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Sun, 31 December 2006 21:09

Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996

Senior Member

Hi Folks,

Happy New Year!! ;-)

Santa was good to me and put in wireless broadband link at home, which
beats
the old 31kb dialup line by the proverbial country mile.

But I'm only getting 40% of the 2Mb bandwidth plan that I signed up
for, so I'm trying to gather the Signal, Noise and SNR values from the
router every minute, and plot some graphs to wave under the noses of
the Techs at my ISP. It would just be much nicer to do the reading and
plotting in IDL.)

I'm using a Linksysy Wireless-G 2.4GHz Broadband router that provides
info on
signal strength and noise on an IP address of 198.168.1.1

Now my Firefox browser can download & display that page of XHTML info,
as can a program that I wrote in Basic that uses Windows API calls to
download a URL page direct to a file.

But, I can't get IDL's Socket command to access that IP :-(

Perhaps it just can't??

I've tried a loop like:-

for port = 1,8080 do begin
socket,lun,'198.168.1.1',port,/get
end

but just can't make contact.

Is there some special syntax or port number that should be used to
contact such a beastie?

Many Thanks,

Andrew Cool
Adelaide, Australia

PS : To anyone who knows about such things, the Signal strength is
consistently about 20-22 dB
above the Noise. Is that good/bad/indifferent for 2.4GHz
wireless broadband?

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		Using Socket to read wireless LAN router info page By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 31 December 2006 21:09
		Re: Using Socket to read wireless LAN router info page By: Carsten Lechte on Tue, 09 January 2007 02:43
		Re: Using Socket to read wireless LAN router info page By: Braedley on Wed, 17 January 2007 16:12
		Re: Using Socket to read wireless LAN router info page By: Braedley on Mon, 08 January 2007 19:36
		Re: Using Socket to read wireless LAN router info page By: Allan Whiteford on Thu, 11 January 2007 08:20

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