In line with providing apps that helps wireless users, I was wondering: is it possible to create some type of web-based widget that would show you the strength of the signal given your location? The idea is that when a user hit the portal, the portal webpage would show up and they could immediately see how far they were from the source.
First thought was a standalone web app. But I don't know how this browser-based app would get its information (packet speed?). Does a browser have access to enough information to deduce signal strength? Would it be possible to get information from the card itself? What if there was a web-based plug-in to NetStumbler. If the user has NetStumbler installed, they can click the image and the view pulls in a simple dynamic graph. NetStumbler would feed info to the web app. Would that work? Are either of these feasible? What are the issues? Thanks for the help Rob __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
