In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?

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On 17/06/15 12:46, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?

Depends on what the lappie is running and the dongle. Some dongles do
have diagnostic data

I do know that when I had a crappy Huewei plugged into a linux system
some years back I could get some sort of 'speed' reading off the linux
tools. But the speed was so bad I didn't really do much more than take
one look :-)

What we did find was that a long USB cable and a dongle up a pole worked
a bit better!



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On 17/06/2015 12:46, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?

Depending on the model very possibly. But make your mind up is it a MiFi
which is a standalone device that might draw power from a PC but can
just as easily run off any USB PSU or a USB mobile dongle.

Just putting the thing on a USB extender and raising it to a window will
improve the signal. Certain dongles can take external aerials.

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Martin Brown

On 17/06/15 12:46, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?


The MIFI presumably sports a web page on the device? (My old one did).
Does it have any stats?

On 17/06/2015 12:46, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?


Do you have the original Mifi or the new one (about 5 years old now)?
The new one has a 4-bar indicator.

On 17/06/2015 12:46, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?

The one I have has an internal web page where you can look at such things.

on 6/17/2015, Tim Watts supposed :
On 17/06/15 12:46, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
In the touring caravan I use a mifi, with a plugge into it separate USB
dongle and Three sim. Obviously I'm not too interested in the solid
signal between my laptop and the mifi, is there likely to be a way to
look at the mobile network signal strength?


The MIFI presumably sports a web page on the device? (My old one did). Does
it have any stats?

Yes and I've managed to find on there no, so problem solved -thanks!

I had signal strength available directly when I was just using the
mobile dongle, but since fitting the mifi, I've been wondering how to
get access to check it.

It reports the strength on the mifi's home page at the top.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk