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Wireless LAN Signal Strength Analysis Commands

************** For Windows: ************** netsh wlan show networks mode=ssid and netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid ************* For Linux: ************* To display WiFi signal strength in the terminal, you can run this command: watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print \"WiFi Signal Strength = \" \$3 \"00 \"}''' /proc/net/wireless" watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless iwconfig "Interface-Name-Here"          example:         iwconfig wlan0         or         iwconfig wlan1         or         watch -n 1 iwconfig wlan1    [for continuos observation of the link] Wifi Signal Strength(Link Quality) in Percentage: while [ 1 ];do clear;echo "WiFi Signal Strength (Link Quality)";a=$(/sbin/iwconfig wlan1 | grep "Link Quality" | awk '{print $2}' ...