How to know who's connected to my WI-FI?

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How to know who's connected to my WI-FI?

Network Utility? specifically where? and how?
AirPort Utility specifically how? and how?
Or in another place or app?
thanks

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 13, 2009 6:02 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 13, 2009 6:38 PM in response to Verzig

One way is through Airport Utility. Click on your Airport device on the left, go to the Base Station menu, click Logs and Statistics, and go to the Wireless Clients tab. You'll see clients listed by MAC address. If you're running DHCP on the Airport you'll also have a DHCP tab showing IP addresses of clients.

Matt

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Answer 2

Barney-15E

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Jun 13, 2009 6:43 PM in response to Verzig

Depends on what you mean by who.

Who being computers or who being users.

In Airport Utility, Summary, you can click on the "Wireless Clients" label and it will display the connected Wireless clients by MAC address.

In Terminal, type the command, who to show which usernames are logged into your computer.

Edit: I forgot about File Sharing Users. I'll have to do some research to figure that one out.

Message was edited by: Barney-15E

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Verzig Author

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Jun 13, 2009 6:52 PM in response to Network 23

Thank you all.
I didn't know about SNMP.

I found this:
"You can choose to allow SNMP on the wide area network (WAN) port by selecting the "Allow SNMP over WAN checkbox." Allowing SNMP over the WAN port lets you mange your base station remotely."

Remotely means over the internet? I didn't get it.

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Answer 4

Network 23

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Jun 13, 2009 6:34 PM in response to Verzig

AirPort Utility/Manual Setup/Advanced/Statistics/Logs and Statistics/Wireless Clients

If you don't see that, make sure Allow SNMP is on in
AirPort Utility/Manual Setup/Advanced/Statistics/

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