• Registered: 28 Jan 07
  • Posts: 5

Topic: One more question on RSSI

The best RSSI I can get is -50 and that is sitting 3' from my pumped up router?? Obviously the further away I get the RSSI drops. Not sure why I can't get anything better than a -50. Seems to be the best I can get even sitting on top of the router?? Thanks....

Tony

  • Registered: 28 Jan 07
  • Posts: 5

Re: One more question on RSSI

I guess I'll try and answer my own question here.  I believe it's probably the same issue Socketcom has with Wf-Fi Companion and the problem stems from the fact that Dell changed the max value and granularity of the RSSI values reported by the built-in wifi card driver during the ROM update. So for A011 ROM, the range from strongest to weakest in 5 digit increments, was -25 to -90 RSSI. But that range was changed in A012, to -50 (strongest) to -90, using 10 digit increments. So even after the patch the only values that the wifi companion will be able to report using the built-in radio are 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.

Socket come says the only way to get fine granularity in information are important to you, they can only recommend the purchase of their P300 802.11g SDIO card.

It sure would be nice to have something accurate and report with fairly precise granular readings. I guess we won't get that as long as Dell doesn't redo their WLAN and ROM relationship. Sio the only way I knowe of at the moment to get accurate reading in RSSI with a Axim X51v iwith A12 ROM s to disable the onboard WLAN and use the P300 802.11g SDIO card. I hate giving up the SD slot as I need it for storage and of course don't need tha dditional expense of their P300 card.

Can WIFIFOFUM be recalibrated to the newer Dell ROM"?

Last edited by firedude (05 Feb 07 17:15:20)