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Wifi [Components, Stand-Alone Components, IceBox Services, C++, Linux] Provides wireless interface data. More... Wifi is a component that accesses the wireless interfaces on a host and gets their data such as signal strength. Provides Home Wifi [Wifi.Provides.Wifi] Status Requires None. Configuration Wifi.Config.Driver (string) Type of driver Valid values: { 'hardware', 'fake' } Default: 'hardware'- Wifi.Config.SnrWarningThreshhold (int in dBm) If Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) falls below this threshhold, a warning is issued through status and tracer Default: 10 An example configuration file is installed into [ORCA-INSTALL-DIR]/share/orca/cfg/ directory. Signal strength The reported values for signal, noise, and link quality are totally hardware and driver-dependent. Here's a loose list of what we know about certain drivers: MadWifi (see http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/RSSI) Signal: signal in dBm Noise: noise in dBm Link quality: represents Signal-to-Noise (SNR) ratio (SNR=signal-noise) SNR values: 10: weak signal 20: decent signal 40+: very strong signal Authors Tobias Kaupp

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