WirelessNetworkWatcher

NAME

SYNOPSIS

WirelessNetworkWatcher [ options ]

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

For every computer or device that is connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC address, the company that manufactured the network card, and optionally the computer name.

You can also export the connected devices list into html/xml/csv/text file, or copy the list to the clipboard and then paste into Excel or other spreadsheet application.

Columns Description

IP Address:

IP Address of the device or computer.

Device Name:

The name of the device or computer. This field may remain empty if the computer or the device doesn't provide its name.

MAC Address:

The MAC address of the network adapter.

Network Adapter Company:

The company that manufactured the network adapter, according to the MAC Address. This column can help you to detect the type of the device or computer. For example, if the company name is Apple, the device is probably a Mac computer, iPhone, or iPad. if the company name is Nokia, the device is probably a cellular phone of Nokia. By default, this utility uses an internal MAC addresses database stored inside the .exe file, but it's not always updated with the latest MAC address assignments. You can manually download the latest MAC addresses file from http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt and then put oui.txt in the same folder where WNetWatcher.exe is located. When you run WirelessNetworkWatcher, it'll automatically load and use the external oui.txt instead of the internal MAC addresses database.

Device Information:

This column displays 'Your Computer' if the device is the computer that you currently use. This column displays 'Your Router' if the device is the wireless router.

User Text:

You can assign your own text to any device detected by WNetWatcher. By default, this field is filled with the device name. In order to change the User Text, simply double-click the item and type the desired text.

Active:

Specifies whether this device is currently active. When a device is not detected anymore, the 'Active' value is turned from 'Yes' to 'No'

Detection Count:

Number of times that this device was detected on your network. Every time that a network scan is running and the device is detected, this value is increased by one.

First Detected On:

The first time that this device was detected.

Last Detected On:

The last time that this device was detected.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-i

install the WirelessNetworkWatcher command as 'Wireless Network Watcher' to the Windows™ 'Desktop'.

-u

uninstall the 'Wireless Network Watcher' shortcut from the Windows™ 'Desktop'.

-V

print program version.

options

for the native WirelessNetworkWatcher options see: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_view.html#command_line.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage message displayed.

5

program version printed.

FILES

etc/WirelessNetworkWatcher.cfg

configuration file of WirelessNetworkWatcher.

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

NOTES

Parts of this manual page are extracted from the web page: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_watcher.html.

BUGS

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.