You may ask what poolside means. It means at my community pool, where I don't have Internet access via Wi-Fi for my laptop.
I wish to run some AT commands like AT%NCELLMEAS at a few locations. In particular, my house is between two cell towers: closer to one. At the house, I only see signals from the networks using the close tower. I wish to head down my street in the direction of the weaker tower and see how my results change at various points along the way. Both in Linux and Windows I cannot start the simple (but generally excellent; simple is a relative term) Serial Terminal without Wi-Fi. In Linux, if I start Serial Terminal at home where I have Internet access, but then close the lid of my laptop, putting it into standby mode, I lose the entire nRF Connect for Desktop and sub-applications when I try to resume. So, it is useless. Please fix it so that it will optionally start without an Internet connection. I do not wish to use any other terminal than Serial Terminal, because they all suck relative to Serial Terminal.
Using Windows, I haven't trekked down to the pool yet, but it appears that as long as I stick with using the same USB port that I use when I bring up Serial Terminal with Wi-Fi, I may be able to put the laptop in and out of suspend with no Wi-Fi and have a working terminal. Of course, it would be nicest if the option existed to use Serial Terminal without an Internet connection in both the Linux and Windows case.
Thank you for considering my request.
Burt Silverman
