Wifi Strength

[Dolby]

Anything to get a more accurate display/figure of my wifi signal at all?

 

[vinodh]

Found this:

From the Phone Keypad type: *3001#12345#* and then press the "Call" button

This will show signal strength in dB.

There was an app that could show more info on Wifi signal strength but it seems as if Apple removed it from the App Store.

 

[vinodh]

Ignore that. I tried it and it gave me lots of info that did not help with wifi signal strength. It shows info about cellular signal info only. Sorry.

 

[Dolby]

Sorry ... On an iPad

Yea - saw that app and also saw they removed it. Want to go through my channels and see which is the best with least interference

 

[chrisc]

The only one that seems any good is the netsh command in XP and 7

ie: netsh wlan show networks mode =bssid

If you come across a decent iPad app, I would like it. My iPad's wifi is pretty awful, works about 1/2 as well as a Windows laptop

 

[Dolby]

Yea - I read it wasn't great.

But the Tenda AP thing I'm using was R300.00 - so that could also be the culprit. I guess I need to try my phone

 

[[)roi(]]

If you use either a TimeCapsule, Airport Express or Airport Extreme -- you can use the iPad/iPhone Airport utility as an easy way to monitor the following for all devices:

• Data Rate (MB/s)
• RSSI (-xx)
• Mode (802.11x/x)
• IP Address (x.x.x.x)
• MAC address: (xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx)
• HostName: (xxxx)

Other than that this information prior iOS 4.1 was only accessible via the use of private APIs (some Apps supporting this slipped through, other didn't -- previously WIFINDER was one of the best)
After iOS4.1 Apple has provide extensions on the SDK to cater for some of this; your guess is as good as mine as to which are any good.

 

[HavocXphere]

You can check if mini-stumbler is available for ipads. Doubt it tbh.

Honestly though, just grab a laptop w/ netstumbler to check the spot/changes your interested in.

 

[Dolby]

Yea I could.

Just unreal the iPad can't do something as simple as that

 

[PostmanPot]

You don't own a MacBook?

 

[Dolby]

No?

But I do own Dual Core 1ghz iPad ... with wifi N (2.4ghz and 5ghz).

Battle to comprehend it can't do something as minor as that

 

[HavocXphere]

Battle to comprehend it can't do something as minor as that

Its not a question of whether it can do that...the device can. Its more a question of whether Apple wants you to do that.

 

[bwana]

Its not a question of whether it can do that...the device can. Its more a question of whether Apple wants you to do that.

Of course it can do it - there are apps available to give you the information but there pricy as hell (I know this from the last time he brought the topic up). Why? I presume it's because there is little to no demand.

 

[Dolby]

That was a different app ...

That was $99.00 wifi mapping and planning - now I'm purely looking at getting a figure/percentage or something rather than 3 lines with a low, medium and high.

I understand the mapping app with no demand - but I can't be the only one wanting to know how strong my wifi is?!

 

[sand_man]

That was a different app ...

That was $99.00 wifi mapping and planning - now I'm purely looking at getting a figure/percentage or something rather than 3 lines with a low, medium and high.

I understand the mapping app with no demand - but I can't be the only one wanting to know how strong my wifi is?!

If you had jailbroken and installed sbsettings you would have had the option to turn on a numeric wifi indicator which replaces the line indicator... 38 is strong, this is on my 4s, works the same on iPad..