Well, I went in to the universal access menu, then, holding down the option key, I arrowed right till I got to the airport menu. I didn't see any of that stuff. Was I supposed to do anything else or differently?
Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > This seems to work well. You get the transmition type and some speed data. > > Cool > Thanks! > > On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Geoff, >> >> You wrote in another thread on WiFi stability: >> <begin quote> >> As you probably discovered from ascertaining the ip address, under system >> prefferences -> network, there's a box labeled "Show AirPort status in menu >> bar". When checked, you can see information by either via trackpad >> commander by double tapping the top with two fingers and locating "airport" >> a little right of center near the top, or via the keyboard by pressing >> vo-m-m and vo-arrow to thae airport menu (yet another illistration why I >> almost always use trackpad commander, but I digress). >> >> Anyway, I read documentation indicating that one can press option-click in >> order to expose a menu that shows information such as throughput and channel >> number. I tried routing the mouse pointer, disabling trackpad commander and >> pressing option-click, however it only brought focus to the application. >> Perhaps there's another way to simulate an option-click in vo so as to >> expose this menu? >> <end quote> >> >> Like many things, this is in the archives <smile>. See Barry Hadder's tip >> on extra status menus in SL, which I've pasted in below. >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08864.html >> >> "I found an interesting way to get extra airport status information. I >> wanted to post this because I believe that it is new to sl. Open the status >> menu with vo-m twice. Hold down the option key as you left or right arrow >> over the airport menu icon. Now release the option key and arrow down >> through the menu. This can be done on many of the other menus such as >> volume, mobileme, etc." >> >> In fact, this was not new to Snow Leopard; it also works in Leopard, but is >> a neat feature. And you can navigate to the status menu bar any way you >> like, but you should have the Option key pressed before you right or left >> arrow to the AirPort status menu if you want the additional information >> displayed. Let us know whether this works for you. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
