Using your Android device as a remote sensor
The remote sensor feature in WiFi Explorer Pro 3 and WiFi Explorer Pro for Windows allows you to scan for wireless networks using a Linux- or Android-based device while [...]
Goodbye, airport!
It finally happened. Apple has officially retired the airport command-line utility on macOS Sonoma 14.4. Although it was considered deprecated, the airport command was still very helpful for quickly [...]
Introducing WiFi Explorer Pro for Windows
For many years, WiFi Explorer has been Mac's leading Wi-Fi scanner and analyzer and the preferred choice for many WLAN professionals and enthusiasts. After announcing our desire to offer [...]
WiFi Explorer Lite now available on the Windows Store
WiFi Explorer's been Mac's leading Wi-Fi scanner and analyzer for many years and the preferred choice for many WLAN professionals. Last October, we announced our desire to make WiFi [...]
Making your WLAN Pi R4 fully portable
This post is a follow-up to our previous blog, which discussed the parts and steps to build a WLAN Pi R4 that you can use as a Wi-Fi 6E [...]
Building your own remote sensor with 6 GHz support
Even though Macs don't support Wi-Fi 6E, WiFi Explorer Pro 3 and Airtool 2 offer visibility into the 6 GHz band when using remote sensors that can scan or capture traffic [...]
The Multiple BSSID element: Improving airtime efficiency
An access point (AP) can create two or more networks on the same Wi-Fi radio. This capability, known as Virtual AP (VAP), makes a single physical AP appear as if [...]
Using coloring rules in WiFi Explorer Pro 3
We recently revamped filtering in WiFi Explorer Pro 3 and added a new feature that we believe is very helpful: Coloring rules (WiFi Explorer Pro 3 > Preferences > [...]
A new filters cheat sheet for WiFi Explorer and WiFi Explorer Pro 3
Starting in version 3.3 of WiFi Explorer and WiFi Explorer Pro 3, we've added new filtering capabilities, including the ability to filter by network attributes and information element fields. [...]
Capturing Wi-Fi packets on your Mac using external adapters
If you don't have a remote sensor, you can still do packet captures on one or more channels using external USB Wi-Fi adapters. However, because we can't use external adapters natively as we do with the Mac's built-in Wi-Fi adapter, we need EASE (External Adapter Support Environment).
