Is Wifi terrible on all Icons?

[Starrbuck]

I would say it means a lot. How can that not mean much? And apps show the signal strength on the Icon to be the weakest. Problem is I couldn't find the same signal strength app for both Android and Windows. It's not a big deal to me as I was planning on getting a wider range router anyways. But for this many people to have the exact same issue, I believe its an issue. And I believe Nokia does as well. I just hope we get a fix for it sooner than later.

I believe you answered your own question. ;-)

 

[radmanvr]

I am just here to say that I have no issues with my Xbox One, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, 2 Icons (one belonging to the wife), and 2 PCs being on WiFi, but then again I have like a $130 router.

 

[Kage Maru]

It could just be because of my use case at the time. I was constantly moving from in WiFi to off WiFi to bad cellular to good cellular in the matter of minutes for hours at a time.

Sounds like it wasn't exactly the setting you were using but instead the unstable signals being sent to the phone. When it's constantly trying to find the strongest signal (carrier or WiFi), that's a guaranteed way to kill your battery. Anything that causes the phone to "search" will impact the battery actually. That's why I turn off WiFi discovery and instead manually tell it to connect when I suspect a WiFi may be near.

 

[MobileVortex]

If you can afford it I HIGHLY recommend this router. I have 2 laptops 2 phones 2 tablest an xbox one and 360 all running at the same time with 0 issues. Also the firmware is light years above any other manufacture.

i have a 1.5 acre lot and i get 5bars everywhere i go in my house/yard.

 

[Kieta]

If you can afford it I HIGHLY recommend this router. I have 2 laptops 2 phones 2 tablest an xbox one and 360 all running at the same time with 0 issues. Also the firmware is light years above any other manufacture.

i have a 1.5 acre lot and i get 5bars everywhere i go in my house/yard.

I'm actually debating between that one, the AC56U or the NetGear AC1600. Newegg has been having a lot of modem/router bundle deals lately, waiting on one with the SB6141 modem.

 

[Starrbuck]

I have the RT-N66U with Shibby's firmware and it's wonderful. I have no wi-fi issues at home.

 

[MobileVortex]

If you can do the price hike i would go with the AC band, its crazy fast.

 

[jlzimmerman]

My wifi has been great so far.

 

[Kage Maru]

I just did a test between my Icon and my coworkers' Iphone 4S and we got comparable speeds on WiFi.

 

[macroweb]

I have a Razer Blade gaming laptop which has some optimization software built-in, with cellular data off on my Icon, using Speedtest.net, my Icon averaged 30% LESS on the download side and 10% LESS on the upload side. I have AT&T U-Verse, with an AT&T provided wireless router.

This is very disappointing, any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Starrbuck]

Mine's working great! My Internet speed is 50/5.

 

[quantum tao]

Signal strength meters across three devices being different doesn't mean much. Maybe find an app that shows you the actual signal level and compare those.

is there an app that does this? I couldn't find one.

 

[Starrbuck]

is there an app that does this? I couldn't find one.

None that I'm aware of. That's part of what makes it so bogus. Three bars on a Nokia is not the same as 3 bars on another Nokia, not to mention an iPhone, Samsung, etc. The significance of the bars is different across devices.

 

[bmetelsky]

I have no wi-fi problems on my Icon.

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[Lost_Cosmonaut]

My Icon regularly registers only one or two bars of WiFi even when my iPhone and Surface are showing excellent signal. It still "works" (confirmed by making sure "use cell data if WiFi is weak" was off) but it's kinda troublesome.

 

[MobileVortex]

I'm having this same issue. Low bars and signal strength on my icon. I can have my 928 right next to it and its full bars. I'm hoping Cyan will fix this.

 

[Lost_Cosmonaut]

All of the sudden mine is showing a proper solid connection. Weird.

 

[AR2186]

Mine gets poor reception compared to my iPhone, HTC One and my girlfriends 928

 

[anon(7901790)]

Yep. Excellent performance. My Icon was getting consistent 20Mbps+ download speeds, whereas my Surface Pro was getting around 10Mbps on the exact same network and frequency band (5.8GHz).

 

[bmetelsky]

Excellent Wi-Fi performance here as well.

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