I’m using a Lenovo U640 Ideapad and notice that my wireless signals are a lot stronger while I’m in Windows 7 than Opensuse 12.1. Is this because of the firmware Lenovo included with Windows 7?
> my wireless signals are
> a lot stronger while I’m in Windows 7 than Opensuse 12.1.
how are you measuring the signal strength?
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In KDE it tells me the signal strength % of a connection by hovering over it with the mouse. In Windows I have a program that does the same thing. Plus there are bar levels for each OS. Windows is usually higher in both regards.
> In KDE it tells me the signal strength % of a connection by hovering
> over it with the mouse. In Windows I have a program that does the same
> thing. Plus there are bar levels for each OS. Windows is usually higher
> in both regards.
in that case i’d say the difference you see in both % and bar level is
nothing more than how the two different programs/OSs measure and
display the signal strength…
nothing more or less…that is to say, that the signal strength
displayed in either are in no way able to be compared to the other…
only way i would know how to prove that to yourself is to boot Windows
and then move away from the wifi connection’s transmitter/receiver (T/R)
to the furthermost distance where the connection remains stable, but
with a very low signal strength…stable is important: because if you
have placed the machine in a spot where people, trucks, busses, cows or
pigeons (etc) can pass directly between the computer’s T/R and the
wifi’s T/R, then both the signal strength meter and ability to
send/receive will vary as the things between the two move around]
then, without moving the machine (or lid–because the computer’s antenna
is in the lid) in anyway, reboot to Linux, and see if the actual
connection is then the same, better or worse…
if the connection is the same, but Windows showed (say) two bars, and
Linux showed one bar then you know that two Window’s bars is equal to
one in KDE…
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