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From: Bill Wellington on 7 Jan 2010 17:06
On 2010-01-06 20:50:46 -0800, David Empson said:

> Hold down the option key and click on the Airport menu. Point the cursor
> at one of the listed networks and after a short delay a tooltip appears
> with lots of information, including the channel. You can then scan up
> and down through visible networks quickly and note the various channels.

That is super cool. I have been using OS X since... well forever. I
didn't know about that trick. Good information to have in an
enterprise environment.

From: David Empson on 7 Jan 2010 18:01
Bill Wellington <bill_wellington(a)aw.org> wrote:

> On 2010-01-06 20:50:46 -0800, David Empson said:
>
> > Hold down the option key and click on the Airport menu. Point the cursor
> > at one of the listed networks and after a short delay a tooltip appears
> > with lots of information, including the channel. You can then scan up
> > and down through visible networks quickly and note the various channels.
>
> That is super cool. I have been using OS X since... well forever. I
> didn't know about that trick. Good information to have in an
> enterprise environment.

Just to repeat the point: it is a new feature in Snow Leopard.

In both Leopard and Snow Leoaprd, the Option key trick shows detailed
information about the WiFi network to which you are connected, but
Leopard didn't gather data about other visible networks.

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David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
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