Aria Stewart ([info]aredridel) wrote,
@ 2008-07-14 08:48:00
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Note to users
Signal quality is measured in dBm and error rate, atmospheric pressure is measured in bar. Just sayin'.

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[info]princefool.blogspot.com
2008-07-14 03:33 pm UTC (link)
Someone really tried to measure signal quality in bar? Maybe he meant beer ;>

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-14 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Hehe. "My cell phone only has one bar right now"

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[info]marnanel
2008-07-14 03:42 pm UTC (link)
Where was this?

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-14 03:44 pm UTC (link)
All. The. Freakin. Over. It's the standard american consumer measurement of signal. "This phone is better than that phone, this one gets five bars in that spot, and the other only gets four"

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[info]marnanel
2008-07-14 03:47 pm UTC (link)
But that's crazy! You can do the Spinal Tap thing with that and just add an extra bar to the display and people will think your phone is better!

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-14 03:47 pm UTC (link)
Exactly!

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[info]noam_rion
2008-07-14 03:50 pm UTC (link)
"My internet isn't working. But I'm getting full signal strength!" (WiFi)

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-14 03:53 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. I get that ALL THE TIME. At least my DSL modems have an "internet" light.

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[info]chneukirchen.org
2008-07-14 04:03 pm UTC (link)
Actually, the German standard unit we use here is called "Strichle", which means "little bar", of course. ;-)

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[info]apollotiger
2008-07-14 05:15 pm UTC (link)
I don’t think bar is reserved for atmospheric pressure.

(And I prefer mm Hg anyhow.)

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-14 05:16 pm UTC (link)
True that.

Or Pascals.

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[info]alannaroe
2008-07-15 06:01 am UTC (link)
my phone has four bars - a country and western bar, a lesbian bar, a yuppie bar, and a blue-collar bar.

ok, i'll get my coat.

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-15 12:51 pm UTC (link)
Wow! And cell phones are allowed in all of them!

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[info]alannaroe
2008-07-15 06:02 am UTC (link)
whenever two or more bars on a phone get together, you have a bar association.

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-15 12:52 pm UTC (link)
*smirk*

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[info]turq
2008-07-17 06:33 am UTC (link)
As a semi-serious aside, it would be -awesome- if my phone -would- display dBm and error rates. My DSL router does. My satellite boxes do. My ethernet switches have plenty of error count options. Why the heck can't my phone do anything other than give me a nearly useless sloping graph.

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-17 01:42 pm UTC (link)
Blackberry.

I'd -101dbm and a usable signal on my blackberry 8 miles from a cell site, near Telluride Colorado.

I was seriously impressed by that.

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[info]turq
2008-07-18 12:16 am UTC (link)
Useful to know! I'll check out my mom's blackberry later. I wonder if there's some way to talk my Treo into giving me such information; I mean, the whole -point- of a phone with an open development interface is that such things -should- be possible! :)

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[info]aredridel
2008-07-18 12:22 am UTC (link)
Indeed. Let's hope. The cell chipset is usually the locked-down part though.

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