8 Linux Commands To Find Out Wireless Speed, Signal Strength, etc.

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8 Linux Commands: To Find Out Wireless Network Speed, Signal Strength And Other Information

 

 

Linux operating systems comes with various set of tools allowing you to manipulate the Wireless Extensions and monitor wireless networks. This is a list of tools used for wireless network monitoring tools that can be used from your laptop or desktop system to find out network speed, bit rate, signal quality/strength, and much more.

 

 

#1: Find out your wireless card chipset information

 

Type the following command to list installed wireless card, enter:

$ lspci

 

$ lspci | grep -i wireless

 

$ lspci | egrep -i --color 'wifi|wlan|wireless'

 

Sample outputs:

 

0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300

 

Please note down the 0c:00.0.

 

#2: Find out wireless card driver information

 

Type the following command to get information about wireless card driver, enter:

$ lspci -vv -s 0c:00.0

 

Sample outputs:

 

0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300

Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1121

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR-

Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

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[sunrat]

Handy stuff. I just used a couple to find out my reception is better when I stick the USB dongle half way up the window. Bookmarked.

 

Happily, we finally got our broadband connected yesterday after a sequence of comedic errors by my housemates and total incompetence by the support staff at Telstra. I told them to avoid Telstra (the largest telco in Australia) like the plague but they did anyway.

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