Wireless Strength Monitor Gadget For Windows

Gadgets are useful because they are simple, light and free of-course. There are many wireless strength monitor software like netstumbler, ethereal, netsurveyor but they are too complex. If you want simple solution to monitor your wireless signal then windows gadgets would be first choice.


I tested many gadgets and most of them are useful but "Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Gadgets/Widget" is exceptional, it is different in a way that beside showing the wireless strength of the network currently connected to, they shows the available access point or network with their dBM, channel, frequency, network mode (802.11a/b/n) etc etc

Xirrus Wi-fi Monitor



Xirrus gadget showing the available network

Some other gadget which might be of interest to you:

Istat wireless

Istat wireless is a good looking gadget with lots of color to choose as shown on the image. This gadget is developed by islayer.com. They no longer make application for windows, now they are concentrating on iphone and mac applications.
Download link: Click here















Wireless Network Monitor

This is a simple gadget which monitors the strength of the signal. You can get this gadget here




Wireless Network Gadget

This is quite same as the above, the difference is it monitors wireless security. You can get the widget here




margu-NotebookInfo2


The name is funny though but this is another useful gadget. Beside the signal strength and date/time it tracks memory usage, cpu usage, battery usage. It can be found here
















Wireless Network Meter

This handy gadget acts as bandwidth monitor. It shows the download and upload speed along with signal strength, network security, IP, graph and many more. You can download this widget here