Phone hotspot "flickering" connection/disconnection

[prophet01]

Hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this issue.

I often use my Galaxy J7 Pro as a hotspot for my laptops. It feels like since forever that the connection drops in and out quite rapidly, in bursts, connecting and disconnecting the laptops.

When I use my other phone, S5 mini, as a hotspt the connection is stable.

 

Any ideas what might be causing this behaviour and how to fix it please?

[Peterw42]

You could try checking what actual channel either phone is using for the wifi hotspot. J7 may be using a busy channel and s5 a better channel. Then adjust the channel in hotspot settings.

The j7 may be using up bandwidth handling it's own internet traffic, background apps etc.

Or it could just be that one phone has a stronger signal than the other.

[prophet01]

Thanks for the response.

Both phones were indicating Broadcast Channel "Auto" so I changed the J7 to 11 but no different.

 

I then changed it to 1 and the connection became stable.

Looks like a good call, cheers.

[prophet01]

Aargh..spoke too soon. It's reverted.

Ok, at least now I have something to trial and play around with.

[Eindhoven]

Same network on both phones? I had the same behaviour from my 4G router. Constant disconnections with AIS. Changed to DTAC; no disconnections.

 

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[prophet01]

17 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

Same network on both phones? I had the same behaviour from my 4G router. Constant disconnections with AIS. Changed to DTAC; no disconnections.

 

Yep, same network on both phones suggesting it's a phone issue.

 

Anyway, some good has come out of it. On another forum someone suggested the obvious (so obvious it didn't occur to me ????) alternative of usb tethering instead of wifi hotspot.

 

Well, I tried it and was pleasantly surprised to find that not only was it stable but the download speed increased roughly three-fold to 35Mbps.

Result!

 

Would still like to find out why the disconnection issue is happening though.

Edited December 14, 2020 by prophet01
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