u/brianstoner

I have some very good news to share. Last week we shipped a fix to an issue with our GTP proxy that was causing packet loss and bottlenecking download speeds.

We have seen this more than 2-3x the download speed for us internally. I was previously getting around 80mb/sec at home and now regularly get over 300. I had one customer message me and say they saw over 800mb/s down now.

If you ran a speed test before and thought we were slow, I would encourage you to run it again and see if things have improved.

We’re not done. There are several other network upgrades we’re working on that should continue to improve coverage and performance throughout the rest of the year. Will share more about those in the future.

We recently completed a big upgrade to our mobile core that should make WiFi calling more reliable. We have been testing it some internally and seeing positive results. A number of you have volunteered and asked to help us test early features, so we figured why not turn this over to the community now to help test it in more diverse real world scenarios.

This does NOT mean WiFi calling is officially supported by Cape. If you enable it, you may experience loss of service. Only do this if you are willing to tolerate encountering some rough edges and documenting them for us via bug reports in the Cape app.

To enable it:

iOS: Go to Settings > Cellular > Cape SIM (if you have multiple SIM's) > WiFi Calling and toggle it ON

Graphene: Settings > Network & Internet > Cape SIM > Carrier setting overrides. Toggle OFF Enable Overrides, change WiFi Calling to "Forced available" and then Toggle back ON Enable Overrides.

If you are on any other non-Graphene Android device, it will not work yet. We expect it to be available on Samsungs + Pixels by EOY. It's on the same timeline and blocked by the same thing as RCS.

If you encounter any issues with WiFi calls or experience loss of service please file a bug report through the Cape app and let us know exactly what you did and what happened so we can reproduce it internally.

There is one known issue on iOS: You cannot have Identifier Rotation enabled in conjunction with WiFi calling (every time your identifier changes it will toggle WiFi calling back off). This is the same issue we've seen with RCS on iOS. We are working towards a long-term solution for these, but it will likely be EOY or early next year before we have a path forward for everything to work well with Identifier Rotation.

Speed improvements

Help us test WiFi calling (iOS and Graphene)