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On mar, mag 04, 2010 at 09:59:43 +0800, Marek Lindner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >    I *DO* have it running on a pair of Meraki minis with villagetelco
> > software. Seems to work *VERY* well.
> 
> glad to hear that !
> 
> 
> >    I always seem to be looking for a real-time quality monitor so I can
> > adjust antennas, check range, watch radios change by themselves, etc.
> > i.e.- A real-time chart recorder widget. Thus my suggestion.
> 
> You are not the first one with such a feature request but let me point out that 
> batman is not the right tool for the job. If you want to finetune antennas 
> batman is way too slow and imprecise, since all it does is measuring packet 
> loss within a certain time frame. Deriving antenna directions from that is 
> more magic than real sience.
> 
> I'd rather suggest a tool like "horst" (Highly Optimized Radio Scanning Tool - 
> http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/) which hooks into your wifi driver to 
> retrieve real-time data about the link quality to your neighbors. Of course, 
> such a tool is highly dependend on the wifi driver and probably does not 
> support all the drivers in the world but I'm sure it can be extended.

Hi, thank you very much for your suggestion!
It is very usefull here! :)


> 
> Regards,
> Marek