Cisco provides detailed realtime statistical reporting of many link stats in their bridges and access points. Their client adapters include the Aironet Client Utility, a useful tool for site surveys and link analysis.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Foust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] 802.11b data rates > 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 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
