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So I have a 5g sim in my Galaxy S21.
When I do a speed test it gets around 200mps on the phone.
However, if I connect a PC via mobile hotspot, this drops to around 50mps.
Any ideas on how to improve it?
I used to find having Bluetooth enabled would slow the hotpot connection speed massively. Might be worth trying disable it for a test.Â
@K Tried that but no difference. Thanks for the try though.
However, if I connect a PC via mobile hotspot, this drops to around 50mps.
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50Mbps on the phone or the PC?
Wireless properties / enable metered connection? The PC dragging loads of bandwidth is going to mean that it's slower on the phone itself.
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50 on the PC.
Sometimes over 200 on the phone.
Tried the metered connection no difference.
Thanks for the try.
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It could just be the nature of the beast then. Is it connecting at 2.4GHz rather than 5? Have you got a different phone you can compare with?
50Mbps isn't exactly slow for a single device.
Thanks @Cougar - Didn't realise you could switch to a 5Ghz hotspot?
I'm now getting about 140 Mbps
I know 50Mbps isn't "slow", my FTTC broadband doesn't give much more than that and I have no problems at home.
I now have a 5G router at home, I'm close to the mast and get excellent speed.
They upgraded the mast a couple of months ago, added 5G and now you can get 100Mbps on 4G.
Good good.
The dowside to 5GHz is that it tails off rapidly over distance, but that's a moot point if you're using a hotspot a foot away.