Hi Geoff,
You wrote in another thread on WiFi stability:
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As you probably discovered from ascertaining the ip address, under
system prefferences -> network, there's a box labeled "Show AirPort
status in menu bar". When checked, you can see information by either
via trackpad commander by double tapping the top with two fingers and
locating "airport" a little right of center near the top, or via the
keyboard by pressing vo-m-m and vo-arrow to thae airport menu (yet
another illistration why I almost always use trackpad commander, but I
digress).
Anyway, I read documentation indicating that one can press option-
click in order to expose a menu that shows information such as
throughput and channel number. I tried routing the mouse pointer,
disabling trackpad commander and pressing option-click, however it
only brought focus to the application. Perhaps there's another way to
simulate an option-click in vo so as to expose this menu?
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Like many things, this is in the archives <smile>. See Barry Hadder's
tip on extra status menus in SL, which I've pasted in below.
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08864.html
"I found an interesting way to get extra airport status information. I
wanted to post this because I believe that it is new to sl. Open the
status menu with vo-m twice. Hold down the option key as you left or
right arrow over the airport menu icon. Now release the option key and
arrow down through the menu. This can be done on many of the other
menus such as volume, mobileme, etc."
In fact, this was not new to Snow Leopard; it also works in Leopard,
but is a neat feature. And you can navigate to the status menu bar any
way you like, but you should have the Option key pressed before you
right or left arrow to the AirPort status menu if you want the
additional information displayed. Let us know whether this works for
you.
Cheers,
Esther
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