Author: David EmpsonDavid Empson Date: Jun 28, 2008 09:58
Richard Maine wrote:
> David Empson wrote:
>
>> To see it, run Airport Utility, double click on the base station, choose
>> "Logs & Statistics" under the Base Station menu, then click on the
>> Wireless Clients tab. You will need to know the MAC address (Airport ID)
>> of each computer to interpret the graph.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. I'll add that you also need to know a few other
> things (some of which I don't know :-() to interpret it very well.
In this particular case I was mainly interested in the shape of the
graph. It should be clear if it is getting a reasonably steady signal
from the computer in question, or whether it is fluctuating. If it
jumping up and down, the next question is to investigate why.
> Apple's "help" on it is sure worthless, doing little more than echo what
> is on the screen anyway (I can guess that the column labelled "rate"
> might be a rate). For example, the help doesn't even tell me the units
> of the rate. I see that my two systems connected at the moment have
> rates of 54, but darned if I know 54 what.
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