I'm having an issue with my the wifi service on this device. I'm going to be as detailed as possible in hopes to try and clarify as much of my story as possible. Thanks in advance.
I just purchased my Samsung device through Samsung.com/ca and received my S20plus device on 4/22/2020. It's on the Bell Canada Network.
I unboxed it, put in my SIM card into the phone and got powered it on and went through the activation process.
I joined my the Wifi network I have here at home and then started to re-download apps. I also noticed that there was an update VIA Software Update in Android.
I noticed that nothing was really updating. I was pretty excited about getting this phone all sorted out and updated that I just turned the wifi off and finished pushing everything through my LTE cellular date ( I have 10gb unlimited so, I didn't care too much if I used up my data to get started)
Later on in the evening when I was ready to start tweaking the phone and actually logging back into my apps. I realized that my phone was "Connected, No Internet access"
I clicked on the Wifi to see the detail settings and it showed at the network speed was only 1Mbps instead of the 866Mbps that it should be like all of my other connected devices.
The things that I've tried to do to resolve this issue are the following:
- Forget Network and then reconnect and try (Didn't work)
- Restart the phone (also powered it down completely - Didn't work)
-Reset Network Settings in Settings -> General -> reset (Didn't work)
-I then tried to clear the partition cache (Didn't work)
-I booted the phone into Safe Mode and the wifi was still the same (Didn't work)
-Even though I have 15 different devices connected to my 2.4 / 5ghz Wifi Networks, I still tried a TON of various settings on my router, adjusting channels, changing the SSID trying to see if the S20Plus would be happy. (Didn't work)
-Lastly, I did a complete factory restore and wiped everything.
This DID NOT WORK! I'm pretty frustrated with this brand new phone. I'm hoping that someone has had a similar situation where they were able to resolve this issue. The last thing I want to do is have to send this back for repair when its literally less than a day old not to mention, I put a fancy DBrand skin on this thing to boot. I'd hate to have to lose this $35 dollar skin.
Did I miss anything? are there any other tricks that I could try?
EDIT: Thought I might add a little more details. I have a Linksys WRT 1900AC Router and a 300Mb business internet (Fiber FTTP)
All of my devices connected to this router are working as they should be. The only problematic device is this S20. I've also taken the device to the office today and the phone is showing the same symptoms while connected to the network at the office.
I think you have done most troubleshooting steps. Just adding some thoughts here:
- Try reboot your router even though you have 15 devices have no problem and connected
- Take your phone to your friends home and connect to their Wifi and see if your phone doing the same thing or not. If not, we continue troubleshoot from there.
So... I figured out what the problem was. Mind you - This makes absolutely no sense to me at all. BUT -
I noticed in my router confing.
I had the the following DNS entries in my router.
-Static DNS1 : 192.168.11.1 (This is my router)
-Static DNS2 : 192.168.111.1 (Work DNS - VPN Tunnel)
-Static DNS3 : 192.168.111.2 (Work Secondary DNS - VPN Tunnel)
I removed Static DNS entries 2 and 3.
and bingo! … The S20 is happy with the wifi. I've been doing various different tests and I also tested the phone again with my iPhone HotSpot and it works!
It's really bizzare that because my S20 connected to my wifi with those DNS entries that it didn't like, it was affecting any every single other wifi network that I connected too.
Anyway - I thought I would share this. I don't know if anyone else would have this particular issue that I had but, sharing is caring!
this was my issue. I posted it above but ill copy and paste the solution to my problem here.
"I had the the following DNS entries in my router.
-Static DNS1 : 192.168.11.1 (This is my router) -Static DNS2 : 192.168.111.1 (Work DNS - VPN Tunnel) -Static DNS3 : 192.168.111.2 (Work Secondary DNS - VPN Tunnel)
I removed Static DNS entries 2 and 3.
and bingo! … The S20 is happy with the wifi. I've been doing various different tests and I also tested the phone again with my iPhone HotSpot and it works! "
i like having my dual bands under one SSID. this way I don't have to flip back and forth depending on how close and far I am from the router.
here is a Screencast to show you the performance of my router with dual band setup.
As you can see. my upload is exceeding my bandwidth cap by a fair margin. and its currently connected at 780Mbps to the router which I'm happy with.
Hi, My new Samsung S20+ wouldn’t find my access point’s (Ubiquity APAC Pro) 5Ghz SSID network, very upsetting when you’re excitedly exploring you brand new phone. We are actually an iPhone family and there are about 30 devices access both 2.4 and 5Ghz SSID without any issue. Although S20+ connects to my 2.4Ghz SSID. After a lot of trials and errors I found out that all channel frequencies of 5Ghz band isn't accessible by S20+; my router’s channel selection was on Auto and that was the problem. When I changed the channel to 153-157(US) it worked and found the 5Ghz SSID. Later I tried with all other channels and it can’t detect the 5G SSID. I think this is a bug in the WiFi adapter of the phone and I would appreciate Samsung to resolve the issue may be though a firmware update ASAP. Cheers!
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