Improve Wi-Fi Speed!

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by BigDiesel07

Here is a great tweak that speeds up your Wi-Fi.. It works by enabling the “g mode” of your device’s WLAN card (disabled by default on most devices). This hack has proven to improve Wi-Fi speeds by 3 times..

Iinstall the attached .CAB to the device, then soft reset. It will change the value of dot11SupportedRateMaskG from the default 4 (1 in some cases) to 8 inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\COMM\TNETWLN1\PARMS.
Note: Some devices don't have that structure in the registry. If it's your case, our cab will create it automatically.

I do not take credit for the creation of this.. I merely happened to find this at the site linked above and thought to post it here..

can you out this cab into a Zip file for me? My job wont let us download cab files for some reason after our last firewall update last week.

[BigDiesel07]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

can you out this cab into a Zip file for me? My job wont let us download cab files for some reason after our last firewall update last week.

Yeah.. Here it is..

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by BigDiesel07

Yeah.. Here it is..

thanks, bro. I dont know why the new firewall is doing this. The last one didnt.

[shaun0207]

Originally Posted by BigDiesel07

No problem.. Happy to help a fellow 'Geeker! Hopefully they fix it

hopefully. I maybe the only one complaining.

[BigDiesel07]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

hopefully. I maybe the only one complaining.

Were you able to test and install the .CAB? It seems to work..

[txstornado]

how exactly do u install this and where? A pretty good decription would b great......... Thank You in advance

[esqueue]

I did some before and after testing transferring files over the network from my computer to my TP. The file is a 47.3 megabyte avi file transferred to the temp folder in my phone. The times are exact to the second.

I used a network connection as it usually pushes the connection to the max. 802.11b has a max speed of 11megabits per second granted that there is no overhead. Of course actual speeds are slower but even 6 megabits per second is you shouldn't see any internet slowdown.

Before: 3 minutes and 3 seconds
After: 3 minutes and 2 seconds & 3 minutes 0 seconds

Hmmm, disappointing results. My personal tests say that it doesn't help improve speeds in anyway. That is insanely slow. that is actually slower than my internet. Something is bottlenecking the **** out of my speeds here.

EDIT: I just realized that my router was set to G prior to installing this regedit. (That's my my Axim x30 couldn't connect) Surprisingly the mogul connected as I haven't messed with my router for months. TP always connected to g just not g speeds.

EDIT2: I uninstalled the regedit and got 3 minutes and 1 second but decided to change wi-fi power mode to best performance and only yielded 2 minutes 59 seconds. Not worth the possible battery drain.

[dr g]

The Touch Pro seems to lack this key -- doesn't this mean that the WiFi adaptor has a different model number, and that installing this cab/creating the key does nothing?

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by dr g

The Touch Pro seems to lack this key -- doesn't this mean that the WiFi adaptor has a different model number, and that installing this cab/creating the key does nothing?

100% correct the cab points to a driver only the touch HD uses.

[elmerfudpucker]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

can you out this cab into a Zip file for me? My job wont let us download cab files for some reason after our last firewall update last week.

Same here bro, I feel your pain.