[TriLUG] WiFi quality monitoring

[Alexey Toptygin]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Igor Partola wrote:

> My current suspicion is that the AT&T Microcell is what's causing the
> issues, but I have no good way to prove it one way or the other. So the
> questions:
>
> 1. Can a GSM microcell intermittently interfere with 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi?

I don't think this is likely. None of the GSM frequency bands are above 2 GHz.

> 2. Is there an existing piece of software that can continuously monitor
> the quality of my Wi-Fi (signal, noise, ping, actual bandwidth via an iperf
> type test) for 24-48 hours? I'd like to run it with the microcell running,
> then again without it to see if that is in fact the issue.

Why not script this yourself? Just dumpt the relevant values periodically, 
and post-process them later.

 			Alexey