Signal Strength

[Syndyre]

Checked my signal strength with ginggs's MDMA tool, just wondering what this means practically? Doesn't seem too great, -93dbm with a long usb cable and -101 without.

On the Voda speed test I got 353kpbs down, 256kbps up. Running it again I got 316 up, 206 down so not exactly fast. That's with an E220.

 

[ginggs]

Checked my signal strength with ginggs's MDMA tool, just wondering what this means practically? Doesn't seem too great, -93dbm with a long usb cable and -101 without.

An increase of 8dBm is pretty good, for every 3dBm increase you have doubled your signal strength, so -93dBm is 6.3 times stronger than -101dBm.

See wikipedia dBm article.

 

[Syndyre]

An increase of 8dBm is pretty good, for every 3dBm increase you have doubled your signal strength, so -93dBm is 6.3 times stronger than -101dBm.

See wikipedia dBm article.

Thanks, and thanks for a great app btw. Still seem to be getting cell breathing with -93dBm though. Getting -67dBm with MTN so their tower must be a lot closer.