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Vista - Wifi API



 
 
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Old June 14th 07, 03:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
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Default Vista - Wifi API

Hello ALL,

I am writing a site survey application using wifi api supported by Windows
Vista. I want to show current wireless connection attributes like SSID,
BSSID, Signal Strength(dBm) etc.

For querying all the above values, I am using WlanQueryInterface() with
wlan_intf_opcode_current_Connection opcode. This returns SSID, BSSID and
Signal Quality in percentage.

How do I get signal strength value in dBm? WiFi API supports another opcode
called wlan_intf_opcode_rssi which returns rssi values. I am facing some
difficulties for this opcode. For broadcom adapter, it's returning dBm values
(-23, -65, -43 etc). But for cisco adapter, it's giving postiive values (23,
30, 32 etc). I think for cisco it's giving original rssi values and not dBm
values.

So How do I convert this value into dBm?

or

Is there anyway to convert signal strength in percentage to dBm?

Any idea is welcome.

Thanks
 




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