C# - How do I access the WLAN signal strength and others?

Robin Rodricks picture Robin Rodricks · Nov 6, 2009 · Viewed 34.9k times · Source

Many scientists have published papers documenting how devices connected via WLAN can be tracked by measuring its Signal Strength, Time Of Arrival, Round Trip Time, etc. Any idea how I can access these values in Windows using any .NET API?

Or do you know of software SDKs already available for location tracking?

Answer

khadija picture khadija · Apr 9, 2011

hello for WIndows 7 this is a good code wich can detect all AP with MAC adress RSSI SSID :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using NativeWifi;

class Program
{

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        WlanClient client = new WlanClient();
        // Wlan = new WlanClient();
        try
        {
            foreach (WlanClient.WlanInterface wlanIface in client.Interfaces)
            {

                Wlan.WlanBssEntry[] wlanBssEntries = wlanIface.GetNetworkBssList();

                foreach (Wlan.WlanBssEntry network in wlanBssEntries)
                {
                    int rss = network.rssi;
                    //     MessageBox.Show(rss.ToString());
                    byte[] macAddr = network.dot11Bssid;

                    string tMac = "";

                    for (int i = 0; i < macAddr.Length; i++)
                    {

                        tMac += macAddr[i].ToString("x2").PadLeft(2, '0').ToUpper();

                    }



                    Console.WriteLine("Found network with SSID {0}.", System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(network.dot11Ssid.SSID).ToString());

                    Console.WriteLine("Signal: {0}%.", network.linkQuality);

                    Console.WriteLine("BSS Type: {0}.", network.dot11BssType);

                    Console.WriteLine("MAC: {0}.", tMac);

                    Console.WriteLine("RSSID:{0}", rss.ToString());


                }
                Console.ReadLine();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
        }

        }
    }  
}

i hope it will be helpful enjoy