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Wireless device monitoring with wavemon

Wireless device monitoring with wavemon wavemon is a wireless device monitoring software that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration, and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It was written by Jan Morgenstern and is regularly maintained. It allows you to display your WiFi signal strength in realtime. Installation and start You install wavemon with sudo apt install wavemon -y And start it with wavemon and a dashboard appears. If you can’t see the function keys at the bottom, you need to make your Terminal window larger. What the information means Let’s quickly run through the data points that you want to look at to understand better the WiFi quality that your digital picture frame enjoys. Signal strength Basically, the higher the signal strength, the more reliable the connection and higher speeds are possible. The signal strength is specified as -dBm (decibels related to one ...