> At best I've seen orange at home. Took it to Jan's unit in 
> Hornsby and got green. Moving the modem about by approx 0.5m 
> at a time can help. EG at the office it's sitting on a chair 
> on top of a table near a window. I'd recommend it for roving 
> tech's in Sydney.
> 
> It also broadcasts UDP packets (at least on the ethernet 
> side) which tells all sorts of stuff like temparature (they 
> run very hot) and signal strength, time, base station id, 
> approx distance and probably more we haven't worked out yet.

I just moved house into what turned out to be a small signal blackspot, and 
found the following useful for finding a "better" spot to put my modem...

http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=2435

The lights on the modem are a basic indication, but the diagnostic software 
with the Ctrl-Shift-F10 trick goes well beyond.

- Rog


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