Re: Power on bar

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com>]

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