Comments on: Test Wireless Signal Strength from the Command Line http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/07/test-wireless-signal-strength-from-the-command-line/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sdb http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/07/test-wireless-signal-strength-from-the-command-line/#comment-205075 sdb Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:32:48 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=3997#comment-205075 Instead of: while x=1; do ... should do: while true; do ... Avoids confusing the issue with an unnecessary variable. Instead of:
while x=1; do …

should do:
while true; do …

Avoids confusing the issue with an unnecessary variable.

]]> By: Sam http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/07/test-wireless-signal-strength-from-the-command-line/#comment-148135 Sam Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:35:58 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=3997#comment-148135 There's another handy way to use this script: while x=1; do /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I | grep CtlRSSI | sed -e 's/^.*://g' | say ; sleep 1; done This will let my macbook read the signal strength out loud, while I'm tweaking the antenna in the other room ;-) Thanks! There’s another handy way to use this script:

while x=1; do /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I | grep CtlRSSI | sed -e ‘s/^.*://g’ | say ; sleep 1; done

This will let my macbook read the signal strength out loud, while I’m tweaking the antenna in the other room ;-)

Thanks!

]]> By: Robert http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/07/test-wireless-signal-strength-from-the-command-line/#comment-130618 Robert Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:14:01 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=3997#comment-130618 Does anyone know how you can get the signal strength of an iPhone connected to a WiFi network? If I open Airport Utility and look under: /Advanced/Logs and Statistics/Wireless Clients/ it shows me signal strength of clients connected to network, any way to get at this from command line? Thanks. :] Does anyone know how you can get the signal strength of an iPhone connected to a WiFi network? If I open Airport Utility and look under: /Advanced/Logs and Statistics/Wireless Clients/ it shows me signal strength of clients connected to network, any way to get at this from command line? Thanks. :]

]]> By: Asher http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/07/test-wireless-signal-strength-from-the-command-line/#comment-106193 Asher Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:28:34 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=3997#comment-106193 If you use this one often, you might want to symlink it as follows... sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/bin/airport ...so that "airport" is now symlinked into a directory within your $path, so subsequently instead of having to type out the full path, you can simply type e.g. "airport -I" If you use this one often, you might want to symlink it as follows…

sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/bin/airport

…so that “airport” is now symlinked into a directory within your $path, so subsequently instead of having to type out the full path, you can simply type e.g. “airport -I”

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