Monitor Your WiFi on Linux with Wavemon

The wavemon application can be used to monitor your Wi-Fi from the command line. See 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 wa install 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 install command is:

$ sudo dnf install wavemon

Once installed, just run:

$ sudo wavemon

Here's the Wavemon screen. Now just play with the F-n keys (F1, F2, F3...)

As you can see, Wavemon is capable of showing:

• 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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