That's with the 2.4 Ghz band (Linksys E3000). The 5 Ghz band works fine, except my phone won't stay on the 5 Ghz channel and keeps switching to the 2.4 one. The range of the 5 one is about 75% of what it was under iOS 7.1.2. To get reliability with 2.4 I need to be within about 10 feet of my router.
My Internet connection is 100 Mbps by 10 Mpbs, but my point of that post was the 61% packet loss. For me the problem is dropped packets. iOS 8 does not handle interference well at all. I used to have no problems with 2.4 despite a number of neighboring networks, now there's no 2.4 channel that works reliably on my 5s running iOS 8. iPad 2 and iPhone 4s work fine running iOS 7.1.2.
Wifi hotspot doesn't appear to be that accurate. When I tested with my iPhone 5s, it would fluctuate between 30 Mbps and 1 Mpbs with the phone lying on a flat surface.
wifi hotspot, u mean wifi sweetspots the app i mentioned? it is accurate, it test throughput between the device & the router, which on 2.4ghz is a max phy(theoretical) rate of 72mbps, 5ghz its 150mbps if ht40 is used. i got a stable 57-61mbps on my iphone 5 2.4ghz on both ios 7.1.2 & 8.0, iphone 6 is a stable 64-68mbps on 2.4ghz both ios 8.0 & 8.0.2. with your packet loss fluctuations like that would be expected. i had an e3000 but its now dead, the stock firmware was crap, try dd-wrt or tomato victek/shibby/toastman. im not a fan of broadcom routers they been problematic & had horribly jittery wifi radios, couldnt take high throughput sustained, more than 2 clients caused it to panic etc. atheros(now qualcomm atheros) has been excellent for me, strong, stable, long range high tx power radios, higher throughput. quantenna radios are also supposed to be good. i use a tl-wdr4900 v1 with dd-wrt & its great with super range, the host router upstairs is my dir-825 b1 also on dd-wrt, also doing fine with all 4 ipads, 4 iphones, & 1 android, stable good throughput on all. they are mixed with ios 7.1.2 & ios 8.
not telling you to go spend hundreds on a new router that may or may not solve the issue but im just saying (but do look into those 2 firmwares, they offer a lot more features & performance than stock, & are free)
if youre on the stock linksys firmware id try the following settings in
bold for both bands:
Frame Burst:
Disabled (Default: Enabled)
Authentication Type:
Auto (Default: Auto)
Basic Rate:
All (Default: Default)
Transmission Rate:
Auto (Default: Auto)
N Transmission Rate:
Auto (Default: Auto)
Transmission Power:
High (Default: High)
CTS Protection Mode:
Auto (Default: Auto) <--- can also try disabled
Beacon Interval:
100 (Default: 100, Milliseconds, Range: 20 - 65535)
DTIM Interval:
1 (Default: 1, Range: 1 - 255)
Fragmentation Threshold:
2346 (Default: 0000, Range: 256 - 2346)
RTS Threshold:
2347 (Default: 0000, Range: 0 - 2347)
under QoS
WMM Support:
Enabled Disabled (Default: Enabled)
No Acknowledgement:
Disabled (Default: Disabled) <--- can try enabled too
ensure you use at least wpa/wpa2 mixed with AES ONLY, no TKIP or AES+TKIP. you also mentioned 5.4 band, if possible(if they are listed as it varies with router region it was bought in) use the upper 5ghz band, channels 149-165, they offer more transmit power & throughput from both the router end, & clients(ur iphone) end & have ht40(40mhz channel or 20/40 dynamic etc as stock fw call it) enabled
