connection information

Daniel Holm <email address hidden> writes:

> I'd like a simple item in the menu to overlook the connection
> information. Like my IP, connection speed and such.
>
> Will there be something like that in the future?

Definitely yes, we just don't know yet how it should look like. Comments
are very welcome.

Connection speed might be a bit challenging because connman doesn't
provide it right now, but I guess we can get it from the underlying
network interface. What would you want to see how and why? Just trying
to understand the use case here.

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Kalle Valo

Start of by just creating a dialog with some info like the IP of every connected intefacem hardware adress, DNS and such.

And regarding the speed - I don't really need it, I just put it in there.

I will give it a little more thought.

Daniel Holm <email address hidden> writes:

> Start of by just creating a dialog with some info like the IP of every
> connected intefacem hardware adress, DNS and such.

This is easy to do as connman already provides the information.

> And regarding the speed - I don't really need it, I just put it in
> there.
>
> I will give it a little more thought.

I can see benefits from showing the speed, but it will be challenging to
implement. Should it be the theoretical maximum value for the connection
or the current value. For example with wifi 802.11b, you can do 54 Mbps
in theory but in practise might do only 1 Mbps if signal strength is low
enough.

And then there's even all the broken drivers and hardware which make
this even more difficult.

(Just thinking aloud here.)

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Kalle Valo