diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f633ad22..1e0d0363 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 byobu (5.44) unreleased; urgency=low
 
-  * UNRELEASED
+  * usr/lib/byobu/wifi_quality:
+    - minor fix for wifi quality printing, sometimes = and sometimes :
 
  -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:15:10 -0500
 
diff --git a/usr/lib/byobu/wifi_quality b/usr/lib/byobu/wifi_quality
index 36c3cd65..903ed72c 100755
--- a/usr/lib/byobu/wifi_quality
+++ b/usr/lib/byobu/wifi_quality
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ __wifi_quality() {
 		awk '$0 ~ /[ ]*Link Quality./ {
    sub(/.*=/,"",$2); split($2,a,"/");
    printf "quality=%.0f\n", 100*a[1]/a[2] };
-   $0 ~ /[ ]*Bit Rate/ { sub(/.*=/,"",$2); printf("bitrate=%s\n", $2); }
+   $0 ~ /[ ]*Bit Rate/ { sub(/.*[:=]/,"",$2); printf("bitrate=%s\n", $2); }
    '`
 	eval "$out"
 	[ -z "$bitrate" ] && bitrate="0"