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#1 2007-09-03 1:29 pm
- jerwin
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Interpreting airport signal and noise
I have a little problem-- in my household, I'm the network administrator. My flatmate uses airport (on an iBook), and we have a airport extreme router. I use a wired connection into one of the ports, so these things are a little unfamiliar to me.
Using the airport utility, I'm able to get a
a signal strength of -54 db, and a noise of -94 db.
my question is this: could those figures stand improvement, or are they in the right ballpark? Occasionally, I get complaints about the network performance, such as "I can't connect to the network," and I'd like to be able to narrow down the possible problems.
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#2 2007-09-15 7:21 am
- jb
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Re: Interpreting airport signal and noise
I have a computer about 5 meters away from an airport, clear line of sight, with signal -63, noise -92 (rate 54)
My laptop, a bit further away, has signal -66, noise -96 (rate 48).
These computers both connect to the LAN quite well, and I can run VLC with little lag or noticeable effect.
In summary, your numbers seem to be fine. But obviously that's just a snapshop from 5 minutes, at the most. I've found moving my base station around, away from walls, helped tremendously.
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