ubuntu wireless signal low on my pc

I have 2 computers both with Ubuntu. With both of them I connect to a WIFI router.

The problem is that with one of them the wifi signal seems to be lower, i.e. it looks like the receiver of one computer is not as good as the other.

As a consequence this computer disconnects quite often because of low signal even if this is not the case, the other computer

I would like to visualize a value indicating the signal strength received on both PCs.

How to do?

user1813

Posted 2013-06-21T21:44:59.393

Reputation: 1

Answers

I've been experiencing an issue where the wifi signal was available near the modem. But a few commands in the terminal solved the issue. Follow instruction in this link :to solve wifi issue- instructions

That would solve the issue.

newmoon123

Posted 2013-06-21T21:44:59.393

Reputation: 1

Welcome to Super User. External links can break or be unavailable, in which case your answer would not be useful. Please include the essential information within your answer and use the link for attribution and further reading. Thanks. – fixer1234 – 2017-01-10T08:14:46.273

Please read the question again carefully. Your answer does not answer the original question. – DavidPostill – 2017-01-23T21:51:07.843

On the Ubuntu desktop there is usually a gauge icon in the top right corner, roughly indicating the wireless signal strength. To watch this value live:

watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print \"WiFi Signal Strength = \" \$3 \"00 %\"}''' /proc/net/wireless"

l0b0

Posted 2013-06-21T21:44:59.393

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