WiFi Explorer

WiFi Explorer

WiFi Explorer, version 2.0 running on OS X 10.10.3
Original author(s) Adrian Granados
Initial release January 17, 2012 (2012-01-17)
Stable release
2.2 / September 7, 2016 (2016-09-07)
Preview release
2.1 / December 15, 2015 (2015-12-15)
Development status Active
Written in Objective-C
Operating system OS X
Available in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Type Wi-Fi network scanner
License Proprietary commercial software
Website www.wifiexplorer.net

WiFi Explorer is a wireless network scanner tool for OS X that can help users identify channel conflicts, overlapping and network configuration issues that may be affecting the connectivity or performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks.

History

WiFi Explorer began as a desktop alternative to WiFi Analyzer, an iPhone app for wireless network scanning that was pulled out from Apple's App Store in March, 2010 due to the use of private frameworks.[1][2] Since its first release, WiFi Explorer incorporated features that were not included in the last available version of WiFi Analyzer, such as support for 5 GHz networks and 40 MHz channel widths. Starting in version 1.5, WiFi Explorer includes support for 802.11ac networks, as well as 80 and 160 MHz channel widths.

Features

Limitations

Due to limitations of Apple's CoreWLAN framework,[3] WiFi Explorer is unable to detect hidden networks (except when associated) and does not support external (USB) wireless adapters.

System requirements

See also

References

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