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How to check WiFi signal strength in Ubuntu?

by | 2 February 2014 | Linux | 4 comments

Sometimes you want to know how is the strength of WiFi signal. It is very useful when you are in a hotel, or you want to diagnose problems with WiFi.

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In order to check WiFi signal strength in Ubuntu type in terminal:

watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print "WiFi Signal Strength = " $3 "00 %"}''' /proc/net/wireless"

 

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