WiFi Explorer and WPA3-Personal Compatibility Mode
As WPA3 adoption continues, one challenge keeps emerging in real deployments: not all clients behave the same way. Some fully support WPA3, some partially support it, and others don’t [...]
Balancing Security and Compatibility with RSN Override
While implementing support for RSN Override in WiFi Explorer, we took a closer look at how this mechanism works and why it was introduced. If you're dealing with interoperability [...]
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 [...]
Happy 10th Anniversary, WiFi Explorer!
Today is the 10th Anniversary of WiFi Explorer! I released the first version of WiFi Explorer on the Mac App Store ten years ago, on January 17, 2012. I came [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
What’s going on, Apple?
One of the many reasons we enjoy developing for Mac is that during all these years, we've encountered very few bugs in macOS. In other words, from a system [...]
Filtering scan results in WiFi Explorer
One of the things I didn't spend too much time with at the beginning of the development of WiFi Explorer was filtering. As the tool matured, it was more [...]
