| Takyoji | Anyone ever worked with Expat? | 00:23 |
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| Takyoji | Shouldn't I be a bit worried if iwconfig on my laptop implies: Signal level = -37dBm, noise level = -89dBm, and so forth? | 02:27 |
| kermit | thats a much better signal than mine | 02:31 |
| kermit | are you worried that it's suspiciously good? | 02:31 |
| Takyoji | just moreso of being a negative integer. :P | 02:31 |
| kermit | oh no thats fine | 02:31 |
| Takyoji | otherwise I wonder what would be full power for my wireless interface.. | 02:32 |
| kermit | decibels are a logarithmic representation of a linear value | 02:32 |
| kermit | so the sign doesnt mean any measured value is negative | 02:33 |
| Takyoji | I feel stupid for not knowing of logarithms. xP | 02:33 |
| Takyoji | despite being a senior in high schewl. | 02:34 |
| Takyoji | but yes, I get what you're implying | 02:34 |
| kermit | -37dBm means its receiving a signal strength of about 200nW | 02:34 |
| kermit | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBm | 02:34 |
| Takyoji | considering the wireless router is about... | 02:35 |
| Takyoji | 2-3 years from the laptop | 02:35 |
| Takyoji | yards* | 02:35 |
| Takyoji | Yep, sure, I'll just go with that--light years. :P | 02:35 |
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