> 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
