Wifi Signal Strength
Wifi Signal Strength
I usually have some tid-bit to tell all of you, but this time I need some help!
How do you determine the sensitivity of your Intel WiFi? I have two notebooks (from different mfg’s) and a large older desktop. All have Wifi (the desktop has it as a PCCard) but they all seem to have different sensitivity to wifi. All are used on my desk, so location is approx. the same but when I look at “what out there”, I get a different list and different advice on ’signal strength’. Obviously, the attenna circuit can be inplemented differently on each machine. I just wonder if there is a way to “calibrate” or measure my wifi’s sensitivity?
I’m an old ‘electronics hobbyist’ and I have half a mind to build a “Signal Strength Meter” from all the parts I have from old HAM radio days. Anybody have a circuit or “Shareware” that actually has a wifi signal strength meter?
Preparing RecommendationsAbout Happy Holden
This is my 40th year in electronics and especially printed circuits. From 1968, when I first started and an IC Process Engineer for Hewlett-Packard, my first 10 years at HP took me into PCB Chemical Engineering and Engr. Mgmt., then 10 years in Asia for HP working on Application Software, to my final 8 years at HP being the PCB R&D Mgr. for boards and packaging.
After retiring from HP, I ran my own Consulting COmpany for 10 years until being hired by one of my clients, Mentor Graphics. Being at Mentor Graphics since the fall of 2006, I now focus on Advanced PCB Technologies, both for consulting and for new Mentor products.
High Density Interconnects )(HDI) is one of those advanced technologies, as well as Flex-Rigid, 3D Packaging (SiP) , photonics (waveguides) and now MEMS and MicroFluidics.
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