This reading was pulled off of the 21dBi Dish facing Nanimo at 0200 Feb 19.

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And this one is from 0711 the same morning...

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This shows all of the radios on the network and their signal strengths. Note the distances.

      Radio   Name      Address         Type    Route Known since
      -----   ----      -------         ----    ----- -----------
self    2       bcfmca  00-00-f0-a7   Repeater
parent  3  ve7scc(sfu)  00-00-c1-77    >ROOT<     3          00:00:02
        4       ve7nwc  00-00-c0-dd     Leaf      3          00:00:02
child   5        va7dx  00-00-c0-de     Leaf      5          15:02:32

DIRECT LINKS:
      Node      Name  Ch Speed Pwr RSSI   Km      Data           Dropped
       #                  Mbps dBm  dBm Miles     Pkts        Pkts         %
     -----     ------ -- ----- --- ---- -----  ----------  -----------   ----
from parent broadcast 25    11      -62             61071           49    0.0
 to  child  broadcast 35     1  23                  52351
 to   3   ve7scc(sfu) 15    11  23  -59   8.4     2287357
from  3   ve7scc(sfu) 25    11  23  -62   5.2     2470791          431    0.0
 to   5         va7dx 35     1  23  -64  76.2      260505
from  5         va7dx 32     1  23  -70  47.6      239915          946    0.3

In the telnet session this window is chaning to show the signal strength each 1/2 second. Here is a capture of a standard report.

Press any key to stop monitoring link
      Node      Name  Ch Speed Pwr RSSI   Km      Data           Dropped
       #                  Mbps dBm  dBm Miles     Pkts        Pkts         %
     -----     ------ -- ----- --- ---- -----  ----------  -----------   ----
 to   5         va7dx 35     1  23  -64  76.4      267165
from  5         va7dx 32     1  23  -69  47.7      245763          960    0.3

SFUtoSeymour (last edited 2006-08-03 19:07:40 by GPf-T200)