Check out these great references as well: Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Our other Wi-Fi related articles There are several other articles that we have written on various Windows 10 WLAN/Wi-Fi commands that you can execute to perform various important wireless information gathering and management. We will […]
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WIndows 10 has several interesting WLAN/Wi-Fi commands you can run from the Windows 10 command or Powershell. One of them is the WLAN Report. It takes two steps to view this information. Step 1. Run Windows CMD as Administrator. Then enter the command: netsh wlan show wlanreport Here is an example output: Note that the
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I saw an interesting question recently that I thought I would offer up an answer to: In Windows ‘netsh wlan show interfaces’, what does the signal % mean? Here is an example (I have two wireless interfaces on my system – Wi-Fi is the built in wireless adapter, and Wi-Fi4 is an external adapter –
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Recently released at the Microsoft Store is a new free Wi-Fi Analyzer called WinFi Lite by Helge Magnus Keck (@HelgeKeck on Twitter) – look here: https://www.cellstream.com/reference-reading/cellstream-blog/430-winfilite. [Update – no longer available at the Windows Store – here is the download link: https://www.helge-keck.com/ – click on the download button top right] After test driving this new tool, I can
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If you attend our WLAN Operations course, one of the things we discuss is Active Scanning. Your system uses your saved Wi-Fi networks to actively scan for those networks (probing). There are potential security risks in this, especially with free networks. Most students conclude they should not remember networks in this way. The burning question
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Hi everyone! Being able to decrypt the encrypted contents of packet captures is very important if you want to troubleshoot anything above Layer 4. This is even more important today as the network is evolving to QUIC where everything is encrypted. Check out these great references as well: Our custom profiles repository for Wireshark Our
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Check out these great references as well: Our Wireless custom profile for Wireshark Our Udemy course on Wireless Packet capture Our other Wi-Fi related articles As many of my clients and students know, I have always been astonished at how hard it is to capture the Wi-Fi traffic in Windows. This article will explain the
Capturing Wi-Fi WLAN Packets on Windows for Free! Read More »
A frequent visitor here will know that we have many articles discussing the netsh command line shell/scripting tool in Windows. The tool was originally introduced in Win2K. If you aren’t a regular – just click on ‘netsh’ in the tag cloud to see them all. This article discusses how you can use the ‘netsh trace’
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Here is a simple tip for Windows users. Do you have applications that you need to start all the time, but it is a pain to locate them in the Start Menu? I have the answer. This has been around for years, but I am always surprised by how helpful this is to so many
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For those of you who run GNS3 and/or Virtual Box or VMware and would like to have a free legitimate Windows image, Microsoft Internet Explorer team has provided an answer! Did I mention it is free? Don’t believe me? Go here and look. You can download different versions of Windows with different versions of Internet
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