January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
Each Wi-Fi control program provides a somewhat different set of information. Your status display may contain one or more of the following items.
Signal strength is the amount of power in the radio signal that the adapter received during the most recent scan. Most programs use the familiar five bars display to show signal strength, but some might offer the measured strength in dBm (decibels below 1 milliwatt). In practice, the signal strength value is most useful as a relative measurement to show how the signal changes in different locations.
The mode is the Wi-Fi specification that the access point is using. It will be either 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, or 802.11n. Some control programs show the mode simply as ...