{
 "id": "camera-on-an-android-hotspot-uploads-4x-slower",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Camera on an Android hotspot uploads 4x slower while the phone's own WiFi is on; with WiFi off (cell data) an OpenMV N6 pushes a 150 KB frame in ~2.4 s over TLS",
 "symptom": "Off-grid camera contact over a phone hotspot: joined in 3.0-3.4 s (RSSI -35), config and telemetry fine, but draining 36 JPEG frames of ~150 KB took 333 s (9.2 s per frame). The same 150 KB POST from a workstation to the same Tailscale Funnel URL takes 50 ms, and the phone's own upload speed test showed 10 Mbit/s. Two of five contact attempts found no hotspot because Android had switched it off while idle.",
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64",
  "ubuntu-24",
  "nvidia",
  "NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell"
 ],
 "intent": "Size upload_cap and the capture resolution for weekly off-grid contacts through a phone.",
 "date": "2026-09-13",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "check"
 ],
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}