don't believe that is the normal operating mode for an 802.11g network.

Product manufacturers sometimes use this to claim that their 802.11b product is 802.11g compatible.

The fact of the matter is that these phone's protocol stack can't seem to handle more than 1-2 mbit/s which is not even max throughput for 802.11b, so this whole "does my phone support 802.11b or g" discussion is an academic point that is pretty irrelevant in practice.
 
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