Wireless signal better in Ubuntu

[missbliss]

Anyone have any ideas why my wireless connection would be better simply b/c I'm using a different OS?

When I was using Mandriva 2009 it was at 52 to 55 % all the time. In Ubuntu, however, it's always at 100%.

I'm at a loss as to how an OS would affect this.



What do you guys think?

[namegame]

They could be using different Scales to measure the strength of the signal.

[MarblePanther]

Or different drivers being used...

[Skripka]

Or different drivers being used...

Shifts in the sub-atomic ether...

[MarblePanther]

Shifts in the sub-atomic ether...
Disturbance in the molecular makeup of aerial corpuscles...:)

[gymophett]

Yeah, I used to pick up 2 in Vista, now I pick up 7!

[Skripka]

They could be using different Scales to measure the strength of the signal.

It could also be like the ability of KDEmod's Shaman to "overestimate" package download speed....

[init1]

It's probably different drivers.

[Grant A.]

Some network managers often work better than others, due to driver choices, scales used to measure strength, protocol handling, etc.

From my experiences, GNOME's network manager only gets me download speeds of 300 kb/s, while KDE's network manager gets me download speeds of 700 kb/s.

[Kareeser]

A >2x increase in speed? If that were truly the case, I think we'd see more than just anecdotal evidence of this condition :)

[missbliss]

So, different drivers, huh? I'm not really a techie person, so I didn't know that was possible.

[Polygon]

i doubt your always getting 100%, if its just showing that even if your far away from the access point, it sounds like a bug to me.

i get about the same % in both windows and linux, although its hard to tell as vista has no % of how strong the signal is.