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Bug 143560 - Wireless Link Monitor shows wrong signal strength value
Wireless Link Monitor shows wrong signal strength value
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 119472
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: wireless-applet
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-06-02 07:03 UTC by Rodd Clarkson
Modified: 2014-10-10 14:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Rodd Clarkson 2004-06-02 07:03:25 UTC 
My wireless link monitor shows my signal strength to be 95% (+/- 2%)

Running '/sbin/iwconfig' gives the following output:

ra0       RT2400PCI  ESSID:"wlan-ap"
          Mode:Managed  Channel:1  Access Point: 00:04:ED:05:0D:02
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality:75  Signal level:41  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Why does the Wireless Link Monitor show 95% when iwconfig shows a 'Link Quality'
of 75%?  The config tool that comes with the wireless card reports the signal
strength as being 75%, and seems to be using the 'Link Quality' for this.

Also, the same card under Windows shows the signal strength to be about 75% too.
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2004-06-02 13:56:36 UTC 
Moving to gnome-applets.
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2004-08-04 09:12:15 UTC 
Marking as a dup of bug #119472 - it looks like its being sorted out there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119472 ***
Comment 3 Sebastian 2014-10-10 14:34:42 UTC 
This component does not exist anymore so these bugs can be removed from their group.