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[Nexus 7 General] mi7chy:
Linksys is crappy especially their firmware causing interoperability issues. Try looking for an alternative firmware. I use OpenWRT and Tomato releases on my Linksys and it works fine with Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 General] OliverHaslam:
It is on my list to try, but with so many other devices working fine, I'm not convinced.
[Nexus 7 General] just lou:
No issues at all with my Actiontec MI424WR running in g/n mode, WPA2 enabled.
[Nexus 7 General] slickie88:
I'm not having any connection problems with my e4200, but it's running Tomato firmware rather than stock.
[Nexus 7 General] SonicTab:
That's interesting as I'm running Tomato on the e4200 too, and had the issues.

Note just browsing seemed fine, it was only large transfers, slingbox or video streaming where it hung.

All my other devices work fine, strange.
[Nexus 7 General] r4d14n7:
Tomato FTW! Have a $30 Asus router with tomato and has outperformed all of my previous routers, even under heavy torrent loads.
[Nexus 7 General] r4d14n7:
Are you two using different security settings maybe? Try comparing?
[Nexus 7 General] svmpatel:
Hi, I get the exact same problems as the op on my Nexus 7 with wifi issues. None of my other devices have any wireless issues. I am also using a Linksys e4200 with Tomato firmware. I will post later on the exact mod and version of tomato that I am using. Just wanted the op to know that they are not alone, there are others like him out here....
[Nexus 7 General] OliverHaslam:
I'm not using the same router as you guys, and I have a connectivity issue...
[Nexus 7 General] ojconcentrate:
I think I may have the issue here. Sometimes my WIFI becomes unresponsive. It still shows as connected but it seems it doesn't transfer anything. sometimes some applications even says 'no connection, click to try again'... after a few seconds it comes back.

I'm using a DGND3300 netgear... none of my other android device have an issue nor do my laptops...
[Nexus 7 General] OliverHaslam:
Yep, that's what I get. If you look at the WiFi logo in the status bar, you'll see it turn grey and then reconnect.
[Nexus 7 General] ojconcentrate:
mine rarely turns grey... most of the time it stays blue but no movement. when in notice its happening, i can switch to another app, say play store and it will just sit there doing nothing, it will take a minute or so before start transmitting again.

is there a way to report this to google? wifi issues are very common nowadays and seems like it can be easily patched by them.
[Nexus 7 General] TheHEFTA:
Only times I get grey WiFi is when I'm linked to either mine or my missus' phones when were out and about. Zero problems with connecting to peoples WiFi, used the awful Sagecom router that Sky provides, BT HomeHub3 and a few Belkin ones.

Maybe its an issue with your router rather than the tablet?
[Nexus 7 General] jabsys:
I haven't noticed any disconnects but the signal often isn't as strong as my macbook even when they're next to each other..
[Nexus 7 General] CharliesTheMan:
That's just because of the hardware and firmware being different. It's the norm with these tablets, however WiFi reception is still very good for me.

OP, I'm running a linksys e4200 myself and I haven't had trouble with it and I push it pretty hard downloading large roms and stuff. I help run an android hosting site so I spend a lot of time testing by downloading 560 mb roms over WiFi while I'm tweaking and recording data on performance increases and decreases.

My router has some settings adjusted but it's mostly just how it came out of the box.

I don't use 5 GHz spectrum because Android likes 2.4 much better.

I would use the WiFi analyzer app and check and see if you're on a good channel and next I would factory reset your router if possible.
[Nexus 7 General] movieaddict:
Do exactly as he said use Wi-Fi analyzer and change to the strongest channel router
[Nexus 7 General] EvilDeadFan:
Wifi runs perfectly on my Asus rt-n66u router
[Nexus 7 General] Revelant:
Can anyone with a perfect connection (ie. 100℅ connectivity) post what their link speed is? I appear to be capping-out at 65Mbps, and have been told That this is the max for the N7 due to it only having one antenna. Any confirmations would be appreciated.
[Nexus 7 General] Clancy3434:
My wireless N isn't showing as available... NetGear router. Only issue I've experienced with the 7 thus far.
[Nexus 7 General] cse2k:
Does someone finds their nexus 7 wifi speed became really slow when downloading stuff on the tablet? whenever i download an app, everything seems to me they just disconnected, other than the app is still downloading.
[Nexus 7 General] chisaki:
I'm using a Linksys e3000 and my connections is solid with the Nexus 7. Speed tests are over 30000 kbps. I've never had a problem connecting any device to this router.
[Nexus 7 General] dch921:
I'm running a Linksys E4200 at home with stock firmware on the router with no issues on my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] ojconcentrate:
Turns out that it maybe be an incompatibility between the nexus and some routers. My router is dual band. I switched to single game mode and it works fine. Disabling security on the routed also helps. I still think the issue is with the nexus since all my other devices worked perfectly except this one but now at least I have a reliable connection.
[Nexus 7 General] parrot5:
Subscribed. Same random disconnects and dropouts here. Linksys WRT400N stock firmware on channel 6 (least congested here)
[Nexus 7 General] lawnchair:
This does appear to be a "specific router" issue, not per-Nexus. My N7 gets perfect 65Mb connections at my workplace (with a solid cloud of Cisco lightweight 802.11n access points). But at home, with two very-pedestrian WRT54GLs running DD-WRT on opposite ends of the house, I frequently am connecting at 1Mb or 2Mb DSSS fallback rates, and that's within 20 feet of the router. Nothing else in my house drops down like that. I haven't bothered to go 802.11n at home since my incoming internet isn't terribly fast.

FWIW, it doesn't seem to be an antenna issue, either. Running a wardriving app on the Nexus, I can see my home network from 300+ feet from my house. Just can't connect at more than 1 or 2 Mb.
[Nexus 7 General] OliverHaslam:
But I don't have a Linksys router....

I suspect it is a setting on the routers that may be the default on certain Linksys routers and just happens to be set on my TP-Link device, too. Still not quite an N7 issue, but not a Linksys one, either.
[Nexus 7 General] ojconcentrate:
Considering all other devices seem to work with all routers and the nexus 7 seems to be the only one to have issues with some routers configurations I think it's a safe bet that the issue is with the n7.
[Nexus 7 General] LeeDJohnson:
I do not have any trouble connecting to any of the WiFi routers I have connected too. My home AT&T UVerse, any of my Linksys, the enterprise router at work, and another unknown at a local community college.

The only WiFi issue I have is it will drop on a very weak signal. I can usually just take a step over and it reconnects.
[Nexus 7 General] teruyume:
I am also having problem with Nexus 7's wifi. It is having problem connecting to my DIR-625 router while my other phones connecting no problem, Nexus S, Galaxy S II T989, Galaxy S III T999, Defy. Initially though might because DIR-625 is a Draft N router, but still won't connect with G only.

Has anyone figure out some driver related patches or something ?
[Nexus 7 General] blind1eye:
N7 wifi

I've looked around, played with settings(channels, security, etc) i have a telus smart hub at home, which runs fine on other tabs, laptops but is

super slow on my N7.

i also use hotspot on my Gnex with Rogers which works great. doesnt drop or lag at all

any help well be greatly appreciated....
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
After zero wifi problems for 3-4 hours yesterday afternoon, yesterday evening I was having wifi problems. I was at my desk 10 feet from the AP and the signal was only showing 1-2 bars and it kept turning wifi off. I'd turn it back on, it'd connect, a few minutes later wifi was back off. Rebooted and it's been fine since.

Odd thing is, I have this happen on my Galaxy Note as well. But cannot reproduce it on my cheap Linksys router here at work, so I keep wondering if my router at home is screwy.

WRT54GL running DD-WRT, but very very old version.. I wonder if I have a setting that's not interacting well with newer devices. Keep saying I'm going to get an N router anyway....
[Nexus 7 General] JaSauders:
I've found Linksys to be slipping quite a bit in the router department lately. I switched to a Netgear, a router brand I wasn't exactly fond of, and have been exceptionally impressed with the device (3700v3). The v3 is not compatible with DD-WRT or Tomato, however, the stock Netgear firmware was over 2x as fast as DD-WRT on the 3700v2, which diminishes any desire for me to run alternative firmware since Netgear seems to have hit a decent home run here.

That being said, I'd at least consider switching channels or something... or even switch the firmware as some others have suggested. I know it's not a 2 second fix, but I can't help but to think there might be a connection here. I used to be a huge Linksys fan, but more and more I'm seeing other companies surpass them in the quality department.
[Nexus 7 General] hurrakan:
Just got my Nexus-7. Charged it, turned it on, chose language, game over - I can't get past the "Select Network" screen because the wifi doesn't work :(

I can see the wifi network I want and it has full strength - but when I try to connect it just says "Authenticating" forever.... sometimes it says "Connected" for a second (with no bars) but then goes back to "Authenticating" again.

I can connect to this wifi network perfectly fine with my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2 with ICS).

I'm at the office now, hopefully it will work at home.

Very disappointing.

EDIT:

OK forget everything I just said. The office network admin told me the wrong wifi password... it all works fine! :D
[Nexus 7 General] -Oz-:
The nexus caused some wifi abnormalities for me. I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 running Buffalo's DD-WRT and the nexus connects fine but when it goes to sleep it causes a "disturbance" that temporarily makes it so no other wireless device can access the inter to intranet. Once i wake the nexus up all is well. With that said, I switched to an old netgear router with all the same devices and everything works great so the Buffalo is going back under warranty and I'm going to install a new Asus router. I'll post back if it works/doesn't.
[Nexus 7 General] -Oz-:
Well, the ASUS RT-N56U is working great with all my stuff including the nexus. The Buffalo is on its way back under warranty so when it returns it'll be interesting to see if the nexus still "breaks" it.
[Nexus 7 General] galaxyjeff:
I can't watch YouTube videos in HD on mine all the time. Sometimes they play great other times I think the tablet can't handle the bandwidth. I think Google should work on this. I'm using an at&t Motorola nvg510.
[Nexus 7 General] stoked:
I have the exact same problem with my WZR-HP-G300NH (v1) running the Buffalo DD-WRT. When the N7 goes to sleep all wireless devices drop connectivity intermittently. Turning off Wifi on the N7 and all my other devices have rock solid connectivity. Might be a Atheros chipset issue, ran into all sorts of issues with this device working as a repeater.

Dang, I just tried bt tethering to my iPhone, but it drops the iPhone wifi connection and uses 3G. Was hoping I wouldn't need to buy a new router...
[Nexus 7 General] krelvinaz:
Funny, not familiar with the device you listed, I did a Google search and the first article I found was: "Motorola's NVG510 DSL modem... not very good"

Looking at reviews (Amazon, Forbes, DSL Reports etc... ) of the device, it would appear a lot of people have problems with it.

I suspect your issue might be your router...
[Nexus 7 General] Zenoran:
It looks like the N7 doesn't support 4ghz N :(

My only real true gripe about the hardware.
[Nexus 7 General] khaytsus:
No device supports 4GHz wifi. But no, the N7 does not have 5Ghz.
[Nexus 7 General] galaxyjeff:
It's not at all the router which is very nice and puts out a stronger WiFi signal than my linksys. I don't know who the people are that give reviews but reviews can't always be relied on. Some people aren't honest or don't have much knowledge about things and leave bad reviews. I know what is the problem. At&t's DSL in my place is getting bogged down from neighbors who might be downloading and uploading at night when I'm trying to watch YouTube. I'm going to call at&t to find out why their service is interfering with mine. I didn't have this problem until they moved in.
[Nexus 7 General] AshleyTayles:
I have a Netgear DG34g and I'm constantly having to disable and enable WiFi to get it working again :\
[Nexus 7 General] ssahnan:
I have a asus ac66u and find on sleep mode my tablet will disconnect. Upon turning on, the wifi is grayed out and won't reconnect on its own. I have to manually turn wifi off and on. My setting is for always on.
[Nexus 7 General] Zenoran:
Typo 5ghz ya. Sucks I need to get a dual band router because nexus is only 2.4 ghz device I have but it cripples my others. I forgot how slow 2.4 was. Sucky they wouldn't put a good WiFi radio on a WiFi only device!
[Nexus 7 General] HolyShift:
Worth a shot

(Cliff notes version: Make sure you're running AES and not TKIP)

Just got my Nexus 7 today. I went into my local OfficeMax the second they opened and they had ONE 16GB in stock. Check please!

Anyway, when I got home I couldn't get my gmail account to synch up during the out of the box setup. It did connect to my router fine but said that it was unable to establish a connection with the Google server after entering e-mail/password.

Not sure what made me decide to check or even try switching but I noticed I was authenticating using TKIP and not AES. Switched my router over to AES and it worked like a charm. I hope this info helps at least one person.
[Nexus 7 General] GaresTaylan:
I have a Netgear WNDR3400 and I have the same issue. When it does connect, it can take ages for a web page to load. I reset the router to default settings today and reconfigured everything. The wireless works fine on all our laptops, my iPad and my wife's Galaxy Tab 7.7.

In addition to web pages taking forever to load, I keep getting constant errors in the play store where the connection failed. Youtube videos have to buffer every 10 seconds or so.

Not sure what else to do. When I look at the wireless signal on the tablet, I have full bars. Sometimes if I reboot the tablet it will be fine for a bit, but after awhile its back to being brutally slow again. Since I have full bars I dont think an extender is going to help.

Sucks because the router is only about a year and a half old and I dont want to fork out more money for a new router just because this one device has wifi issues.

As a test, I also set up a guest network on my router and didnt broadcast the SSID, but set it to open to see if it was a security issue. The problem still exists, brutally slow or non-existent.

EDIT

So its definitely a router issue. We only have one machine in the house connected directly to the router over ethernet, our iMac. I set up internet sharing on the iMac and connected the tablet to the iMac over WiFi. All issues are resolved. Chrome, Youtube, the playstore, etc - all load fast now.

So I guess in the meantime, this should work. Unfortunately that means ill have to leave our iMac on at all times.
[Nexus 7 General] OnTheSnap:
Add me to the list of Nexus 7 Wifi problems. I have a Linksys e3000 dual band its not working well at all. Hangs on page loads all the time. I also have a DLINK in another room and its pretty much flawless with that.

So there is some compatibility issue going on. Fail.
[Nexus 7 General] OnTheSnap:
I decided to see if I could fix it myself. And I did! :D

I pulled the back cover off. It was very easy and I was able to use my short finger nails to pop the back off. the back cover has 3 integrated antenna's that connect with the main body using spring contacts. Each antenna is labled - "GPS", "NFC", "Wifi". I bent the Wifi spring fingers up 10 degrees or so. This allowed them to make better contact with the antenna on the back cover.

Problem solved. No more connectivity issues at all.

Note that prior to this fix, I had good signal strength. It was just taking forever to load pages. Like packets were getting malformed or something.

So if you have wifi problems, give this a shot. Its low risk IMO.
[Nexus 7 General] kojaraty:
I had problems while using Wifi.

Then i changed the ip address to a static ip, now i dont have any issues so far.
[Nexus 7 General] brando56894:
All is well with my Linksys WRT160N
[Nexus 7 General] tom_yellowblue:
I'm having the exact same problem. I'm using a Netgear WNDR3700 with OpenWRT.
[Nexus 7 General] kardain:
Linksys wrt310n, no problems at all...

Wpa2, dhcp, channel 3.
[Nexus 7 General] bahathir:
TP-Link TD-W8960N

WPA2 AES PSK

11n mode pnly

Channel 6

Works great
[Nexus 7 General] orangetyphoon:
Having troubles with Netgear WNDR3800.

All wifi devices (2 laptops, 2 iPhones) drop out except for the Nexus 7. When I turn off wifi on the tablet, all other devices get back to the network again!

I hope someone figures out what is going on.
[Nexus 7 General] Beggars1923:
After initial set-up wifi would go in and out on N7 - 4 blue bars to gray. I unplugged the cable modem and my netgear router and the problem went away. When I went to use the XBOX I had the same issue as I was in and out of XBOX Live. Unplugged cable and modem again for a minute and works fine on restart. Never had this problem before the N7.
[Nexus 7 General] r0zj0k3r:
Yeah Maybe I man handled it a bit but it is worth noting that these metal contacts are very very week. They felt stiff so I applied MODERATE pressure and pushed them almost straight up. At this point I realized bending them back down would break them off at the joint. I had no choice. They promply fell right off. I had to canabalize similar metal contacts off an old phone and solder them on. Given that these contacts are only 1/16" wide and maybe 1/8" tall, it wasn't fun to solder at home(much love to the wife for helping me). I also noticed good contact on the case, seen as dimpling on case contacts, so I really should have left it alone:o. But live and learn....just putting out there, be extremely careful when handling the contacts!

My wireless is better than ever though!
[Nexus 7 General] JuyLe:
I had Wifi problem with a Siemens router. The Wifi icon turned grey sometimes. Then I used static IP and it works better.
[Nexus 7 General] sv87411:
#vc

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[Nexus 7 General] zzvelik:
Has anyone been able to tether their an HTC Touch Pro2 with the new Google Nexus 7 tablet? The Nexus won't recognize the SSID broadcast from on my TP2 WifiRouter. I called Google support and they told me that the phone has to broadcast a 2.4GHz signal. I'm not sure what type of signal is being broadcast on the TP2. I'm wondering if there is a solution for this as the Asus Transformer and my laptop have no problems finding my TP2's SSID. Thanks in advance
[Nexus 7 General] sirdashadow:
Channel Slot?

Try moving the Channel around. I notice Ch 11 is very flakey but 1 or 6 are stronger and better, regardless of "interference" with other routers in the same channel...noone here tells us what Channel they use!
[Nexus 7 General] whitedragonz83:
Recently moved my parents router to channel 6 from channel 1 and it seemed to fix a lot of their Wi-Fi issues with their nexus 7, but it was also discovered that there was significant overlapping signals on channel 1-4 or 7+ in her area.
[Nexus 7 General] ZanshinG1:
The most probable reason is that the tethering app is using wifi ad hoc mode, which isn't supported by Android.
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
What channel works best is completely dependant on the environment around the wireless router - there is no way to say that a given channel will work better for others, so it's kind of pointless to mention what channel we are using...
[Nexus 7 General] zaadstra:
Same problem and setup here, Netgear WNDR3700 with OpenWRT. Yesterday the Nexus entered the house and the problems started. ALL phones, laptops and wifi-connected pc's loose Internet connection. OpenWRT has been running without problems since installation, 257 days uptime now.

I looked into a pc and the Wifi signal was 100%, there was a connection and the (DHCP) IP was set correctly, as were the DNS servers and gateway. But a ping to the router IP gave no answer, 100% packet loss. Kicking the network service on OpenWRT (by changing the Wifi power dBm) brought up the network again. In one day, I've been doing that several times now.....

So I think it is the Nexus, as stated above, probably confusing the router when it is falling asleep. For now I'll switch off the wifi on the Nexus, but that is silly. :(
[Nexus 7 General] tom_yellowblue:
zaadstra: Try updating to the latest OpenWRT. I did that 3 days ago and since then I haven't had any problems. (yet...)
[Nexus 7 General] krenaud:
WNDR3800 + Nexus 7 hangs

I've got a WNDR3800 with latest FW and when my Nexus 7 entered the house the WNDR started to hang several times per day. Since I put an old WRT54G into use exclusively for the Nexus the WNDR hasn't hung a single time.

Today I tried to connect the Nexus to the WNDR again and the WNDR hung within an hour.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but all crashes have occurred when the Nexus 7 has been in stand-by.

It seems Netgear has a problem with 3700 and 3800. Has anyone reported this to Netgear?
[Nexus 7 General] zippyijk:
For frequent disconnect problem...

Possible solution..for me anyway!

This was only happening on one of my routers an e4200.

The fix was to disable QoS, specifically WMM in the Gaming and Applications settings.

Apparently WMM is required for a router to be N standard and some have enabled by default.

Switching it off has fixed the problem for me, no more disconnecting all the time :) HTH
[Nexus 7 General] stormyt:
Hi.

I've just recently purchased a N7 and noticed the wifi speeds are bad..trying to get the updates is painfully slow. I'm using a Boblite modem from IInet (an australian ISP) all other devices are fine just the N7. Looking at what you guy's have been trying I'm still having problems

Current Mode of Modem for wireless

WPA/WPA2-PSK (Wi-Fi Protected Access Pre-Shared Key)

Wireless N+G+B

Chan 1

20/40 mhz

Any help to improve speed would be great.

Thanks.

I have solved my issue..i reconnected my Billion 7800NL...fixed the problem straight away. Bye bye Boblite did lose a little sync but nothing that will effect me majorly.
[Nexus 7 General] realphoenikx:
never mind :(
[Nexus 7 General] cartertucker:
I am on 4.2 and cannot stay connected to my work WLAN running WPA-EAP (PEAP). Is there no easy client-side fix for this short of rooting and rolling back to 4.1.2? I am not sure my admin is too keen on changing the router security.
[Nexus 7 General] realphoenikx:
I'm happy to say I finally found the solution for my wifi problem. First I bended the contacts in the back of the Nexus, but that did not help. Then I tried to disable WMM in QOS, did not help. The final solution was to enable DHCP in the wifi properties and you know what? My Nexus came alive!!!:laugh: No more disconnecting, no more lag!