Hi,
man iwconfig tells, "Link quality... depends totally on the driver and
hardware". I would like to know how to interpret the value for WPEA-127N driven
by ath9k - ideally to have a base value for estimation of "useable bandwidth"
(i.e. how much data could be sent and received per time).
Is this feasible?
Is parsing the output of "iwconfig" in intervals a good approach? Which polling
interval would be suited?
What would be a better way / correct way?
I tried "wpa_cli -p $path signal_poll", but it returns only "FAIL" (however,
commands work). Do I something wrong?
It would be good to estimate the order of magnitude (if there are 2 or 20
MBits) and having a value to compare several links. Surely this is a very
complex topic (Google found heaps of papers about), but I'm looking for a
starting point for a rough "guess", but hopefully still a bit reasonable.
Any pointers appreciated!
Regards
Steffen
Example iwconfig:
Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=40/70 Signal level=-70 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:17 Missed beacon:0
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