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#Metageek inssider for mac mac os#

wcap file will be placed on your desktop, which you can open in Wireshark. Then, when the Wireless Diagnostics Introduction screen comes up, hit Command+6 and the Sniffer window will come up so you can choose the channel to sniff and channel width.Hold option key and click the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar.

#Metageek inssider for mac how to#

(As you know,Wireshark needs a special adapter to capture wireless packets in Windows) Here’s how to do it on a Mac (Yosemite):

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Mac OS will do native Wi-Fi packet captures, as it puts the Mac Wi-Fi adapter in monitor mode.( Network Information Available per Operating System.

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Mac OS X will always show channel width, streams and noise, but Windows will only sometimes have this information (in looking at network information per operating system).

(In case you are wondering, I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014 model, with 500 GB SSD mSATA HDD and 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory with 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, running OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite) I still have a two-button mouse addiction, so I use an external Logitech mouse which comes in handy for me, even for site surveys. Then there is the magnetic DC connector for the power supply that is awesome. It even comes in a very cool and clean box (which, does not help you in Wi-Fi any, but it does make you feel clean all over!) And don’t tell me you don’t think its cool when you open the Macbook lid and the display comes up in like one second! (just try to do that, Lenovo!).

First off, don’t you just love the look and feel of a Macbook! It is lightweight, very professional looking with super clean and clear resolution in the retina version.

But when I started my new job, I knew that had to change! I wanted to speak what all my WLAN friends spoke - they ALL had Macbooks! So, it was time for me to get a Mac and really become fluent in OS X! And I learned a lot in the process. And all I could say was, “I think I have to do the dishes now or take the garbage out or clean the sewer or….” I avoided learning how to use a Mac and was really only speaking Mac on a minimal level! At night, my constant “therapy session” nightmares went like this: “Hi, my name is Glenn and I don’t speak Mac very well.” “Hi Glenn….”. My wife would bring home her Mac from work and ask me questions and then my daughter in college has a Mac and she would ask me how to do something. But honestly, although my Windows language skills were very proficient (over 17+ years in Microsoft OS and workstation support), my Mac language skills were, well….lacking.

I used to tell people I was bilingual – I spoke BOTH Windows and Macbook, too. To begin, I have a true confession to make to all my WLAN colleagues. (Special shout out to Craig Schnarrs who really encouraged me to get this blog going. And to top it off, I’ll even show a few top secret stealth pictures (cleared by the NSA…) on how I turned this Macbook into a lean, mean Wi-Fi machine! For the WLAN professional, the Macbook is the “best of both worlds”! It was a hard decision, but I chose the Macbook! Why? Follow on as I give the reasons why I chose the Mac over a Windows-based laptop, list some of the neat WLAN features and software you can use on a Macbook and share some basics on setting up VM on the Mac side and Boot Camp on the Windows side.

I started a new job in January 2015 and one of the first decisions I had to make was: “Do you want a Windows laptop or a Macbook?”.