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Wifi Scanner For Mac

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Helps you effortlessly scan for wireless networks at any given time, from your Mac's desktop, and analyze them via a user-friendly interface. #Network scanner  #Wireless scanner  #Wifi monitor  #WiFi  #Scanner  #Network  

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WiFi Scanner is a fully-featured wireless scanner and connection manager specially designed to help you scan for wireless networks and handle your connections.

Moreover, WiFi Scanner features a user-oriented interface from which you can quickly and effortlessly scan for all available wireless networks. The application also offers support for 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac networks.

In addition to scanning, you can monitor the strength and noise level of the selected wireless network, and you can also view detailed information about the manufacturer name, maximum data rate, channel number, band and width, Tx power and rate, security mode and other useful information based on AP channel assignments for access points and MAC address prefix of the device.

From the main window, you can view all available networks and check the SSID details and analyze the RSSI vs. Time graph of the selected network.

Users can join one of the discovered networks and sort the list based on different criteria such as SSID name, channel band, PHY mode, signal or noise level, max transfer rate.

The list with all found WiFi networks can be easily exported to HTML or CSV files via the File menu, and the top toolbar enables you to set the refresh interval and start or stop the scanning process with just a click of a mouse button.

By accessing the Connected SSID tab, you can view the used interface, the supported channels, along with the supported data rates and PHY modes.

Using WiFi Scanner, you can get a real-time generated graph that helps you visualize and compare the noise level and signal strength.

To conclude, all its inbuilt features and fast wireless network scanning capability make out of WiFi Scanner the ideal utility for checking, troubleshooting, verifying and even designing WiFi coverage.

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Wifi Scanner is part of these download collections: Hotspot Manager, Wireless Detector

What's new in Wifi Scanner 3.1:

  • Bug fixes
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  runs on:
macOS 10.9 or later (Universal Binary)
  file size:
13.8 MB
  5 screenshots:
Wifi Scanner - By accessing the main window of the application you will be able to scan for wireless networks.Wifi Scanner - The File menu helps you export all test as HTML files or export to CSV documents.Wifi Scanner - From the RemoteGPS tab you can customize the auto save time interval, change the listener type and customize the log file type.Wifi Scanner - screenshot #4Wifi Scanner - screenshot #5
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System Utilities
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