Re: Getting additional information from the Airport status menu

2010-11-12 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hello Ray, I have both menu and menu item verbosity set to "high". When I arrow to the airport extra menu without simultaneously pressing option vo reports seven items. When I press option-rightArrow to reach this menu, the number of items doubles and there is indeed additional data shown. I

Re: Getting additional information from the Airport status menu

2010-11-11 Thread Justin Thornton
you must aditionally to holding down the option key before entering the menu press VO plus up or down arrows hth On Nov 11, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Well, I went in to the universal access menu, then, holding down the option > key, I arrowed right till I got to the airport menu.

Re: Getting additional information from the Airport status menu

2010-11-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, I went in to the universal access menu, then, holding down the option key, I arrowed right till I got to the airport menu. I didn't see any of that stuff. Was I supposed to do anything else or differently? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac

Re: Getting additional information from the Airport status menu

2010-11-11 Thread Scott Granados
This seems to work well. You get the transmition type and some speed data. Cool Thanks! On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > You wrote in another thread on WiFi stability: > > As you probably discovered from ascertaining the ip address, under system > prefferences -> n

Getting additional information from the Airport status menu

2010-11-11 Thread Esther
Hi Geoff, You wrote in another thread on WiFi stability: As you probably discovered from ascertaining the ip address, under system prefferences -> network, there's a box labeled "Show AirPort status in menu bar". When checked, you can see information by either via trackpad commander by d