Re: Power on bar
- From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com>
- To: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org, Josu Lazkano <josu lazkano gmail com>
- Subject: Re: Power on bar
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:33:49 +0300
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:48 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 23:15 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote:
> > Hello everybody, I am new in this mail list.
> >
> > I want to know if is posible to add the power level (on numbers) on
> > the bar for each wifi.
>
> You mean an actual % number in addition to the bars? It's possible of
> course, but I also tend to think it's pretty misleading. Signal
> strength is pretty ambiguous and you can't really read anything from the
> difference between 50% to 55%. Given that, I also tend to think that
> people wanting more specific signal strength probably want to use a
> different tool that gives them direct dBm or RSSI in addition to NM. We
> could display that sort of thing in the Information dialog though.
>
> Dan
It would be very useful.
Here at university, sometimes AP are weak, but following rule always
works:
-79dBm - -82dBm - works fine
-83dBm - -85dBm - works at low speeds
-86dBm - -89dBm - hardly works at all
-90dBm - ... - doesn't work
NM shows all these as two bars (sometimes one)
Or I would like to be able to tell NM what level to assign to each bar.
I have to use 'watch iwconfig' for that
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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