Monitor your WiFi on Linux with Wavemon
The wavemon app can be used to monitor your Wi-Fi from the command line. Check your Wi-Fi signal and noise level and fix problems.
Wavemon is available for several distributions. To install it on Debian or Ubuntu, use:
$ sudo apt-get install wavemon
On Arch Linux use:
$ sudo pacman -S WAe then install the wavemon using yum:vemon
On RHEL and CentOS, you may need to enable the EPEL repository:
$ sudo yum install epel-release
And then install wavemon using yum:
$ sudo yum install wavemon
On Fedora, the command to install is:
$ sudo dnf install wavemon
Once installed, just run:
$ sudo wavemon
Here is the Wavemon screen. Now just play with the F-n keys (F1, F2, F3…)
- Wireless Interface Name;
- Link Statistics;
- Signal Level;
- Noise Level (maybe it’s time to change the channel?)
- Connection statistics;
- IP address;
- MAC address
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