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echo: aust_modem
to: Jason Le Vaillant
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1996-03-31 08:24:24
subject: Line Signal Quality Test

Jason, at 22:28 on Mar 26 1996, you wrote to All...

JLV> My modem has a Rockwell chipset and I have been using AT%Q to do a line 
JLV> signal quality test.  The only thing that I'm not sure about is whether 
JLV> higher is better or lower is better.  Can someone please explain the 3 
JLV> digit number that it returns?

The number represents signal quality in -dBm, which means that the higher
the number, the worse the signal.  For example, your %Q might return a
value of 024 (or -24dBm), which would be TWICE as strong a signal as
-30dBm.

Regards, Bill

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