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Hi,

> Also, which is the general criteria to know from which number, that
> the output shows, is considered a good, regular, bad or "imposible to
> use" link?

the number gives information about the link quality as batman measures it. 
1.00 means 100% link quality, 2.00 means 50%, etc. Basically the idea is that 
the number tells you how many packets you need to send in order to get a 
single successful transmission. HNA are announced networks which do not run 
batman.

The criteria for a good / bad / regular / etc link is rather subjective and 
depends on your demands. Do you need high throughput or just a few bytes per 
week ?  A live video stream over a link which looses more than 50% of the 
packets requires quite some patience.  ;-)

Regards,
Marek