Bug 9628 – Reported signal strength wrong?

Bug 9628 - Reported signal strength wrong?

Summary:

Reported signal strength wrong?

Status:	NEW

Product:	SB Receiver
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	PC Debian Linux

Importance:	-- minor (vote)
Target Milestone:	Investigating
Assigned To:	Felix Mueller

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Reported:	2008-10-02 08:02 UTC by Marc Auslander
Modified:	2008-10-13 10:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Marc Auslander 2008-10-02 08:02:50 UTC

After the firmware update to 48, I'm suddenly seeing signal strength of 10-20%.  Before the upgrade it was 70%  This is related to the restart, but I've seen a similar situation with 47, so it's not anything that's changed.

I don't believe the reported signal.  The receiver works fine, and network test runs 100% at 4000kb.  This is on a B network, by the way.

The first time, after several restarts of the router and the receiver, it "fixed" itself.  This time, so far, restarting both did not change the reported signal.

Anything I can do to help figure this out?

Router is Linksys WRT54G V2.0

Comment 1 Marc Auslander 2008-10-02 08:58:07 UTC

Now, not much later, the receiver is reporting 70%.

One thing I changed this time, but not last time, was having both my access points on the same wireless channel.  I have no idea if this is related.

By not last time, I mean that last time the condition cleared even though both AP's stayed on the same channel.

Comment 2 Chris Owens 2008-10-13 10:11:58 UTC

There's nothing I can think of to have you do otherwise.  We'll have a look as time allows and leave this bug set to 'monitor' so that support and other users can contribute.