What's the best diagnostic utility for wireless signal?

[Jim Capozzoli]

On 6/20/07, Andrew Liles <al at starfishzone.com> wrote:
> I use wireless on a FreeBSD 6.1 box in an area of low signal to my
> Access Point.
> I want to be able to inspect the signal strength/quality so that I may
> adjust the antenna to get best results.  What is the best diagnostic to use?
>
> For instance:
>     wicontrol wi0
> produces:
> ...
> Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 28 47 1 ]
> dBm Coms Quality:                       [ 14 -85 -99 ]
> ...
>
> but what is "good" or which numbers should I be seeking maximise or
> minimise?
>
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Check out net-mgmt/kismet (I believe it is).  That tool is a nice
program to audit wireless networks, and it has some nice stuff about
signal strength as well.

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Jim Capozzoli
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