Comments on: Wi-Fi Scanner Tool is New in Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Here’s How to Use it

By: richard

richard — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:53:11 +0000

doesn’t really tell you how to use it like the title suggests, just how to find it…

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:53:31 +0000

Download wireshark and X11. Be sure you set it to open with wireshark or else it will open with text edit

By: Nilesh Parmar

Nilesh Parmar — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:16:49 +0000

Another tip bites the dust – great tip man and i didnt need to download any tools

By: McVin

McVin — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:01:01 +0000

Hi, I’m a mac newbie and I got a question to ask.

I’m staying in a house full of students that share 1 internet line. Can the new wifi-diagnostic tool in Mountain Lion OS helps me to monitor the traffic flow? As in to detect is there any P2P activities going on so that we are able to find out which inconsiderate bas**** is making the line lag.

And how do I view the “Captured Traffic” report? Please reply, thank you.

By: apanloco

apanloco — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:29:19 +0000

Whoa! Thanks, Scott

By: Will

Will — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:11:28 +0000

Reboot if all else fails

By: scidude

scidude — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:01:58 +0000

@Mike and @aidan
I’ve known about the option “secret” menu items for some time now. There has never been a “Open Wi-Fi Diagnostics” item there, as aidan says. And also same as aidan, when I hit command + N, some notes thing comes up, and command + t brings up fonts.
I have Lion, not Mountain Lion, everything up to date, and a mid 2009 macbook pro 17 inch, so it’s strange that his retina mbp is doing the same thing.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:56:56 +0000

I played with this utility and I got my Wi-Fi card stuck in monitoring mode. How can I turn this off?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:41:49 +0000

Follow Scott’s instruction: While holding OPTION, click the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar and select “Open Wi-Fi Diagnostics”, then press COMMAND+N to get to the Network Utilities.

By: aidan

aidan — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:44:51 +0000

well i followed the instruction opened wi-fi diagnostics when i use command+N i get notes and when i use command+T i get fonts lol i guess this new retina display mac book pro is coded differently

By: iDeMi

iDeMi — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:31:13 +0000

Very nice utility. I previously used iStumbler for this. What I have noticed is that iStumbler is displaying the names of the closed/hidden WiFi networks and the ML WiFi utility is not.

By: Krista

Krista — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:33:06 +0000

Thanks, this is awesome !

Reminds me of Kismac

By: Navid

Navid — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:17:10 +0000

Mine was Command + T to bring up Network Tools View…Nice tip Scott

By: Nemrod

Nemrod — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:46:10 +0000

No App available on my OS X

By: preller

preller — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:11:39 +0000

I guess the WiFi menubar applet uses the same framework to find networks as the Network Utilities app.
Shouldn’t it be possible to hack that applet, so that it displays the hidden networks?