Check Wireless Device

Look for a list of devices.

Check wireless device.

This will show the device name and mac address for each device connected. Check the status of your device in canada. Using the device hardware ids to find the wireless device online. You will only be able to check the results for devices connected wirelessly to your network.

If the vertical bars in this icon are greyed out the signal is weak and this results in a low quality connection as the number of bars increases the signal gets. Using your device name and manufacturer information go online and search for your drivers download them and install them. Momo productions getty images smartphones. On the right side of the notification bar look for the network status icon.

Expand the branch for the device that you want to check the driver version. The results will appear in megabits per second mbps. You can check the connection speed between your router or points and the wireless devices connected to those points. A good way to do this is to compare the device s mac address from the list to the mac addresses of the devices you own that could be connected to your wireless network.

It may be under connected devices or attached devices or something similar. Router firmwares like dd wrt offer the ability to see live bandwidth usage and you can check which devices are currently using the most data. Each device is tagged with an id a series of numbers and characters that can be used to identify it from the rest. Monitoring data usage over an extended period of time is harder.

However before you do that make sure to check whether it s actually a stranger feeding off your wifi or one of your devices that you simply didn t recognize. This is going to be different depending on the make and model of your router. Anytime a gsm hspa or lte wireless device is reported as lost or stolen to a participating canadian wireless service provider that device s unique imei number is added to a shared national blacklist the blacklist. Right click the device and.

This will let you pinpoint any devices hogging bandwidth at that very moment. Search for device manager and click the top result to open the experience.