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basslover
Explorer
My Galaxy S6 has ok wifi speed, enough to watch online videos, but in the same location the Go is so slow it takes 3 minutes to load a page of text.  Online videos don't work at all.  Any suggestions please?  Thanks!
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Anonymous
Not applicable
I had bad wifi with my Go, it turns out it really prefers 5GHz wifi, files in apps that used to take 30 minutes to download now take 5 seconds or so, streaming from PC with Skybox would constantly buffer and if you tried to jump the video forward a few minutes would take a long time to start playing again, all gone after changing our old router that was B/G wifi only to one with N and AC as well on 5GHz.

desiv
Adventurer
I haven't had any issues with WiFi.  I did go to one of those online speedtest sites just to see and was around 26Mb, which for where I am with Charter doesn't surprise me.  Not using 5ghz.

LZoltowski
Champion
My go maxes out my internet speed. This is 3 rooms away from the router (thick brick walls) ... perhaps you are using the 2Ghz spectrum?


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cybereality
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Yeah, my Go WiFi speeds have been pretty good. Maybe something with your network or location.
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basslover
Explorer
Thanks for the comments.  My router has N but not AC or 5 GHz.  I will try a different router, although I still don't understand why the Galaxy S6 phone in the same location can use the same router signal and work ok at about 45-50 Mb, and the Go is totally dysfunctional, even on text pages extremely slow.  Shouldn't the Go be able to utilize the signal as well as the S6?

Anonymous
Not applicable
My phone was getting 2 or 3 times the Mb than the Go with a massive improvement in stability, the Go bounced around.
On the new router both are faster and stable and pulling over 80 Mb in all the areas they are used multiple rooms away from the router, we have 100 Mb connection.