Using iw to look at wireless connections.

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Made my usual hike to linuxquestions.org to see what new things I might learn and I stumbled onto this

harry@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy iw
iw:
  Installed: 5.0.1-1
  Candidate: 5.0.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.1-1 500
        500 http://mirror.us.oneandone.net/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Synaptic has it. It won’t be installed though.

Site is over here
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw

Since I just installed it. I am learning as I go. Pretty slick.

harry@biker:~
$ iw dev wlan0 link
Connected to e8:6f:f2:07:61:06 (on wlan0)
	SSID: < filtered out by hand by me >
	freq: 5785
	RX: 40142897 bytes (97014 packets)
	TX: 3273717 bytes (23362 packets)
	signal: -59 dBm
	rx bitrate: 240.0 MBit/s MCS 13 40MHz short GI
	tx bitrate: 150.0 MBit/s MCS 7 40MHz short GI

	bss flags:	short-preamble short-slot-time
	dtim period:	3
	beacon int:	100

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As for me, iwconfig gives not less, but even more information than iw:

$ iwconfig
wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:<filtered by me>  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.447 GHz  Access Point: <filtered by me>   
          Bit Rate=58.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=200 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=47/70  Signal level=-63 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

and

$ iw dev wlan0 link
Connected to <filtered by me> (on wlan0)
	SSID: <filtered by me>
	freq: 2447
	signal: -58 dBm
	tx bitrate: 72.0 MBit/s

Do not pay attention on bitrate, it may change between measures.
My iw has the same version – 5.0.1-1.

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