submitted 11 months ago by merikus@lemmy.world to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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I’m a pretty competent home networker who has volunteered to help a friend figure out some persistent networking problems. I think there may be an issue of signal loss due to the positioning of the router, and I want to be able to demonstrate that with data.

Does anyone know of a network surveying tool that would display, at a minimum, signal strength at various sample points? Ideally I’d like to be able to use this on iOS, but I can also use it on MacOS. I’m very comfortable with the command line if there are tools you would suggest using there.

Thanks!

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[-] CornHead764@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I haven’t found a great survey tool for iOS since my phone was jailbroken back in the day. Now adays I use Acrylic WiFi on windows, but they may have a Mac version.

There’s also airport utility on iOS, but it really can only give you basic RSSI per SSID, which in many cases is enough.

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