Individual Wi-Fi signal strength indicators missing

I can see the WiFi icon in my menu bar, but when I click on the icon to choose a router signal strength icons aren't displayed.
Picture of my WiFi menu: http://i.imgur.com/5rsGv.png. As you can see, none of the have signal strength indicators next to them, but their security status is stil displayed.
I've tried hiding/unhiding WiFi from the menu bar, restarting my computer, turning WiFi off and on, using "Assist Me" diagnostics and assistant, and searched for similar problems on google but I've had no luck fixing the problem.
15" Macbook Pro - Early 2011. Running Lion 10.7.4
This problem has persisted for almost a month.

Nevermind, upgrading to ML has fixed this, if anyone knows how to delete a post, do tell!

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New iPhone 6 here and going through settings I noticed that I still get signal strength indicators and Verizon name in the upper left even when cellular data is turned off. Should this be happening? I turned the phone off and then on with the same results.
I'm running iOS 8.02. iPhone 6 128g.

Thank you folks. You see, I normally travel with my iPhone and iPad. Much of my surfing is on, of course, my iPad and I have on occasion, turned off the cellular data. On the iPad, the signal strength and logo goes away. Last night at the MBP, I was playing with features on the phone and noticed what I described. I initially had thought there was an issue because I had read about excessive data usage with the new phone.
As you fine folks pointed out, this is the way it's supposed to be. Thank you for your replies.
Fred

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Could someone please tell me how to configure my WLC 2504 to set the associated access points signal strength to maximum?

You can set maximum power individually on each AP or you can set them globally to Power Level 1 which is the maximum power level by going to:
Wireless > 802.11b/g/n or 802.11 a/n/ac > RRM > Power Level Assignment Method > Fixed 1

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My network includes an iMac, Mac Mini and PC. Today, while the PC was having no difficulty accessing the internet, on starting up the iMac was unable to, showing a very weak and unusable signal strength from the AEBS. I turned off airport on the iMac, waited 30 secs, turned it on, and VIOLA had a strong signal. After months of faultless Belken performance, the AEBS may be unreliable. Any suggestions????

You're missing my point.
If say, your router uses Wi-Fi channel 6, and a neighbor decides one day to buy a router and his also uses channel 6, you will see a reduction in signal level on your iMac due to the interference on the same frequency from your neighbor's router.
This same thing can happen if your neighbor one day buys a 2.4 GHz cordless phone.
Of course if your nearest neighbor is a mile away, this isn't an issue but since you mention you can see multiple networks, it's good to check to make sure there aren't any new ones that could be interfering with the signal and/or that none of the other networks are now using the same channel as your router.
The only Wi-Fi channels that don't interfere with others are 1, 6 and 11, so in general you should pick one of those three if it's unused or the one with the weakest existing signal if you can't.
BTW, as a result of this, in many more crowded metropolitan areas, the bands are getting so crowded Wi-Fi just doesn't work any more unless a user has 802.11n equipment only, allowing them to move to the less crowded 5 GHz band

Signal strength java WIFI app

hi
im making a application that searches for all packets retrieved on a network and where
they are comming from using jpcap.
my question is, and i have been searching on google and cannot find much on. is that
how would you get the signal strength of a wireless ap
im guessing that you would just ping it.
e.g.
send a packet at it and determine how long it took to get back to you
the ferther away the longer time :)
anyideas
there's probly a easy tool in java that you can use that i have stupidly missed out on

morgalr wrote:
jwenting wrote:
morgalr wrote:
Um, NO. Radio Waves travel at 300,000,000 meters per second, approximately the speed of light, Actually they travel AT the speed of light, which is approximately 300E6 meters per second in vacuum.
Of course the speed of light is itself affected by the medium through which the radiation is travelling, usually meaning that the actual speed will be slightly lower than the speed in vacuum (though I think I read somewhere of an experiment leading in at least one case to a speed faster than that in vacuum, don't know whether that was ever reliably replicated).It seems to me that that is approximately the speed of light--300E6==300,000,000--unless you want to put qualifiers onto it--like STP or in a a vacuum.your post could have been interpreted as stating that radio waves travel at approximately the speed of light and that they travel at 300 million meters per second ;)

Signal strength poor

My computer is a floor above and about 50 feet diagonally from the primary computer linked to fios internet thru a wireless connection. The primary computer has great signal strength but mine is always poor. I heard that other wireless products might interfer with my antenna's signal. Is there a cure for this (besides hard wireing)? Thanks.

I suggest you might try several things:
1) Move the router around a little. The signal strengh at your wireless PC is affected by the path the signal has to take, how many walls, mirrors, etc, it has to go through, so moving the router a little bit might help. Try moving it both horizontally and vertically.
2) Try moving the antenna. I have mine vertical, but you can rotate it to horizontal or anywhere in between. With your PC above the router, horizontal might just work better
3) Try using a different channel, especially if there are other networks in your neighborhood. From looking at my Actiontec router, it appears that the default channel setting is Automatic, but you can change it to any channel you want, 1 to 11 (Wireless Settings ==> Basic Security Settings ==> 3.Channel). It might take some experimentation, but what you want is a channel that is not in use by other networks nearby. Some wireless cards/notebooks offer a function that allows you to see what other networks are available, and what channel each is using (including your network). If yours has that capability it might help you figure out another channel to use.
Beyond the above, another thing you could try is to buy a higher gain antenna for the router or the wireless client, but that costs money. Or invest in a wireless access point, which can be placed nearer to the computer with signal strengh problems - money again.
I suggest you try the free things first. And maybe someone else will come along with additional suggestions.
Unfortunately, wirelss can be somewhat hit or miss. I presume you are using the Actiontec router that Verizon gave you; some people report that the wireless capability of that router is terrible. I have the Actiontec, and for me the wireless signal is great, much better than the signal from the router I replaced. But your mileage may vary.....

Incredibly Variable Airport Signal Strength

I'm getting very inconsistant Airport reception on my 17" MBP, which is on my desk - about 12 meters from a Netgear Router.
As I type this message I get two bars, three bars, no bars, four bars, two bars, (all within 10 seconds). My wife's Mac mini (which is approx 3ft closer to the router) has a rock solid four bars.
Looking at the signal strength in "Internet Connect" the signal's all over the place - from 0% to about 80% and all points in-between. And randomly it drops out altogether for a moment or two.
I moved the router and changed the antenna for a directional one (which improved the average strength of the signal but not the stability); I've tried different channels; I've tried facing the MBP in different directions.
It's a little annoying, 'cause if I hit a website just as the signal drops out I get a "not connected to the internet" message.
Is this just a quirk of signals strength and atmospheric pressure? Or is there something fundamental that I've missed? We don't have a microwave, and I can't think of any other sources of inteference. And to get the router any closer would require quite a bit of rewiring - which seems to be somewhat contrary to the whole point of wireless networking!
Shall I give it up and run a cable from my wife's computer?

b and g are both on 2.4GHz although b seems impacted more by cordless phones and other devices for some reason.
I just upgraded my home net to g and the signal on this MBP is much more consistent (solid 4 bars mostly) and the range is 20-30 feet better.
One thing I did notice before upgrading was that Airport was more 'robust' when I turned off Bluetooth ...

Problems with poor wifi signal strength, need help?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated? This is a lengthy explanation. Thanks in advance.
I have a 3rd generation Airport Extreme wirelessly bridged to a 4th generation Time Capsule. I have noticed only mild increase in signal strength. Surprisingly I have only 1 – 2 bars of signal strength when standing next to the bridged Airport Extreme. There are areas of the house that continue to have very weak coverage ranging from 0 – 2 bars depending on the day and others that continue to have no wifi coverage.
The house has Cat 5 cable in all rooms. Most rooms only have a phone jack wired to the end of the Cat 5 cable but two rooms have data ports. All the wires (phone and data) run to the same junction box and are connected to, what appears to be, a simple parallel bridge. (There are a couple unused access points on the bridge. A few years back, I ran an additional line for a phone by simply pressing the colored wire into the corresponding site and the phone works fine)
It was suggested to plug the two routers directly into the data ports rather than have them communicate wirelessly. When doing this, I had no signal at the other end and the phone stopped working.
What is the best way to fix the weak wifi signal problem?
1.     Do I need to tweak my current wireless set up? (FYI, In the Airport Utility, both devices are listed and have green dots)
2.     Do I need to buy an additional Airport Extreme to bridge to the Time Capsule to cover the current dead areas? (unless there is something I should do different in the set up, hesitant to do this, since I have only seen a marginal boost with my current bridge)
3.     Would it be better to use the existing cat 5 cable and create a functional “hard wired” network that I can use to connect the two wireless routers? (If this is the answer, is this something relatively simple that I can do myself or should I hire a professional?)
Thanks again.

The house has Cat 5 cable in all rooms. Most rooms only have a phone jack wired to the end of the Cat 5 cable but two rooms have data ports. All the wires (phone and data) run to the same junction box and are connected to, what appears to be, a simple parallel bridge. (There are a couple unused access points on the bridge. A few years back, I ran an additional line for a phone by simply pressing the colored wire into the corresponding site and the phone works fine)
It was typical awhile back, where you have "whole-house" Ethernet running back to a patch panel to use the cable runs for both data and phone service. This works fine as long as you only wanted 100 Mbps Ethernet (or Fast Ethernet) connections for data. Gigabit Ethernet requires all of the twisted pairs in the CAT-5 cable and cannot share any of those pairs for phone lines.
So any wall outlet that is wired for both phone & data will not provide Gigabit Ethernet ... unless there are at least two CAT-5 cables going to that outlet. I am only mentioning this as to the potential for reduced bandwidth on some of your connections as all of your AirPort base stations are Gigabit capable.
As far as "weak" signals, I am assuming that you have configured all of your AirPort base stations for a roaming and NOT an extended wireless network ... correct? Even if you already have, please review the following Apple Support article to make sure you didn't miss anything. Please post back your results.

Loss of AP signal strength after upgrading to Clean Air on 5508's.

After upgrading three 5508's (which support 150 AP's) from WLC/WCS version 6.0.182.0 to version 7.0.98.0, our users complained about low signal strength. Our pre-upgrade RSSI benchmarks confirmed a decrease of -10dB to -20dB signal strength across all AP's, effectively causing wireless networking to be unusable in key areas.
After confirming our Global signal strength settings in WCS and WLC's were still at the same settings they were at prior to upgrading, we contacted our VAR for advice.
He suggested that perhaps the upgrade caused all AP's to run at a lower signal strength. He was right.
At his recommendation, we reconfigured the WCS to set two AP's to use Individual mode instead of Global mode. This is found in Radios/802.11b/g/n/Tx Power Level Assignment. Setting them to level 2 resulted in an average -15dB increase of RSSI, solving our problems in the test environment. In one case we saw an increase of -30 dB for one AP.
The signal strength loss due to the upgrade was not expected, based on the upgrade documentation. Now we must change the settings manually on the remaining 148 AP's.
I'd like to hear from anyone else who has experienced a decrease in signal strength after upgrading to Clean Air 7. If you have information from Cisco that documents this problem, I'd REALLY like to read it.
Hoping this may help you,
RS

Hi Rick,
this is not "expected" or "on purpose". It just happens that improving the RRM algorithm makes things better for 90% of the people but maybe worse for 10% of the people.
This is why you can set the Tx power treshold on the RRM or set the overal RRM algorithm sensitivity.
If you put the Tx power treshold to a louder number (=closer to 0) then the APs will reduce less their power level.
Hope this helps.
Nicolas
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Battery , time , signal strength bar is not getting displayed in home screen , these will be displayed only when i click on any app. Can u let me know the setting change ?

Battery , time , signal strength bar is not getting displayed in home screen , these will be displayed only when i click on any app. Can u let me know the setting change ?

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Does the Note 4 have better signal strength than the Note 3?

I have a note 3 that continually drops calls and bounces from 4 bars to 1 bar over the course of time with the phone being stationary. I believe my problems started with the last software update (as documented in numerous forums) but both Verizon and Samsung give no credibility to problems raised on internet forums. The people on these forums apparently "lack technical expertise" was my take on their explanation.
So far they, Verizon, is following exactly the same course of action to try to correct my issues as other folks have stated they tried with tech support. Replacement of the SIM card did nothing. Software reflash is next followed by a factory reset with no additional apps allowed to download to the phone.
I have not looked at a Note 4 nor do I know anyone that has one so I am reaching out for information. What is the Note 4 running for software and if you owned a Note 3 previously did you experience signal strength issues where you felt you shouldn't have? If you had, or have, weak signal strength were you able to compare it to another android phone on the same carrier to see if the problem was specific to you phone?
I understand the bars are not the best indication of signal strength but they are a quick indication. Under the mobile networks I usually have -100+ dBm and 30 +asu. If it is a software caused problem neither Verizon or Samsung knows anything about it which is good news because they should be able to correct it. I have my doubts the people on the forums are the crackpots they make them out to be. I suggested they are people like me who are desperate for help with a problem Verizon gave up on.
If the Note 4 is better I know what to ask for when they hit the end of the road with me. That will happen software and reset wise in the next week then I am off to "getting someone else's problem phone" sent to me for a swap. Last time they tried this the junk phone they sent didn't even recognize the sim card!
Thanks for any facts you can provide about your experience with the Note 3 and Note 4 as related to signal strength in both areas with strong and marginal service.

I have an iPhone 6 on Sprint for work and it stinks, I don't like the service or the phone. Had an iPhone 5s prior and although I didn't care for it it was still better than the 6.
I had a software reflash done at Best Buy and a factory reset at Wireless world. Reflash went smooth but I should have done the factory reset myself or had Best Buy do it. It will take me days to get the phone back to where I had it. Kies software from Samsung does backup the phone but you lose all the changes you have made to the Home screens and some other apps need attention to get them functional.
Signal strength remains the same but need to use it for a few days to know if it still drops calls and breaks up. If it does next on the list is running in safe mode for a few days to see if an app is causing it. If the problem still persists I have the choice of replacing it with insurance, money out of my pocket. Sending it to Samsung for testing and repair (if necessary), or having Verizon send a replacement refurbished phone. Probably will go with the refurbished phone and hang on to mine for a few days as well. If the refurb isn't any better I will return it and then send mine to Samsung.
According to Wireless World the insurance company will pay me for my phone if I trade it in before a year is up. May get up to 50% of full retail. Not sure what to trade it in for if I go that route.

Iphone in Great Britian discovers Apple tech problem - Signal Strength -

November 25, 2007
Signal trouble: British iPhone mystery
Is O2’s network to blame, or Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone?
That’s the question posed by more than a few British iPhone owners who purchased the device in the past two weeks and have been struggling ever since to get decent telephone reception on it.
The problem surfaced two days after the phone went on sale in the U.K. when “Matlock” in Derbyshire started a discussion thread on Apple’s support board entitled “UK 02 (poor signal strength/reception problems)”:
My iphone can barely pick up even the slightest signal, although on occasion can pick up 3 ars, only for it to drop out again. I have two other 02 phones, a Sony Erricson and a Nokia n95 with no reception problems at all. Is anyone experiencing same problem with their iphone, I would like to hear from you. (link)
Two weeks later, Matlock’s query has received more than 100 replies (and 3,723 pageviews), most of them registering similar complaints. Some users found that reinstalling the software made a difference. When others returned their phones for new ones, the problem went away (although some reported that the new phones were no better).
Definitive U.K. sales figures are not available, but O2 reported that it sold “tens of thousands” of iPhones the first weekend it was available.
Several posters on the Apple discussion board volunteered that unlike the complainants, they were getting great reception on their iPhones. And many owners with signal problems expressed pleasure with how well the device performed its other functions.
But unlike American iPhone owners, who tend to blame any reception headaches on AT&T’s (T) cellular network, the assumption in the U.K. seems to be that the signal problem is Apple’s. The impression is reinforced by O2, which has been referring callers directly to the manufacturer.
One clue is that many British iPhone owners can, like Matlock, compare the signal strength on their iPhone with other cellphones using the same network (one user even posted photos showing the phones side by side). Another is that the indicator on the iPhone tends to jump to five bars as soon as it is placed in the charging dock, which suggests that the problem is battery related. As user Richard Catledge points out:
It says in the manual that phone signal is adjusted to the minimum power when not in use, just enough to detect the incoming pings, then it will power up to get the best quality call. It is digital, so as long as the signal power is strong enough to reconstruct at the other end, more power is pointless. I suspect this is what you are seeing, or a slightly flakey implementation.
Meanwhile, the consensus on the discussion board is that unhappy owners should let Apple know. Writes one user who posts as ::…SAM…::,
The only way to get anything done about it is if people that have poor signal problems is to take your phone back and get it replaced. The more phones they get back, the sooner they will do something to fix the problem. Emails and complaints are fine, they can be put in a folder, high handset return numbers cant be so easy to hide under the rug.
Thanks to InformationWeek’s Alexander Wolfe for the link. See his report here.
Filed

Interesting post. My previous phone was an 02 XDA Exec, a smart phone based upon a common handset (forget which one), but the smart phone before that was the same. They all had one thing in common - poor reception.
tbh, I think its an inherent problem with smart phones. However, with my iPhone I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary really. Its better than the XDA, at least the iPhone doesn't drop out completely!
But compare it to a normal handset and the normal handset will normally have a much better reception strength.

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Just received the latest black BT Vision box replacing an older version. Old version worked really well, good picture. New one using same leads and aerial point pixellates at times horribly. The signal quality indicator usually indicates 100% and is green in colour. The signal strength indicator varies: sometimes is shows over 70dBuV and is red, other times it is around 64dBuV and is orange and occasionally it is around 56dBuV an is green. What should it be? It pixellates even when the indicator is green. I had a big new roof aerial fitted a few years ago and there is a booster/distributor box in the roof - currently running just two tv's off it, although rarely at the same time.
Why does the new box not work when the old one did? What do I need to do to cure this? Is the signal too strong or too weak?! Any ideas out there?
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Thanks for the feedback. I have tried splitting the aerial with a passive splitter - perhaps marginally better but difficult to say. Even tried splitting again to the point where the signal was showing weak. The strength indicator seems to have a colour coding, starting off red with a weak signal, going orange, then green, then as the signal is stronger it goes orange again and back to red when too strong. I have hit the green optimum region and gone either side of it. Pixellation is always there. Reading all the posts on here about this, I am coming to the conclusion that I am not going to be able to fix this.
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