ArminH
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Q: Personal Hotspot client monitor

Is there a way to monitor info (IP, MAC, Hostname,etc.) of clients connected to my iPhone's Personal Hotspot? Surely there must be a way to get more info than simply how many connections are currently active.

Posted on Sep 12, 2012 2:43 PM

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Q: Personal Hotspot client monitor

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  • by Bsiders522,

    Bsiders522 Bsiders522 Sep 12, 2012 2:51 PM in response to ArminH
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    Sep 12, 2012 2:51 PM in response to ArminH

    IT should let you know what devices are connected to it but thats why you put a password on your hotspot so you know its only you and who ever you give it out to to see whos using it

  • by ArminH,

    ArminH ArminH Sep 12, 2012 4:43 PM in response to Bsiders522
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    Sep 12, 2012 4:43 PM in response to Bsiders522

    And that's all I want it to tell me... who's connected... IP/MAC/Hostname of all connected clients. BTW, I have it password protected, but I'd still like to know which of the people I gave the password are currently connected. As well as if anyone unknown is connected that might have guessed my password or hacked in.

     

    Anyone know?

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Sep 12, 2012 5:04 PM in response to ArminH
    Level 9 (58,929 points)
    iPhone
    Sep 12, 2012 5:04 PM in response to ArminH

    No, there is no such app. If you think that your password has been guessed or hacked, change it.

  • by Franco Borgo,

    Franco Borgo Franco Borgo Oct 5, 2012 8:18 PM in response to Bsiders522
    Level 1 (65 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 5, 2012 8:18 PM in response to Bsiders522

    I am at home with an iPad, a MacBook Air, and my iPhone 5. My iPhone show one connected client on Personnal HtSpot. Neither my MacBook Air or iPad are connected to my Network. I would like to know some info about this client like it's Mac Address.

  • by DevonWright,

    DevonWright DevonWright Nov 16, 2012 6:52 PM in response to ArminH
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    Nov 16, 2012 6:52 PM in response to ArminH

    I need to know this also. Has anyone an answer. Or can you point me to iOS resources that would intro me to the workings of the personal hotspot? I'll build something.

  • by Daniel Sonnenfeld,Helpful

    Daniel Sonnenfeld Daniel Sonnenfeld Dec 28, 2012 9:45 PM in response to Franco Borgo
    Level 1 (26 points)
    Mac OS X
    Dec 28, 2012 9:45 PM in response to Franco Borgo

    When you connect your phone via USB to your computer, your phone will show a connection. Check out the last bullet on this  page: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2756

  • by Zohan62,

    Zohan62 Zohan62 Mar 9, 2013 10:36 PM in response to ArminH
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    Mar 9, 2013 10:36 PM in response to ArminH

    If you find out let me know because today I found 3 connections and I only had my ps3 and my desktop connected  not to sure where the 3rd one was from

  • by Franco Borgo,

    Franco Borgo Franco Borgo Mar 10, 2013 7:53 PM in response to Zohan62
    Level 1 (65 points)
    Mac OS X
    Mar 10, 2013 7:53 PM in response to Zohan62

    One day, my Laptop was connected thru Wifi on the iphone

    I saw "1 connection"

     

    Then the battery was low, and decide to connect the iphone on the laptop with the cable, then

    I saw "2 connection"

     

    so my unkown connection was in fact the same laptop counting for a second connection thru the cable.

    In fack the cable connection became the primary

  • by Four-5,

    Four-5 Four-5 Apr 18, 2013 6:40 PM in response to DevonWright
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    Apr 18, 2013 6:40 PM in response to DevonWright

    I'd love to see an app like this. I have a battery powered but headless raspberry Pi that I control through my ipad. It will auto join my iPhone hotspot if my home wifi is not detected but I can't vnc or ssh to it without connecting to a display to get its ip.

     

    Any suggestions?

  • by S_V_P,

    S_V_P S_V_P Jun 13, 2013 7:47 AM in response to ArminH
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    Jun 13, 2013 7:47 AM in response to ArminH

    if you have one of the other devices connected iether via bluethooth or with usb cable it will show as 1 connection.

  • by Waltervp,

    Waltervp Waltervp Jun 20, 2013 5:41 AM in response to ArminH
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    Jun 20, 2013 5:41 AM in response to ArminH

    I would also like to find out why in my home my iPhone regularly reports three connections to my hotspot. I can't imagine AppleTV is using the connection or my iPad when they haven't been used for 24hrs, so I like to find out! Isn't it common sense to be able to see which devices are connected????

  • by allen1957,

    allen1957 allen1957 Sep 19, 2013 11:16 AM in response to ArminH
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Sep 19, 2013 11:16 AM in response to ArminH

    I have my hotspot secured with a password of course.  Sitting in the airport and noticed 2 active connections when only my iPad was being used.  Turned out I was also connected via bluetooth to the ipad.  Turned off bluetooth on the iPhone and the second connection went away.

  • by allen1957,

    allen1957 allen1957 Sep 19, 2013 11:17 AM in response to S_V_P
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Sep 19, 2013 11:17 AM in response to S_V_P

    yep, that was it.  bluetooth

  • by allen1957,

    allen1957 allen1957 Sep 19, 2013 11:23 AM in response to ArminH
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    Sep 19, 2013 11:23 AM in response to ArminH

    Been an iPad and iPhone user for about a year now.  I noticed right off that when someone asks about a feature that doesn't exist the answer is usually something like "you don't need it" or just no.  Keep sending notes up to the device development and marketing folks.    In this case, even your most basic hotspot or router  in the real world has a feature to see who's connected by device id.

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