Bug 129100
| Summary: | Wireless applet signal strength misleading | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Matthew Saltzman <mjs> |
| Component: | gnome-applets | Assignee: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:04:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Sorry, not sure how this got committed twice. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129064 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040706 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: While connected to a very weak WAP signal from another building, the wireless applet nevertheless indicates signal strength near 100%. WinXP reports the same signal as "very weak" and wavemon reports s/n ratios in the single digits. Disabling the interface leaves the last measured percentage instead of switching to "N/A". What is actually being displayed, anyway? Signal strength as a percentage of what? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-applets-2.6.2.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install and enable wireless applet 2. Connect to a WAP at long distance and watch the signal strength meter. 3. Toggle the wireless interface between up and down. Actual Results: Signal strength meter indicates "very strong" signal (90-100%). When the link is disabled, a percentage still shows in the signal strength field and "WiFi" still shows in the status box, but is not updated. Expected Results: Signal strength meter should indicate "very weak signal" (not quite sure what's appropriate). Disabling the interface should change the status to indicated that I'm not connected. Additional info: On my home netowork, where I'm within about 30 feet of my WAP, signal strength is in the 70-90% range.