In light of all the recent wifi issues with the Asus Transformer Prime. I got thinking.. Would it be possible for the prime to theoretically use a USB wifi dongle as the receiver through the keyboard dock?
Obviously android since gingerbread has had USB hosting and the ability to use mice, keyboards, game controllers and other devices, but how about a USB wireless networking adapter?
Thoughts?
Interesting thought and I have no idea... For average use wifi suffices but might be a nice option when going to a place where wifi is crap (like vacation house or something).
Iwas thinking the samething. The question is would there be driver issues with the USB device?
Not quite yet
If you are simply talking about a Wireless N Wifi dongle, there would be little gain, While not the best, a properly functioning Prime gets reasonable WiFi performance. Witness mine, which I regularly see 15-20 Mbit downloads speeds, so not great, but certainly acceptable.
If insetad you want a 3G wireless stick, at the present this is not an option. Honeycomb and even ICS do not provide support for these natively, though a rooted device I believe can be made to work with 1 or 2 3G sticks. When talking 3G, the best move is just root your phone and tether to that, but watch to 300 Mb game downloads folks. AT&T will make your head spin with the $ if you go over the measly 2 Gb plan (I was grandfathered in on an "Unlimited' data plan, and lost it... no biggie, they still bust you if you repeatedly use high bandwidth.
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I was wondering if there is any other thoughts on using a USB WiFi dongle with the prime. The reason I ask is that I note several retailers are starting to get stock in the UK and I am on the verge of purchasing.
The only issue I have is the WiFi range issue as I work on an offshore oil rig which has a WiFi network and I can currently use this within my cabin on a night with my net book to surf the net. However as there are a fair few partitions and a good distance etc between the WiFi router and the cabins, I don't think the Primes WiFi range would be sufficient (based on others posting issues when they are trying to pass through a few walls).
If a USB WiFi dongle could be made to work i would buy a prime tomorrow, otherwise I think I am going to stick with the net book for a while longer and wait for another model / manufacturer with Tegra 3 (I really don't want to follow the crowd and get an Apple!)
Many thanks!
Chris
Should knlw what that could be a good idea. THERES a guy in developement thread named Saturnde. He has made a thread called new or added drivers or something. He compiled a list of new drivers into a zip file for support of new USB devices that aren't normally supported by prime. He said if you want drivers for a particular device tl let him know. He will need name of device n model number or something. Won't hurt to run it past him and see if its feasible or possible. Let us know how it goes.
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If you are simply talking about a Wireless N Wifi dongle, there would be little gain, While not the best, a properly functioning Prime gets reasonable WiFi performance. Witness mine, which I regularly see 15-20 Mbit downloads speeds, so not great, but certainly acceptable.
If insetad you want a 3G wireless stick, at the present this is not an option. Honeycomb and even ICS do not provide support for these natively, though a rooted device I believe can be made to work with 1 or 2 3G sticks. When talking 3G, the best move is just root your phone and tether to that, but watch to 300 Mb game downloads folks. AT&T will make your head spin with the $ if you go over the measly 2 Gb plan (I was grandfathered in on an "Unlimited' data plan, and lost it... no biggie, they still bust you if you repeatedly use high bandwidth.
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Can you syggest a wifi dongle that i can use in an android tablet (my tablet's wifi is "broken")
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I've got a Slingbox Pro HD, which I've used for years to stream to my Samsung Omnia and Omnia II. The framerate was always pretty bad, but I blames Verizon's ridiculously slow 3G. So, when I got the Thunderbolt, I expected to see a real improvement on 4G - but I'm not. It's still stuttery and freezes all the time, sometimes for 20-30 seconds. It's never smooth.
I've got cable at home, speed tests at about 3-4Mbps up. The T-bolt tests at 15+Mbps down. Plenty of bandwidth. SPM plays fine over WIFI at home, but on 3G or 4G, it's purely awful.
My setup is a Comcast DTA box connected via coax to the Slingbox. The Slingbox is connected to a DIR-655N lan port with Cat6 cable. The DIR-655N WAN port runs to the cable modem (SB6120) with Cat6 cable.
I've got the port forwarding set up (port 5001 to the SB TCP/UDP). I've tried with QOS enabled and disabled. I've tried with the SB set up in DMZ. Multicast enabled and disabled (don't know why that would affect it, but tried anyway).
I'm pulling my hair out, and I refuse to pay Sling another penny (they made me pay for a new license to switch to android, after assuring me when I bought the WinMo license, I could transfer it to any future device, regardless of OS). Anyone got any ideas?
I use it myself and have since back when the first one was released. Yes Wi-Fi always works better. I find fr myself that if I stay still and put it down, and stay at same signal strength it seems to work with very little stutter, other wise i get stutter.. but for the most part I irelaize what it's tryign to do and live with. it. That's just me...
I understand what you're saying, but its beyond that. I was trying to watch the football game yesterday, and it was literally unwatchable. I had three out of four bars of 4g, and it wouldn't stream for more than 2 seconds without freezing, often for more than 5-10 seconds. It wasn't just jumpy, it was awful.
Just to check, I went to speedtest.net, and checked bandwidth. 20Mbps down, 4Mbps up.
I mentioned the WiFi just to show the problem was limited to cellular network streaming.
I realize I'm not going to get 24fps 1080p, but it should be watchable.
I also had this problem. I seemed to have fixed it by changing the socket in which it was connected to on my router(just moved it over 1 spot),cleared it right up and its smooth as butter
I have used slingox and vulkano, and I would take vulkano any day. Stream very nice on charge and thunderbolt. On my Acer Tablet it stream near HD with 3+mbs and looks awesome with HDMI out to TV. I use this setup for tailgating, no more carrying around my satellite. Plus it is cheaper setup than sling.
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I have used slingox and vulkano, and I would take vulkano any day. Stream very nice on charge and thunderbolt. On my Acer Tablet it stream near HD with 3+mbs and looks awesome with HDMI out to TV. I use this setup for tailgating, no more carrying around my satellite. Plus it is cheaper setup than sling.
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Thanks. I'll try the LAN port switch like above first. I've been looking in to Vulkano already, but with the job going away at the end of the year, I can't justify any purchases like that. Might have to do away with the smartphones all together.
Sling really is a poor customer service company. First, they didn't honor their word about being able to move my spm license to any other smartphone, making me buy the android version coming from wimmo. Then, they want me to pay for any tech support. They never answer emails. I really would like to drop them for Vulkano.
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Dont feel bad I bought a copy for my WinMo phone, my iPhone, iPad and now Android
I use it on both my Thunderbolt and my Tab 10.1 (with the respective version for each). I have a Slingbox Solo.
I haven't had issues with video quality over 4G on either device (Tab tethered).
I have the old sling player solo. lol every time I start it up I'll get a message saying my device is incompatible, but it still works. Mine works fine unless I'm downloading something at home.
I once went the route of monsoon (vulcano) I have a Hava. never worked well, no support. I would have trouble going to their re-branded vulcano as I would expect the same.
I have an older version of slingbox - I get the incompatible message when I fire up my slingplayer on my TBolt, but my streaming over 4G is fantastic.
If you are using IP on Powerline adapter, you may want to consider the slinglink turbo.
I used to use some old netgear XE103's and my streaming was horrible. I upgraded to slinglink turbo's recently and upgraded my home network to UVerse highspeed and now my streaming is awesome - no interruptions at all watching a 3.5 hr football game on 4G.
Edit: I reread OP and see you have cat6 going directly to the slingbox. I am in same boat on the licensing - was an early adopter of the winmo slingplayer and helped beta test the android version. But still had to pay for license! I also am using port forwarding on my router - I just route port 5001 on TCP to my SBox. From sbox to dvr using composite cables.
What are your up load speeds from router side? Slingbox will can show at 256 k but the higher the uploading the better the quality when you use your mobile device to download. I have 1.5 mb upload from home then using thunderbolt phone and tethering to the (wifi) Xoom have only 3 second delay from the accual TV set. I also have the video quality set to high in settings not automatic.
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I'm a network engineer, so I know a thing or two about WiFi and what not but this has got me scratching my head.
For the life of me I can't get my Nook tablet to connect a speeds greater than 54Mbps via WiFi. I've got my Galaxy tab next to the thing and it's connecting at 65Mbps.
It's not an issue of frequency I actually disabled 5GHz spectrum on my AP to check. The AP is a Cisco 1142 dual radio 802.11a/b/g/n WAP. But I've also tried with a Cisco/Linksys e1000, and a netgear what-cha-call-it at a friend's house. No dice on WiFi speeds above 54Mbps
Even my Xperia play connects at 802.11n 2.4GHz speeds.
I'm running 1.4.0 Rooted if that helps. Plenty of reboots to kill a cow if anyone thinks that's the problem.
I'm thinking that B&N have the nook locked to 802.11g speeds.
What do you all think?
Something is up with the wifi for sure. If you google nook tablet wifi problems, you get a ton of hits. I could get my nook tablet to connect to my router but could not get the internet to work on the tablet. After rebooting the router and the nook several times, changing several router settings and doing everything under the son, I finally changed my security from the N to the G only setting ( Dont really remember which is was) and this fixed it. Keep in mind my android phone, my wifes blackberry, my playstation 3, my friends mac book and my in laws ipad have had 0 problems connecting to my router. I think its safe to say its the nook tablet.
Yeah I've seen the issues with the WiFi on Google and even here on XDA, but everybody seems to be having issues with not connecting, or connections get muddled up and they have to reboot their nook.
I'm still thinking Barnes & Nobel deliberately throttled the WiFi to support only 54Mbps max. Although I have no clue as to why they would do that.
yea i think they capped all the hardware cuz even the sound is low but when rooting and using a android media player its way louder
Hmm... I wonder where items like connection speed, and volume would have their parameters kept. I wonder if with Root one could edit them?
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Hmm... I wonder where items like connection speed, and volume would have their parameters kept. I wonder if with Root one could edit them?
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Tweaks can be done i think.
Where to look? : system/build.prop and system/etc/
Hello,
Here comes a noob question I guess. Is it possible by moding the nook tablet say with CW7 to use the usb stick in order to attach a usb stick that will give 3g internet? Similarly to what you do with a laptop when you need 3g capabilities.
I'd imagine one would rather use a portable hotspot isn't that pretty much the standard now-a-days?
Well, since I am will be using it in situations that the less I carry the better (i.e., borring army service) I would rather use the stick. Still I didn't know about the hotspot. Good to know they exist.
How would you connect the stick?
if you are carrying around a rooted android based smartphone you can always tether your nook to that for 3g
OMAP4430 CPU, whick Nook Tablet has, supports USB OTG, so could act as the host for 3g stick. However, there're many obstacles on that way:
1. There may be few USB ports in OMAP, not all having OTG capability, and it's unclear which is connected externally on NT.
2. I personally yet have to see a microUSB to USB female cable, if someone has a link, I'd appreciate it.
3. You most likely would need to recompile kernel to enable OTG support as well as drivers for 3g modems.
4. Would need 3g connection app on your Nook (suppose the easiest, as there should be few for Android).
So, it may be too complicated if you just look towards using it at once, but for should would be a fun hacking project ;-)
Thanks guys for the suggestions. I guess it did not occur to me the whole tethering deal (probably because nook is the my first android powered device). I guess I will go with that option once I get a new android phone.
I heard Nexus 7 had chance to connect 3G OTG, will the nook tablet have any chance?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798631
I recently purchased a M8S PRO as my android tv box. I upgrade [purchased it] specifically because it supports 5ghz and i thought the wifi would perform better.
However whether Im streaming with the browser or even playing movies off my nas i have latency issues
I believe this is due to the internal wifi chip because i also have a nvidia shield tablet which has none of these issues even if i put it in the same location as the M8S PRO
Should I buy a range extender or a new wifi dongle for it (like this one)?
Does Android support more then one wifi adapter? Will i be able to disable the internal one?
Or should i try a custom rom (i dont see how this will help but maybe im wrong about it being a hardware issue)?
Try various configuration in your router, you can try 20 or 40 mhz bandwidth, maybe disable legacy modes and use AC only, I had issues before with 5Ghz when legacy modes were enabled like A B or G. let me know, as I just purchased this box and im still waiting for it. , also you can check the 2.4GHz band.
regards.
screw these dam things
as far as i can tell the wifi chip in this thing sucks
i put the dam thing right next to the router and its still horrible
topping out at 400-500 kb/s on lan transfers over a minimum presence 5ghz wifi
sorry for late reponse, i was loading lede onto my router and trying other things to fix the issues i have with this device playing items across the lan (via samba)
The 90s called Asus about them returning the usb2.0 speeds, but I guess no one at the company picked the phone, and now the zenfone 9 is stuck with that.
Or maybe Asus systems designers thought, "let's keep it smaller by saving usb 3.0 or 3.1 speeds because via wifi 6e the phone is already able of doing up to 9.6gbps speeds and wifi is the future."
Can someone do some benchmarks on wifi 6, by locally transferring some big files, and post their results? This is kind of an important factor to know for people who are thinking of shooting many 8k videos, or (what I am thinking of) edit 360 videos via insta360 app, and then being able to transfer large files to the pc.
usb2.0 to transfer those large files is a deal breaker, absence of sd card slot with good speeds could be an alternative, but no: We are left with the wireless options that, theoretically, are the answer but in practice I'd like to see some tests.
Thanks!
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The 90s called Asus about them returning the usb2.0 speeds, but I guess no one at the company picked the phone, and now the zenfone 9 is stuck with that.
Or maybe Asus systems designers thought, "let's keep it smaller by saving usb 3.0 or 3.1 speeds because via wifi 6e the phone is already able of doing up to 9.6gbps speeds and wifi is the future."
Can someone do some benchmarks on wifi 6, by locally transferring some big files, and post their results? This is kind of an important factor to know for people who are thinking of shooting many 8k videos, or (what I am thinking of) edit 360 videos via insta360 app, and then being able to transfer large files to the pc.
usb2.0 to transfer those large files is a deal breaker, absence of sd card slot with good speeds could be an alternative, but no: We are left with the wireless options that, theoretically, are the answer but in practice I'd like to see some tests.
Thanks!
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All Xiaomi devices even with 12S Ultra also only USB 2.0, OnePlus 10T and even iPhone 14 for example. There are more devices with old spec USB than you might think.
Back to the wifi transfer. I only have wifi 6. Using Asus file transfer and I got about 20 MB/s.
Maybe there is a better way but for now that's what I got
be sure to turn on dual band wifi to maybe get your wifi to hit a gigabit.