Wireless link quality monitor

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Wireless link quality monitor
started by: Modrak

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 22 2004,21:04

Here it comes

wifimon.sh

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
q=`iwconfig eth0 | grep Link | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's#Quality:##g' | sed 's#/92##g'`
j=$((q / 2))
echo -n "$q "
for i in `seq $j`;do echo -n "="; done
echo ""
sleep 1
done

Every 1 sec. it does something like this

Code Sample

18 =========
24 ============
26 =============
22 ===========
30 ===============
22 ===========
22 ===========
22 ===========
18 =========
28 ==============

As you can see...the link Quality isn't very good

2John...it's small so why don't add it to 0.6.1 (I'm also working on swap script in perl)

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Feb. 22 2004,21:52

Or wavemon is a possibility - it's a small wireless link monitor.

Posted by hasty on Feb. 22 2004,22:12

Damn - I'm going to have to grab the netgear from upstairs and try this out

I'm afraid this distro is getting like all the others.

Theres so much you can tinker with that I'm never going to get any work done

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 23 2004,21:13

< http://sweb.cz/bill.gates.2004/wifimon.sh >

2hasty:What 'bout yo'r netgar ?

Posted by hasty on Feb. 24 2004,18:46

Quick try with a netgear ma101 did'nt work but didn't have time to fiddle.

A friend arrived with his laptop because his 14 yr old daughter couldn't get on hotmail..doh.
Quick upgrade to ie5.5 (i know its older, so's his laptop) and all solved.
I'm officially a genius :laugh:

Will have another go at the w/e, but it's really only playing as I don't really need it.
More out of curiosity.......