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Antennagate lives....

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sgrrsh26

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Sorry to do this to you guys, and apple, but it lives.

It is affecting wifi. not sure about 3g I will have to test it when im not in a deadzone...

Holding the phone in portrait mode wifi is fine, full bars.

but when you hold the phone in landscape, and im not sure exactly where on the antenna but if I put my fingers along the sides and top (sim card side), you can drop down to even 1 bar of wifi....
:apple:
 
I'm getting killer reception for everything on my 4S cellular, wifi, 3g. I have a spot on my commute where I have been cutoff (knick named cutoff hill) with every cell phone I have ever owned, except the iPhone 4S. Now battery life.....not so good.
 
JustCrusin said:
I'm getting killer reception for everything on my 4S cellular, wifi, 3g. I have a spot on my commute where I have been cutoff (knick named cutoff hill) with every cell phone I have ever owned, except the iPhone 4S. Now battery life.....not so good.
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did you read?
 
sgrrsh26 said:
Sorry to do this to you guys, and apple, but it lives.

It is affecting wifi. not sure about 3g I will have to test it when im not in a deadzone...

Holding the phone in portrait mode wifi is fine, full bars.

but when you hold the phone in landscape, and im not sure exactly where on the antenna but if I put my fingers along the sides and top (sim card side), you can drop down to even 1 bar of wifi....
:apple:
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Most I lost was one bar....

Sam
 
sgrrsh26 said:
did you read?
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Yes..Me: Originally Posted by JustCrusin
I'm getting killer reception for everything on my 4S cellular, wifi, 3g. I have a spot on my commute where I have been cutoff (knick named cutoff hill) with every cell phone I have ever owned, except the iPhone 4S. Now battery life.....not so good.

Shall I also say in landscape mode.
 
He's actually right,
In landscape mode I lost one bar of wifi.

Might have to run some tests, but not sure if it's antenna orientation, or it's antennagate

If you hold your finger at all 4 bands (2 left, 2 right) you will quickly drop one bar, but not sure how much it affects speed.
 
djpuma said:
He's actually right,
In landscape mode I lost one bar of wifi.

Might have to run some tests, but not sure if it's antenna orientation, or it's antennagate

If you hold your finger at all 4 bands (2 left, 2 right) you will quickly drop one bar, but not sure how much it affects speed.
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Well lets put it this way, the youtube video I was watching froze up lol.
 
Here are results with speedtest.net

landscape holding fingers on all 4 bands, pretty much shorting everything

ping = 66ms
download = 1.12mbps
upload = 2.63


portrait mode

ping = 43
download = 3.49
upload 3.97

my work only has 4 bonded T1's so our max is about 4 or 5MBPs

Speed dropped significantly.

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ehhh

after several tests the results are all over the place.
landscape mode touching nothing gave me 2.39 mbp, but portrait gave me 3.6mbps (both down)

will have to test wifi at home when no one else is uploading/downloading stuff.
 
djpuma said:
Here are results with speedtest.net

landscape holding fingers on all 4 bands, pretty much shorting everything

ping = 66ms
download = 1.12mbps
upload = 2.63


portrait mode

ping = 43
download = 3.49
upload 3.97

my work only has 4 bonded T1's so our max is about 4 or 5MBPs

Speed dropped significantly.

----------

ehhh

after several tests the results are all over the place.
landscape mode touching nothing gave me 2.39 mbp, but portrait gave me 3.6mbps (both down)

will have to test wifi at home when no one else is uploading/downloading stuff.
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Allow me I have verizon fios

0.01 MBPS shorting all 4

20mbps in portrait....
 
Very strange. What's your router?

I tried several times, portrait, landscape, covering all four bands, not covering any, covering all breaks with my fingers wet... Nothing other than the usual mid-evening variability on a cable Internet provider. Everything in the 14-18Mbps down/ 3-4Mbps up range (acomcast rated speed 15down/3up)

Heck I even tried the true death grip with my palms/fingers touching ever part of the bands. 17.88 down and 2.73 up.

Since I guarantee I don't have some magic phone, what do you suppose is going on here? Phone is AT&T, router is WNDR3700, using the Speedtest app
 
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I can replicate the lost bar on wifi but surprisingly I got faster speedtest results in landscape running 3 tests in each.
 
I know people hate comments like these, but....


I'm having no signal drop whatsoever when I switch from portrait to landscape or hold my phone in any strange way. This is nothing like antennagate.
 
milkmankilla said:
What do you mean? I'm just a random person. I get sick of people that try to start problems and get people talking about something that isn't there
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Its there for me so what are you going on about?
Nice name by the way :rolleyes:
 
Listen mabye I have a defective phone then. Dont bash on me for starting something because if I bridge any of the gaps on the antenna I lose a bar of wifi. If I bridge all 4 I lose 2 bars.
 
Maybe it depends on the channel your router is on? Mine does seem to drop 1 bar (though the signal strength does fluctuate on its own too, so it may be coincidence), but it doesn't effect it strongly enough to hurt my speeds. In any case, it's not nearly as big of a deal as antennagate IMO since it's rare to connect to wifi at the absolute edge of coverage.
 
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