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Hi,
I stumbled across this little gem in ML the other day.
If like me you are forever trying to improve your wireless reception and are relying on 3rd party apps to give you the performance stats and info on other local networks then an application was hiding on your machine all along. Some of you may already be aware of it but no harm done in posting the details I guess.
Hold down the alt/option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar.
At the bottom of the drop down menu list you will notice an option 'Open Wireless Diagnostics'...choose this and a welcome pane will open. Now the trick is to not go too deep into it just yet (the Diagnostics Report etc look to be technician tools and the report is produced in a zipped .tgz file).
Go menu bar top left Wi-Fi Diagnostics>View and choose an option from the Network Utilities list for example 'Wi-Fi Scan'.
This will open the Performance pane and you can choose from 4 options. I've attached some images below. Very useful for seeing what's happening on what channel and what's 'open' and what's not etc.
I stumbled across this little gem in ML the other day.
If like me you are forever trying to improve your wireless reception and are relying on 3rd party apps to give you the performance stats and info on other local networks then an application was hiding on your machine all along. Some of you may already be aware of it but no harm done in posting the details I guess.
Hold down the alt/option key and click on the wireless icon in the menu bar.
At the bottom of the drop down menu list you will notice an option 'Open Wireless Diagnostics'...choose this and a welcome pane will open. Now the trick is to not go too deep into it just yet (the Diagnostics Report etc look to be technician tools and the report is produced in a zipped .tgz file).
Go menu bar top left Wi-Fi Diagnostics>View and choose an option from the Network Utilities list for example 'Wi-Fi Scan'.
This will open the Performance pane and you can choose from 4 options. I've attached some images below. Very useful for seeing what's happening on what channel and what's 'open' and what's not etc.
