On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:05:20PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote: > I'm trying to understand the output of ifconfig for 802.11 interfaces > and while most of it is obvious one part isn't (at least not to me). > In the below output, what exactly does the "20dB" stand for and how do I > interpret it? Looking at the ifconfig source it would also appear that > it (whatever it is) could also be expressed as a percentage? > > $ ifconfig ural0 > ...... > ieee80211: nwid unet chan 6 bssid 00:0f:3d:0d:eb:ac 20dB nwkey > 0x8353c823e7 100dBm >
it is the received single strength indicator. take you laptop, move a bit around, go to the next room and you will see that this value increases and decreases. reyk
