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WiFi Signal maintains up to 30 days of logs for various types of Wi-Fi events. Each log entry contains the Wi-Fi connection details when WiFi Signal detects the event, such as BSSID, network name, channel, channel width, signal strength, noise, SNR, and more. WiFi Signal generates a log entry for each of the following events:
  • Join Events: generated when the computer joins a network.
  • Roam Events: generated when the computer roams to another access point. The SSID (network name) of the new access point must be the same as the SSID of the associated access point to be considered a roam event. The new BSSID and channel information is included in the roam event details.
  • Rate Events: generated when the data rate of the Wi-Fi connection changes. This type of event is only generated when the data rate changes during the current association. Rate events are not generated if the change occurs because the computer is joining a new network or roaming to a different access point.
  • Channel Events: generated when the channel configuration of the associated access point changes. This type of event is very uncommon, and it is usually not generated if you manually change the channel configuration of your access point since it is likely that your computer will disconnect and re-associate to the access point. In this case, join and disconnect events will be generated instead.
  • Disconnect Events: generated when the computer disconnects from the network. This type of event is not generated if the computer disconnects from an access point to associate to another access point in the same network. In this case, a roam event will be generated instead.

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View logged events

  1. Click on the WiFi Signal menu bar extra.
  2. Click on the gear icon and choose Events.
The Events table shows all the logged events detected during the last 30 days. The Events table has many columns, but WiFi Signal only shows a few of them by default. Other columns can be enabled by doing Control-Click (right-click) over the table’s header.
To show only the events you want to monitor, select the event type from the list above the Events table.
To monitor events detected only during the last hour, day, week, or month, select the desired period from the Display pop-up menu.
To delete all logged events, click Clear.

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Export Wi-Fi events

You can export the logs to a text file in CSV format.
  1. Click on the WiFi Signal menu bar extra.
  2. Click on the gear icon and choose Events.
  3. Click Export.

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