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Re: Is there a way to get WiFi NOISE levels for a mobile device?

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.internet.wireless, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject	Re: Is there a way to get WiFi NOISE levels for a mobile device?
Date	2015-07-03 09:23 +1000
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Paul B. Andersen <somebody@somewhere.no> wrote 
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote 
 
> Just to let you know, but not to rub salt into the wound, it worked
> just fine for me and my daughter on our Android phones.

It works fine for me too except that it crashes when I enter the settings. 
 
> It's a VERY NICE utility, as getting the NOISE level 
> is critical when debugging WiFi connectivity issues.

Yeah, and I found that when allowing my neighbour to use my wifi. 

But WiFi SNR doesn't allow me to see the wifi extender separately
which is a real downside for me. 
 
> Without that, you're just shooting blindly when your Signal Strength
> drops below, oh, about 10 decibels of the noise level on a typical
> mobile device.
 
> The signal strength meter on the other recommended app, 

Which one ?

> with the beeping, is also very nice, as you can walk around 
> the room and easily see five or six decibels difference just 
> depending on where in the room you sit.

Yeah, that would be handy. 
 
> Bearing in mind that six decibels is FOUR TIMES the signal strength, 
> this is a tool that is absolutely required for anyone who really
> needs to understand why they can't connect.

And why the connection is so flaky. That's what I would 
have liked to know when setting up the wifi extender. 

It would also be handy to be able to see when its stopped. 
That has only happened the once so far in what must be
about 6 months now. It got water into the mains cable
on a reel. I have the extender down the middle of the
neighbour's backyard, plugged into a long extension
lead on a roll up cable. I put that under an upturned
plastic bin and didn't notice that there was a crack in
the bottom of the bin and the mains socket on the
reel filled up with water after a big storm. 
 
> Of course, I do understand that, here in the USA, we often have
> such HUGE signal strength, that none of this measurement matters.

We have very little public wifi here, just the public library and McDs
and they are nowhere near my house. Country town in Australia. 
 
> It only matters when it matters, and it doesn't matter when things
> are going so well that you have low noise and high signal strength.

I share my wifi with both of my neighbours, one of them with a metal
fence between the wifi extender and their house, surprised it works fine. 
I was planning to mount the wifi engender under the eaves at the back
of the house that is nearest to both of them but didn't need to bother,
it works fine under the bucket half way down one of them's backyard.

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