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Get Signal Strenghts in Windows Vista

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the Signal Strenghts of the access points around your
laptop in windows vista.
In XP it can be done talking to WMI, but this doesn't work in vista.

regards

Maarten Weyn

Apr 12 '07 #1
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Hi all,

Is there a way to get the Signal Strenghts of the access points around your laptop in
windows vista.
In XP it can be done talking to WMI, but this doesn't work in vista.

regards

Maarten Weyn

If it doesn't work in Vista it means that the "Wireless Network Interface" driver doesn't
expose this to WMI, contact your system vendor to see whether such driver is available.

Willy.

Apr 12 '07 #2
Thx

Is there an other way to get the wifi info in vista?

regards

Maarten

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>Hi all,

Is there a way to get the Signal Strenghts of the access points around
your laptop in windows vista.
In XP it can be done talking to WMI, but this doesn't work in vista.

regards

Maarten Weyn


If it doesn't work in Vista it means that the "Wireless Network Interface"
driver doesn't expose this to WMI, contact your system vendor to see
whether such driver is available.

Willy.
Apr 19 '07 #3
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Thx

Is there an other way to get the wifi info in vista?

regards
Yes, there is the "Native WiFi API" for XP SP2 and Vista. This API is a C style API, please
download the SDK and start reading the docs. There are also a number of samples included
with the sdk, illustrating the usage of these API's using C++ .

Willy.
Apr 19 '07 #4

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