A few weeks ago, I noticed a huge drop in internet speed on my Samsung Galaxy M33 running Android 13: Web pages took forever to load, videos on YouTube buffered constantly, and downloads crawled at a snail’s pace. My Wi-Fi signal showed full bars, and mobile data appeared fine, but actual speed was slow and …

A few weeks ago, I noticed something incredibly frustrating on my Samsung Galaxy S22 FE running Android 13: Pages took forever to load, videos buffered endlessly, and downloads slowed to a crawl. My phone showed 4G/LTE signal full, but performance was terrible. Switching Wi-Fi worked fine, which meant the problem was strictly with mobile data. …

A few weeks ago, I ran into a very frustrating problem on my Google Pixel 7a running Android 14: My phone would show Wi-Fi connected, but no internet would work. I could open the Wi-Fi settings and see the network, but trying to browse or use apps gave “No Internet” errors. I even tried switching …