This seems to work well. You get the transmition type and some speed data.
Cool Thanks! On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > You wrote in another thread on WiFi stability: > <begin quote> > 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? > <end quote> > > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
