Re: OT: Improving laptop wifi reception

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On Thursday 25 August 2011 20:04:39 Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 12:20 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > I'm not complaining about formatting. What I don't understand is why is
> > SNR equal to 46, and not to the ratio of signal to noise, ie. 42/88,
> > which is not 46, but 0.47? Or take the next row in your table: signal:
> > -52, noise: -88, SNR: 36, quality: 52%. However, the ratio of signal to
> > noise is 52/88 = 0.59, which has apparently nothing to do with the given
> > SNR value 36, nor with the signal quality of 52%.
> 
> Decibel is a logarithmic scale.  Computing the ratio of two signals is
> done by subtracting one dB measurement from the other.

Aaah, the numbers were given in decibels, that explains everything...

Apologies for the noise... ;-)

Best, :-)
Marko

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