wireless signal strength
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 1 02:20:10 UTC 2009
On 01/31/2009 05:57 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 01/31/2009 01:00 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>> Qnix wrote:
>>>> Wade Smart , I was asking Bart Silverstrim about the geeky website which
>>>> sells t-shirts with wireless signal detector
>>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/
>>>
>>
>> Damn... My wife is really going to be pissed off at you! How am I ever
>> going to explain to my wife the charges on my credit card today?
>
> Identity theft. Damn hackers.
>
Yeah... and that the shirt(s) include a firewall and antivirus system as
well, so it _shouldn't_ happen again :-)
Back to Paul:
> Is there a tool to quantify the strength of the wireless signal of my home
> network at different places in house?
>
> The visual info in the guidance tray icon doesn't seem to change even if I
> move the laptop right next to the router.
Paul, in order for anyone to reasonably assist you'll need to do at
least the following:
1. Tell us what version of Ubuntu (including which desktop you are using
- Gnome, KDE, etc),
2. Tell us what you are using as your network manager; standard
installed Network Manager, Wicd, other.
Wicd allows you to modify the strength settings to use dBM to measure
signal strength. I don't believe the standard Ubuntu Network Manager has
similar. But I'm sure that others can perhaps suggest an alternate
drive-by type of program that does.
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