The wifi antenna

Marcel tanuva at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 21 13:00:04 CEST 2008


Same here. Afaik, the wifi driver is far from reliable in things like signal 
strength measuring...

-Marcel

Am Sunday 21 September 2008 12:54:24 schrieb Yorick Moko:
> i got stuff like 294/100 ....
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > You really shouldn't be attempting any tests whilst holding any wifi
> > gear right next to other bits of kit. It's like getting two people to
> > scream in each other's ears and wondering why they didn't report a
> > good experiance. I'd re-run the tests from a different room to the one
> > the access point is in and seeing what happens then.
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> > 2008/9/21 Yogiz <yogizz at gmail.com>:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> How good is the Freerunner's wifi supposed to be. If I do an iwlist
> >> scan with my laptop two meters from the AP, I get link quality of
> >> 96/100. However with the Freerunner, even if I hold it right next to
> >> the AP's antenna I get a maximum of 51/100. Most APs that my laptop
> >> finds just fine show a link quality of 0 or 1 on the FR.
> >>
> >> Is that just what the FR's antenna is like or should I contact my
> >> distributor for warranty?
> >>
> >> Yogiz
> >>
> >> P.S. I accidently sent it from a different e-mail accound previously
> >> but I have no idea if it came through. If it did, sorry for the
> >> duplicate.
> >>
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