


The app will actually tell you which Wi-Fi channels are better for your Wi-Fi network, so you can go straight to your router’s web interface and choose the ideal one. The app will display a list of Wi-Fi channels and a star rating - the one with the most stars in the best.

Tap the View menu and select Channel rating. You’ll see an overview of the wireless networks in your area and which channels they’re using. Just install the free app from Google Play and launch it. If you want to search for Wi-Fi channels on your phone instead of your PC, the easiest-to-use application we’ve found is Wifi Analyzer on Android. ESET malware experts Robert Lipovsky and Stefan Svorencik, speaking at RSA 2020 in San Francisco, reveal how they and their colleagues discovered a serious vulnerability in commonly used Wi-Fi chips that left more than 1 billion devices, including Amazon Echo smart speakers, exposed to hackers. RELATED: How To Get a Better Wireless Signal and Reduce Wireless Network Interference We recommend sticking to channels 1, 6 or 11 with 2.4 GHz to achieve the best stability, and for all devices to be able to find the wireless network regardless. In the screenshot below, channel 1 looks the least congested. Read the output of the command to see which channels are the most congested and make your decision. Open a Terminal and run the following command: The MBP is connected to channel 1 on 2. The command here is installed by default on Ubuntu and other popular Linux distributions, so it’s the fastest method. I have a MBP and an iMac sitting next to each other, and am temporarily trying to use a neighbors wifi. Instead, you might as well just use the terminal. You could use a graphical app like Wifi Radar for this on Linux, but you’d have to install it first.
