Re: How to show ALL nearby Wi-Fi AP's BSSID every time

On 12/14/2025 2:41 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:50:07 -0700, Marian wrote:
> 
>> However, I agree with you that another operating system's Wi-Fi adapter
>> drivers might report the full scan instead of just what's lately been
>> cached.
> 
> I'm seeing some variability.
> 
> nmcli device wifi rescan
> nmcli device wifi list
> 
> on three different machines give different lists. The most complete is the
> Lenovo laptop. Different chip sets and locations.
> 
> The equivalent 'netsh wlan show networks' on the Windows laptop shows 7.
> The ones with the signal strength below 40 come and go. netsh doesn't show
> signal strength or the BSSID. I don't know if there are additional flags
> for that or to do a rescan.e
> 
Have you consider interference?  A car is in the way one minute not the 
next.  IS there any relationship between the presence or disappearance 
of a station and signal strength?   i.e. the ones appearing and 
disappearing are weak station.

I have seen similar things on my own computer but assigned it to the 
variance of the signal transmission through the local environment and 
the change micro weather.   Some one turns on a motor, a TV, Microwave, etc