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Re: [LUG] 3G Signal Strength Indicator?

 

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:56:47 +0100
Grant Sewell wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I know some of you have 3G dongles with various mobile providers, and
> now I do too!  I've managed to get the bloomin' thing working but it's
> kinda annoying that I have no way of seeing the signal strength easily
> - I could always use the AT commands to query the device, but if
> anyone knows of a GUI strength indicator app, that'd be really
> handy. :) Applet, widget or standard app - all are good.
> 
> Cheers.
> Grant. :)

To answer my own question, I've gone for UMTSMON (SourceForge).  It's
designed for those oldschool PCMCIA 3G cards but works perfectly with
my Huawei E1550, so I imagine it'd work fine with others too.

Grant.

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