After starting WLANmonitor, commence a search for available access points via the menu item File / Find access points. The access points found are listed in the middle column. Also shown here is the main information for each access point such as the name, number of registered clients, the frequency band and channels being used.
- Name of the access point
- Number of the connected clients
- Used frequency band
- Used channel
- IP address of the access point
The right-hand column (client list) lists the clients that are logged in to the selected access point. The following information is shown for each client:
- Connection quality as a bar chart
- Identification: The name of the logged-in client in as far as this is entered into the access list or a RADIUS server. LANconfig: WLAN Security / Stations / Stations Telnet: Setup/WLAN/Access-List WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / WLAN E Access-List
- Signal: Connection signal strength
- Access point: Name of the access point that the client is logged on to
- SSID: Identifier for the WLAN network
- Encryption: Type of encryption used for the wireless connection
- WPA version (WPA-1 or WPA-2)
- MAC address: Hardware address of the WLAN client
- TX rate: Transmission data rate
- RX rate: Reception data rate
- Last event, e.g. 'Authentification successful', 'RADIUS successful'
- IP addresss of the WLAN clients