From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 09:31:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB0916A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E19943D2F for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:31:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC133D32 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:31:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: mobile@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:31:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <408BAF91.23469.295CA565@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: signal strength - what's reasonable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:31:15 -0000 Hi, I'm setting up a WAP at home and I'm learning about signal strength. At present, the WAP is in the basement, near the ceiling. Using wicontrol -L, I've been looking at the line titled "Coms quality/signal/noise". As base measurement, directly under the WAP, I get "49 103 54". The various locations in the house have values like this: 30 84 10 A 21 75 54 B - next door to WAP 33 87 54 C - one flight up (directly above WAP) 27 81 54 D - one flight up (directly above WAP) 16 70 54 E - one flight up (at opposite end of house) 6 60 54 F - one flight up (at opposite end of house) 20 74 54 G - two flights up (directly above WAP) Are these expected values? Ping times remain about 4.75ms for all locations. Comments please. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/