are downloads to a tablet supposed to be this slow

[frozentundra123456]

I have an Acer tablet, Iconia A-100 i believe. It has a dual core A-9 with 1 gb of ram.

Downloads are unbearably slow. I mean really, really excruciating. I have been sitting here for 30 minutes trying to download a nook reading app of 8.1 mB. (mega-bites !!!)

I have a wireless network and reasonably fast DSL internet. Are tablets really this slow to download, or is it just the one that I have? Fortunately I got a deal and only paid 200.00 for this thing, but the slow downloads are almost a deal breaker for me.

 

[ChronoReverse]

Maybe something is broken? The touchpad has known bad wifi drivers but still downloads way faster than that.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Maybe something is broken? The touchpad has known bad wifi drivers but still downloads way faster than that.

Actually it may be some kind of software glitch. Every time I try to install an app, the moving bar under the little android thing just keeps moving forever, but I think the download has in fact finished a long time ago. Maybe I am just not that familiar with Android, but the whole OS seems kind of buggy.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Strange. No problems on an ASUS Eee pad transformer (TF101). I'm downloading apps and files at ~1MB/s.

 

[Jodell88]

I have an Acer Iconia Tab A500 and I never had that issue