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Internet grabber or booster and is working
- Thread starter djn0iz
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I'm not sure what you mean by "internet grabber"
Are you looking to boost internet speed/signal strength via an app? There are a number of apps which claim to do this, but I've never seen any one have any real success and I think a lot of them are bogus.
Are you on cell data or WiFi?
Are you looking to boost internet speed/signal strength via an app? There are a number of apps which claim to do this, but I've never seen any one have any real success and I think a lot of them are bogus.
Are you on cell data or WiFi?
chanchan05
The Doctor
I never understood how anyone would believe this. Nothing you do on your device (other than replace hardware) can boost your internet speed. It is related to the speed being pushed out to your account. That's like asking your shower to pump out firehose level pressure when the water company only gives you enough for a trickle. Getting a bigger showerhead won't help.
hiredgun
Android Expert
I use several of these app because I have a cheapo Chinese devise that a lot of times will say that it's still connected to my WiFi at home, but it will stop sending and receiving data for some reason. The one that works best for me is this one.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atejapps.tapwifirepairlite&hl=en
HOWEVER, as Chan and El Presidente pointed out, this really doesn't "fix" or "boost" my signal at all. Evidently it just disconnects my WiFi on the devise and then reconnects, something you could do on your own if you just want to go to settings. I does work for my particular problem though, and it's a bit faster than going to settings and doing it myself!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atejapps.tapwifirepairlite&hl=en
HOWEVER, as Chan and El Presidente pointed out, this really doesn't "fix" or "boost" my signal at all. Evidently it just disconnects my WiFi on the devise and then reconnects, something you could do on your own if you just want to go to settings. I does work for my particular problem though, and it's a bit faster than going to settings and doing it myself!
djn0iz
Lurker
Im on a wifi... i mean its like steal the wifi speed so it will boost on its normal bandwigth... grabbing connection off the wifi to put up on my device...
Anyways thanks for the info...
Sorry, but I still don't understand what you want: "steal the WiFi speed" doesn't mean anything to me.
If you mean use WiFi and mobile data together (which is the best guess I can come up with) the device can't do that, and I don't know how that could work even in principle. If you tell a website that you want to download a page it sends the packets to your address via whatever route seems least congested at the moment. WiFi and mobile would appear to it as 2 different IP addresses, so 2 different devices, and there's no way it could know it's supposed to share the load between the two, never mind how to optimally share it.
If you mean use WiFi and mobile data together (which is the best guess I can come up with) the device can't do that, and I don't know how that could work even in principle. If you tell a website that you want to download a page it sends the packets to your address via whatever route seems least congested at the moment. WiFi and mobile would appear to it as 2 different IP addresses, so 2 different devices, and there's no way it could know it's supposed to share the load between the two, never mind how to optimally share it.
chanchan05
The Doctor
I think he means "steal WiFi speed" by having himself become faster while everyone else becomes slower. He did say boost on normal bandwidth, which I would assume similar to boosting and limiting download bandwidths on downloading items/programs.
AFAIK you can't do that on a receiving device like your phone. Stuff like that needs to be done on server side/source. Nothing you can do on your device can tell the internet source to allocate you more bandwidth, especially if it's just a WiFi router. You can possibly do this if you are the WiFi router admin, where you can tweak the WiFi router settings itself. But an app where you aren't the router admin? Not possible AFAIK.
AFAIK you can't do that on a receiving device like your phone. Stuff like that needs to be done on server side/source. Nothing you can do on your device can tell the internet source to allocate you more bandwidth, especially if it's just a WiFi router. You can possibly do this if you are the WiFi router admin, where you can tweak the WiFi router settings itself. But an app where you aren't the router admin? Not possible AFAIK.
If that were possible it would rapidly become a zero sum game too...