Fred A. Miller wrote:
>
> Now, my question is, has anyone else noticed any improvement? What was
> done in the new kernel to bring about all this joy and glad tidings near
> Christmas? ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
>
Fred, far be it for me to play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge this time
of year, but I learned earlier with 10.3 that the connection strength
meter is basically an arbitrary computation of signal strength. With my
Atheros card the meter did just the opposite. Through kernel and driver
updates the meter went from showing full strength all the time to
showing 1/2 or 3/4 strength 2 feet away from the AP. All connections
still worked flawlessly. Digging into the update, one of the changes I
was made aware of was a change in signal strength computation that
caused the difference in signal strength display. Nothing regarding the
actual physical signal strength changed, just the calculation for
defining it.
Connection behavior have improved with a more extensive connection
caching feature that allows your box to remember more of the wireless
connections it has previously been connected to. This is a real plus and
has made life much easier. Once you have entered all connection
authentication parameters once, it is usually just a matter of
right-clicking knetworkmanager and selecting the site if knetworkmanager
doesn't do it automatically.
You case may be different with real milestones being made, but the new
found connection strength may be numerical only as well.
Bah humbug.....
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