At 01:48 PM 6/29/2002 -0700, Vinod wrote: >I was looking to find out what speed's my orinoco gold >card can give me
For Windows-based machines, QCheck http://www.netiq.com/qcheck/default.asp has proved useful to me for determining real-world throughput. I leave the remote side running on a spare Windows machine on the wireless side of my WISP network so I can test easily from customer sites. There's something to be said for downloading a big file from www.quicktime.com/trailers, too. After working with a half-dozen company's products in access points, bridges, PCMCIA cards, handhelds, PCs and other gizmos, I'm puzzled as to why they don't provide a more uniform set of statistics and real-time status. Certainly their engineers needed these tools during development. Certainly they'd be useful to consumers to diagnose situations on their own, which will save a certain amount of tech support. Imagine a wizard to assist with antenna placement. Certainly there's an underlying wireless standard or two with specific pulse-points we'd like to watch. But even the simplest stats seems to be missing from the UI most of the time. Why can't I see the current raw speed - 11, 5, 2, 1? I haven't read the multi-hundred-page specs, I don't know if there's a technical reason as to why we can't see it. For that matter, this industry also needs a quick summary measurement, a wireless "geek code" that describes the quality of a connection: something that incorporated or described signal strength, throughput, latency, and the variability of those would be a good start. - John -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
