How to tell wifi connection details

[Calisro]

I may be completely missing it. I am trying to either run some shell commands or from the GUI to determine how my clients are connected to my RT-AC68U router. I can easily see if they are connected to the 2 or 5 ghz channels but what I am looking for is how to tell if they are connected at 20/40/80mhz channels on the different bands or if they are connected a/g/n/ac etc. Is there a way to get details to this level from either a shell script or from the GUI (or both?). I am running Merlin's FW on this router.

 

[RMerlin]

I may be completely missing it. I am trying to either run some shell commands or from the GUI to determine how my clients are connected to my RT-AC68U router. I can easily see if they are connected to the 2 or 5 ghz channels but what I am looking for is how to tell if they are connected at 20/40/80mhz channels on the different bands or if they are connected a/g/n/ac etc. Is there a way to get details to this level from either a shell script or from the GUI (or both?). I am running Merlin's FW on this router.

The most detail you can get is from the System Log -> Wireless Log page. That will give you link rates and RSSIs for each client (as well as which band they are connected to).

 

[mstombs]

Type "wl" from a command line, there are 100s of commands with help available, most will need pretty extensive script parsing of the results to do anything though.

 

[Nullity]

"cat /proc/net/wireless" and "ip -s a" or "ifconfig" for network stats.

As the previous poster mentions, the "wl" command has a huge selection of stats and options.

 

[Calisro]

Very helpful all. This is great help. I hadn't seen the GUI page and that is great stuff. I'll checkout the shell options mentioned as scripting will be the best option for my use case. Thx!