On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:33 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:48 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 23:15 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote: > > > Hello everybody, I am new in this mail list. > > > > > > I want to know if is posible to add the power level (on numbers) on > > > the bar for each wifi. > > > > You mean an actual % number in addition to the bars? It's possible of > > course, but I also tend to think it's pretty misleading. Signal > > strength is pretty ambiguous and you can't really read anything from the > > difference between 50% to 55%. Given that, I also tend to think that > > people wanting more specific signal strength probably want to use a > > different tool that gives them direct dBm or RSSI in addition to NM. We > > could display that sort of thing in the Information dialog though. > > > > Dan > > > It would be very useful. > Here at university, sometimes AP are weak, but following rule always > works: > > > -79dBm - -82dBm - works fine > -83dBm - -85dBm - works at low speeds > -86dBm - -89dBm - hardly works at all > -90dBm - ... - doesn't work > > NM shows all these as two bars (sometimes one)
Sounds like your driver is not doing the right thing, or that NM has a bug in how it interprets signal strength. What hardware, kernel version, and driver are you using? Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
