![]() ![]() It should be satisfying AND tell you what to expect but an hour later you’re just wishing you’d never opened the box. It’s like a chocolate-covered fortune cookie. Instead, it’s just a bunch of fudged numbers that only leave you wanting more. It is supposed to show you the kind of overall performance by combining a bunch of factors and limiting it to the actual performance that the device is capable of. RSSI is supposed to be a measure of not only power, but quality. It’s also a way for you to feel either better about yourself or worse, if your RSSI is higher than your friend’s when he’s standing right next to you. It’s good to know that your number is pretty high but it’s usually just a way for you to feel like it could be even higher “if only” you invest more money. RSSI is usually hidden from users but some cellular systems and some wi-fi systems do actually show it to people. Except, no one ever gets the max number except in a lab. It’s usually a number between 0 and 100 (sometimes between 0 and 255) where the higher it is, the better it is. It’s actually a relative number that tells you how good your signal strength is compared to how good it could be in a perfect situation. RSSI stands for “received signal strength indicator” or “received signal strength indication.” It’s a number that is supposed to tell you how good your signal strength is, except it kind of doesn’t. ![]() RSSI is one of those terms that’s supposed to tell you how bad your signal is so you’ll spend money on fixing it.
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