Bug 117497

Summary:	NetworkManager wireless connections connect at a lower rate than netapplet.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Joe Harmon <jharmon>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Robert Love <rml>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	hwinfo --wlan

Description Joe Harmon 2005-09-16 17:06:15 UTC

I am testing and comparing NetworkManager to netapplet on a dell latitude C610.
I use the same machine for the same test. If I connect to my wireless network
using the same machine, same wireless card, and the same location, the
connection using NetworkManager is about 25% and netapplet is around 70%.

Comment 1 Joe Harmon 2005-09-16 17:06:59 UTC

Created attachment 50188 [details]
hwinfo --wlan

here is my wireless information in case it is asked for.

Comment 2 Robert Love 2005-09-20 19:03:48 UTC

How are you ascertaining that the connection rate is lower?

Oh, you mean the strength meter?  The strength is calculated differently between
the two and is totally unrelated to anything we could do in user-space, anyhow.
 It is all a crapshoot, anyhow, making head or tail of what comes out of the
wireless driver wrt strength.  NetworkManager tries to be more crafty and
actually scale the values logarithmically.

Not a bug.