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Slower speeds when using personal hotspot

Ipadlover29

Ipadlover29

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May 28, 2011
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I've noticed when I use the personal hotspot feature on my iPhone 6 plus with my iPad air 2 or macbook the speeds seem to be about two thirds slower vs when I just use my 6 plus on LTE on its own. Is this normal? Just wondering if anyone else noticed this. This is my first iPhone when I had my Samsung s4 I would get full speeds when using the hotspot feature. Is this another iOS 8 bug or just how iPhones work when using hotspot?


Example:

Speed test on my iPad air 2 when tethered to my 6 plus

20mbps down/20 mbps up


Speed test on my iPhone 6 plus

65 mbps/35 mbps up
 
I think that's probably pretty normal.

Similar situation with my home wifi, have 50mbps down when connected directly to the modem's wifi connection, when connected to our wifi extender I only get about 15 mbps down.

(similar as in the hotspot is similar to a wifi extender, it channels through another internet connection)
 
After trying to tether using the usb to lightning cable with my MacBook, I found that I was getting full speeds. So it's only wireless tethering that slows down the speed.
 
Ipadlover29 said:
After trying to tether using the usb to lightning cable with my MacBook, I found that I was getting full speeds. So it's only wireless tethering that slows down the speed.
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Yes the WiFi tethering is slow. I use a QNAP QGenie tethered via USB in hotspot mode and it's far faster and more reliable than the iPhones WiFi tether.
 
I have noticed this too. As soon as I tether my cellular data switches from 4G to 3G on my phone. I can't remember what happened when I terhered from android phones.
 
I'm just amazed that I can be on a speeding railway into the city and communicate with my clients, uploading and downloading graphics and proposals. Who the hell cares that there's a difference in speed? Unless maybe the phone owner's intention is to play an intense game while traveling and is looking to get the most bandwidth that they can.
 
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