How To Check if WiFi is connected Or Disconnected

If you are an online user and have the WiFi connection. Several time you need to check if your computer is connected to the WiFi connection or not.


You can check your WiFI connection is connected or disconnected easily with a windows command line. The command name is netsh interface. You can find out your WiFi status by using this command from command prompt.

How To Check if WiFi Connection Status, How To Check if WiFi is connected Or Disconnected

Input the below line command to know WiFi connection status on your Windows PC. For example, I checked it on my Windows 7 operating system computer.
Input:

netsh interface show interface | findstr /C:"Wireless" /C:"Name"

Output:

C:>netsh interface show interface | findstr /C:"Wireless" /C:"Name"
Admin State State Type Interface Name
Enabled Connected Dedicated Wireless Network Connection

You can see the admin state is enabled and WiFi status is connected if your Wifi is active. You can notice that when you use the command line for knowing its status.

If your computer has Wifi Enabled but internet connection is not connected to any kind of network, then the command output will show status like below.

C:>netsh interface show interface | findstr /C:"Wireless" /C:"Name"
Admin State State Type Interface Name
Enabled Disconnected Dedicated Wireless Network Connection

If your WiFi connection is disabled, then the computer gives you a clear output has given below.

:>netsh interface show interface | findstr /C:"Wireless" /C:"Name"
Admin State State Type Interface Name
Disabled Disconnected Dedicated Wireless Network Connection

Finally Done..! 

The command line helps you to know the WiFi status easily. If you have any kind of query then ask me via the comment section and visit the next tutorial.

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