Galaxy s2 wifi signal

Wepohn · 20 Jan 2012 at 22:47

Hey guys, jus' wondering if anyone else is getting a really poor signal on their gs2. Mines is almost always 1 bar but if I rotate it to landscape it shifts up to two bars. Despite this it seems to be performing well.

reflux · 20 Jan 2012 at 23:38

The aerials are in the base of the phone. So that's probably why you get better signal when you rotate it.

It's not the best phone for wi-fi reception tbh.

brummie · 21 Jan 2012 at 00:48

reflux said:
It's not the best phone for wi-fi reception tbh.

Based on what evidence? Mine is great. I get a better signal than i do with my laptop.

james.miller · 21 Jan 2012 at 10:15

brummie said:
Based on what evidence? Mine is great. I get a better signal than i do with my laptop.

a lot of people say that, myself included. m s2 ist as good as my iphone, or the gf's blackberry, or my hp touchpad, or my laptop....they just arent as hot on signal.

reflux · 21 Jan 2012 at 10:36

brummie said:
Based on what evidence? Mine is great. I get a better signal than i do with my laptop.

Other people's and my own experience.

Robbo · 21 Jan 2012 at 10:40

The Galaxy S II wifi isn't as strong as other devices. That isn't to say it's bad though.

This is a fairly well documented issue, at least it was when the phone was released.

brummie · 21 Jan 2012 at 10:47

reflux said:
Other people's and my own experience.

Well definately nor mine or several of,my mates opinions. Maybe your doing it wrong.

Robbo · 21 Jan 2012 at 10:51

As the OP said - "despite this, it seems to be performing well"

Read this - http://www.anandtech.com/show/4686/samsung-galaxy-s-2-international-review-the-best-redefined/12

There’s something deceptive about this however, and it’s that although Samsung has chosen to go the usual compressed-dynamic-range route with cellular bars, the WLAN bars seem to be more linearized. Thus where I’m used to seeing every other smartphone show max (until you’re right about to fall off), the SGS2 actually doesn’t lie to me and shows fewer bars. Until I ran around and looked at RSSI in dBm, I suspected SGS2 had WLAN sensitivity issues where there don’t appear to be any. One small thing I did notice is that SGS2 (and BCM4330) seems to only connect at long guard interval (eg 65 Mbps maximum for single stream, 20 MHz channels), where SGS1 and BCM4329 connected at 72 Mbps short guard interval.