Wifi signal/noise etc. - acheiving optimum performance?
Hello,
Can someone explain to me what the numbers mean for signal, noise and signal to noise ratio and what is best and worst...? I did a quick search but couldn't easily find the info to figure it out... As an example, these are my DD-WRT details of my two wirelessly connected devices at present: Laptop downstairs (about 6 feet across the room line of sight from router) Signal: -52 Noise: -98 SNR: 47 Signal quality: 50% Wireless bridge upstairs (in room immediately above router, about 9 feet away, through ceiling) Signal: -50 Noise: -98 SNR: 48 Signal quality: 54% Any advice on the above much appreciated... |
Re: Wifi signal/noise etc. - acheiving optimum performance?
Not sure what your looking for in the way of advice.
As you know i run the same router and same firmware. On a laptop in a room directly under the router i get Signal: -61 Noise: -98 SNR: 33 Signal Quality : 38% and i don't have any issues, as your signal is better your not likely to have any issues either. You can increase the wireless power output of the router if you want to improve the signal but i wouldnt bother. |
Re: Wifi signal/noise etc. - acheiving optimum performance?
Cool, cheers. It's good to see the router seems to be performing ok. I was really aiming to find out what the noise snr values really meant with regards to what is the best and worst values as they're in minus figures? Is the lower the value lower noise etc and better or is it the other way?
I have two neighbouring routers on sky, one channel 1, the other on 6. I'd like to go to 11 but it gets affected badly by a tv sender. Out of interest, does the logging function work with yours? It doesn't seem to with the DD-WRT firmware? |
Re: Wifi signal/noise etc. - acheiving optimum performance?
I'm another dd-wrt user :tu:
This might be of some use to you, taken from the dd-wrt wiki: Quote:
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Huge improvement on the official firmware. A v5 is definitely not a model to go for incidentally. |
Re: Wifi signal/noise etc. - acheiving optimum performance?
Cheers for the signal/noise info, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Strange, with two laptops in the same room as the router both show -98 on noise. The signal and signal quality are generally twice as good on my laptop than my gf's if we're sitting next to each other...possible just the different chips, I believe the wifi antennas in laptops are often wires that go round the screens or other areas, possible hers got messed up when she changed the casing on it... Anyway, re the logging feature on DD-WRT, I did actually get it to work if set to high level and set to On for all three options...I suspect the other settings may not be sensitive enough? Really interesting as it not only shows successful inbound connections but also attempted connections which were dropped by the firewall... |
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