Question regarding wlan plugin's definition of signal quality...

[Andrew Robinson]

Try running iwconfig. It should print the correct number

On Jan 11, 2008 7:34 AM, Peter N. Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Folks,
>
> I'm running Xfce on Ubuntu 7.10, with the wavelan plug-in on my panel.
> I've noticed that the plug-in gives me a signal quality of 85 percent,
> yet when I run the system monitor Conky, I get a simultaneous signal
> quality of 51 percent. Just out of curiosity, which one should I
> believe?
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete
>
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