[subego]

Does anyone know what kind of scale the signal level blue bar in Internet Connect works off? Is it logarithmic? Likewise, what about the "4-bar" indicator in the menu bar?

A full 4 bars on the menu bar seems to equal about a 50% Internet Connect blue bar. Is a 50% Internet Connect blue bar a 50 (out of 100) signal level?

Jesus. What a tortured sentence.

[subego]

(one and only) Bump

[ghporter]

This has been discussed here before, and the consensus was that the metric used is complex. In other words, it's a magic number that the software pulls out of the air. It combines both signal strength and quality, but there's no way to tell how the two are weighted.

The best I've been able to come up with is this: more bars is good, less bars is bad.

Sorry.

[subego]

Thanks!

No need to be sorry. I know more now.

[suthercd]

You could search for stumblers which are applications that measure airport/802.11 reception and strength. Some include a graphic that measures recerption over time. I use one named iStumbler.

Craig

[subego]

Originally posted by suthercd:
You could search for stumblers which are applications that measure airport/802.11 reception and strength. Some include a graphic that measures recerption over time. I use one named iStumbler.

Craig

The stumblers have been a bit of a bitch to use, since I have to both disable WEP and then take myself off the network before they function. Not to mention I'm one of those types where the stumbler just dies after a minute or two.

KisMac works fine, but I don't really trust the signal readings it gives me. A 75% blue bar in Internet Connect roughly equates to a signal strength of 20. This just seems wrong.

The whole point of this is I'm trying to put my new HyperLinkTech directional antenna through its paces. I'll post a full review, sooner rather than later.

Shame on Apple too, for removing the "optimize base station placement" function from the AAU. By the time I found out it even existed, it was gone.

[edit: added AAU rant]