What OS X signal strength test apps exist to measure Wi-Fi networking? Is there a way I can get more details on the strength of my Wi-Fi signal?

I'm looking for either an app I can download or a system command that I can run in terminal that will expose the noise of other signals that aren't mine and may be occupying the same channel as my current network.
Apple provides two tools that most people find very adequate for normal network scanning and troubleshooting. One is graphical and the other command line based.


/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Wireless\ Diagnostics.app (on newer OS) and /System/Library/CoreServices/Wi-Fi\ Diagnostics.app (on older OS)
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport  


The former will draw a very nice graph of signal and noise for you and can perform wireless scans, Bonjour service mapping (both locally and across the internet IPv4 and IPv6), ARP, and just about anything that the normal network utility tool does except for port scanning.

I symlink the airport command into /usr/local/bin so that you can call it from any shell.

Air:~ me$ ls -l  /usr/local/bin/airport 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  89 Apr  4  2012 /usr/local/bin/airport -&gt; /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport




The terminal command is more useful for scanning and changing the way your device joins networks than getting signal or noise information, but airport -I does dump details that normally are shown when you hold the option key and click on the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar (such as MCS, RSSI, Noise, and transmit rates).

If you want more powerful tools, start with these professional quality and reasonably priced apps:


WiFi Notifications - free and simple notifications to narrow down when significant events happen on WiFi
WiFi Signal - runs in your menu bar
WiFi Explorer - full analysis and nice graphs - slightly more expensive