The program also reports the BSS Type, but my experience has been that it is pretty much always Infrastructure. The fields that most interest me are the SSID, Average Signal Quality, the Channel being used by the SSID, the Channel width and the range of impacted Channels, the company that made the router/access point, the router name and and model, Security (WPA2-PSK normally), Cipher and WPS Support.Ī cipher value of CCMP is the most secure it is typically referred to as AES elsewhere. The screenshot above illustrates this, but even that screenshot shows only half the available data.

These fields are just the tip of the data iceberg offered by WifiInfoView. Michael Horowitz/IDGĪ sample of the huge amount of Wi-Fi related data provided by WifiInfoView Some devices from Arris, Belkin and Netgear do not provide this data others do. Among the companies that do offer it are Ruckus, Technicolor, Asus, Ubee and Securifi. Neither do Apple routers, Google Wifi or the Linksys WRT120N, E2500 and E1200.

My Pepwave Surf SOHO does not provide this data. The program documentation says that is only available from devices that report 'BSS Load' information. Sadly, not all routers and access points report this information. The current version is 2.27 they were added in version 2.25. The Station Count and Channel Utilization fields are new additions to WifiInfoView.

That the 2.4GHz network shows as 38.4 percent busy without any connected devices is discussed later. Considering how many people were using the 5GHz network, it is no surprise that it shows as 83.1 percent busy. Next to this is the Channel Utilization, the routers opinion of how busy its Wi-Fi channel is. There were 57 devices using the 5GHz network, and none on the 2.4GHz network. stations) connected to a given network/SSID. What was a surprise was the Stations Count, which is the number of devices (a.k.a. The WPS Support column shows that whoever configured the router did not bother to disable WPS. The PHY Type column shows that the 5GHz network supports Wi-FI N and ac and that the 2.4GHz network supports Wi-Fi N and G. The last column, Maximum Speed, illustrates the point about speeds. Two coffee shop networks, one on each frequency band, as displayed by WifiInfoViewĪbove is a small excerpt from the WifiInfoView report showing the two networks (each had a different SSID) belonging to the coffee shop.

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