Your antivirus may detect the inSSIDer as malware as malware if the download link to net.metageek is broken. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. The app is listed on our website since and was downloaded 319 times. To install inSSIDer on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. This app was rated by 1 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.0. The latest version released by its developer is 1.1.62. The company that develops inSSIDer is MetaGeek LLC. This current iteration is good step towards having a professional tool from the client’s perspective.InSSIDer is a free app for Android published in the Other list of apps, part of Development. I’d like to see more roaming information and perhaps historical graphing of how/why/when the NIC roamed. This is a great start to giving us information on how the Mac OS X Wi-Fi NIC sees the world. As Wireless LAN Professionals we need to be conversant and understand as much about the client utilities as possible. My overall impression is Apple has continued to add small improvements to this built-in utility. The current Transmit rate is also shown, but not graphed. The final utility shows historical and real-time information on your current connection. I still like using the dedicated tools like inSSIDer, WiFi Scanner, or WiFi Explorer – they all contain more information. But it is included with this free utility. The Wi-Fi Scan tool works a lot like other scanning tools available for free or low cost in the MacApps Store. The logging function allows one to choose some options, then save these specific logs into a. No packet decode tool is included with the Apple Wireless Diagnostics tool. This file can easily be opened in Wireshark for detailed analysis. The frames are all being saved in a file until you click the ‘Stop’ button – then the file is saved as a. You will not be able to see anything happening during the packet capture. The next tab will start a dialog where you can set some basics, then start a packet capture. I’m not sure I agree with their recommendations for channels however! The Info tab will take you to a dialog showing the current Wi-Fi and network information. It is functional, but not in the normal ‘Apple look and feel’. I don’t think the normal Apple User Interface folks had much to do with this diagnostics tool. You’ll be taken to a page with a couple of options… OK, I’ll stop here and make an observation. To get to these Utilities, you can click on the Wireless Diagnostics – Window – Utilities from the menu bar. That’s enough with the automatic stuff – lets move to the parts of the Wireless Diagnostic tool that can be run in live mode to get more information on your Wi-Fi connection. They obviously can’t know your specific situation, but these are useful nonetheless. Take these as advice, coming from Apple that is. The tool also makes the following recommendations for your Wi-Fi network. This is the wireless-diagnostics-XXXX.log file Here’s an example of one of these reports. These include some detailed information on the state of your Macintosh computer. gz compressed file with a bunch of log files to your desktop. The tool will not generate a diagnostics report and save a. Or you can produce a set of log files with details about your network connection by clicking on the ‘Continue to summary’ button. (This is pretty boring… just sitting there…) At this point you can just have it continually watch your Wi-Fi connection. If everything is working fine, you’ll get a confirmation your wireless is working as expected. If you touch the ‘continue’ button, the tool will then do a set of diagnostic routines on your current Wi-Fi connection. You’ll be first greeted with a description of the tool and what it can do for you. If you go to the bottom of this screen you can choose the ‘Open Wireless Diagnostics…’ You’ll also see here the channel, type of security as well as RSSI and Transmit rate. This alone is a useful set of information. Including the current MCS index and the BSSID of your associated Access Point. This will bring up more details about your Wi-Fi connection. This latest improvement was to the included Wireless Diagnostic Tool that is included in the 10.8.4 update.įirst go to the Apple Menu and choose Software update and follow the directions to update your copy of Mac OS X to 10.8.4 – this will require a restart.Īfter installing the updated OS, you can access the new diagnostic tool by holding down the Option key when clicking on the Wi-Fi icon. Macintosh OS X has improved it’s built-in Wi-Fi client over the years. A PDF Version of this post – with graphics and ready for printing is available here:
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