Mac Airport utility wifi scanner
Can the Mac Airport utility scan and display info on nearby networks as the iOS version can? If not is there a good Mac app for this purpose?
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)
Can the Mac Airport utility scan and display info on nearby networks as the iOS version can? If not is there a good Mac app for this purpose?
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)
You can do that right on your Mac, looking at what your Mac is seeing, not what the Router is seeing.
Hold down the option key and click on the Wi-Fi icon on the menubar. you get a display like this older one:
you also immediately see names of other networks visible from your Mac, and their strength in bars.
Wireless diagnostics opens up a whole other world. There are five displays avaialable, including one that looks like most "driver" programs:
Check for Wi-Fi issues using your Mac - Apple Support
However, DON'T create a "diagnostics report" unless someone at Apple has asked for it. It is merely a DUMP of every possible setting that could possibly influence your correction. It is so big, it is embarrassing, so they compress it. It is useless.
In the next-to-last paragraph, they list the important functions available on the menus inside Wireless Diagnostics:
• Info
• Logs
• Scan -- finds Wi-Fi routers in your environment and gathers key details about them.
• Performance
• Sniffer
• Monitor
these are really interesting, and since you are looking for something like these, I think you will find them helpful.
SCAN:
You can do that right on your Mac, looking at what your Mac is seeing, not what the Router is seeing.
Hold down the option key and click on the Wi-Fi icon on the menubar. you get a display like this older one:
you also immediately see names of other networks visible from your Mac, and their strength in bars.
Wireless diagnostics opens up a whole other world. There are five displays avaialable, including one that looks like most "driver" programs:
Check for Wi-Fi issues using your Mac - Apple Support
However, DON'T create a "diagnostics report" unless someone at Apple has asked for it. It is merely a DUMP of every possible setting that could possibly influence your correction. It is so big, it is embarrassing, so they compress it. It is useless.
In the next-to-last paragraph, they list the important functions available on the menus inside Wireless Diagnostics:
• Info
• Logs
• Scan -- finds Wi-Fi routers in your environment and gathers key details about them.
• Performance
• Sniffer
• Monitor
these are really interesting, and since you are looking for something like these, I think you will find them helpful.
SCAN:
Mac Airport utility wifi scanner