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"Beacons" shows the number of announcement packets sent by the network.

The higher the number, the better the signal strength.

"PWR" shows the "power" of the network.

"BSSID" shows you the MAC address of the access points.

The table contains the following columns of information: Running airodump-ng wlan0 will display a table of information about the wireless access points within range of your wireless adapter.

Once you have enabled monitor mode, you can run airodump-ng with the name of the wireless interface you wish to use, e.g. I previously wrote a guide on how to enable monitor mode on your wireless interface. Airodump-ng installs as part of the Aircrack-ng suite, which is a collection of tools to assess Wi-Fi network security.īefore you can begin using airodump-ng, you will need to enable "Monitor" mode on your wireless interface.