michael,
If you are going to be doing ongoing wireless network monitoring
(which is a very good thing to do in order to provide reliable network
operation) then I'd like to suggest that you monitor not just signal strength
but signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Reliable service requires not just
good signal strength but a low (relative to the signal level) noise level.
Monitoring SNR will reveal both reductions in signal and any increases
in noise level.
jack
P.S. - If anyone is attending the 802.11 Planet show in Boston
next week - please stop by and introduce yourself. I'll be teaching
the workshop on interference reduction on Thursday at 2:30 PM.
michael howard wrote:
> Is it possible to use mrtg, or something else, to monitor signal strengths
> of various devices on the network without dealing with the utility for each
> one, which in many cases doesn't exist or is rather useless?
>
> If someone could point me in the right direction to get this to work, it
> would be great...
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