Why is tethering slow

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For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Status Not open for further replies. Previous Next Sort by votes. Apr 4, 3 0 0. Im currently using USB tethering to my pc but the speed is super slow which is so frustrating. Avi Makritsu Reputable. Jan 18, 9 0 4, 2. I experienced a similar issue too once where the connection works initially but suddenly drops to a crawl. The EE Community. Ask, Answer, Learn, Share.

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Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. EE Community. About the EE Community. EE Community news. Hobbies and interests. Community maintenance. Your ideas to improve the community. Other phones, gadgets, tablets and wearables. SIM cards. The most common issue, however, is how your hotspot device is configured. The broadcast setting on your phone has an effect on your connection and speed. There are two main broadcast frequencies your Android phone has: 2.

Knowing just a bit about these frequencies can affect how quickly or slowly you can access the internet. Changing a simple setting could let you better share your phone's 4G or 5G connection with others.

Using your phone as a hotspot gives you an internet connection anywhere, and one that's far more secure than using free public Wi-Fi. But if you have an Android phone, you might not be getting the fastest speeds you can, which means that websites on your laptop or tablet, for example, load much slower than they could. Testing out Sprint and Verizon's 5G networks in Chicago in , I was curious to see what would happen when sharing the speedy connections with a 4G-limited iPhone over Wi-Fi. While the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G on Sprint pulled in fairly consistent download speeds between and Mbps throughout the day and an S10 5G on Verizon getting between Mbps and Mbps the iPhone was having a hard time getting past 30Mbps.

So what gives? Switching to 5GHz on the mobile hotspot, I saw download speeds jump. While this was in , you could still be encountering the same issue in with 2. A quick switch to 5GHz nearly tripled the throughput, boosting the connection to Mbps in the same location.