Choosing the Best Linux WiFi Scanner

Scanning WiFi Networks on Linux

As a Linux user, you enjoy virtually limitless control over your operating system. You can also use Linux to control your WiFi network in order to improve its performance and reliability. With a fast and stable wireless connection to the internet, updates will take less time to download, websites will load faster, and audio/video chats won’t suffer from stuttering.

In order to make your WiFi perform better, you need to understand how other WiFi networks that are actively broadcasting in your area are configured. A WiFi scanner application can make this task easy by automatically collecting all important information and making it easy to analyze. The collected information typically includes the WiFi band and channel settings of found networks, their signal strength, security settings, and more.

Once you know how other networks are configured, changing your WiFi settings to avoid interference and other issues that plague poorly configured networks is easy: all you need to do is log in to your router’s admin panel and make your changes.

If you have access to a Windows or macOS computer, you can, of course, use WiFi scanner Mac or WiFi scanner Windows apps, some of which are easier to use than available Linux scanners, and the best ones even have extra useful features, such as the ability to create WiFi heatmaps.