Or you can produce a set of log files with details about your network connection by clicking on the ‘Continue to summary’ button. (This is pretty boring… just sitting there…)
At this point you can just have it continually watch your Wi-Fi connection. If everything is working fine, you’ll get a confirmation your wireless is working as expected. If you touch the ‘continue’ button, the tool will then do a set of diagnostic routines on your current Wi-Fi connection. You’ll be first greeted with a description of the tool and what it can do for you. If you go to the bottom of this screen you can choose the ‘Open Wireless Diagnostics…’ You’ll also see here the channel, type of security as well as RSSI and Transmit rate. This alone is a useful set of information. Including the current MCS index and the BSSID of your associated Access Point. This will bring up more details about your Wi-Fi connection.
#INSSIDER FOR MAC FREE MAC OS X#
This latest improvement was to the included Wireless Diagnostic Tool that is included in the 10.8.4 update.įirst go to the Apple Menu and choose Software update and follow the directions to update your copy of Mac OS X to 10.8.4 – this will require a restart.Īfter installing the updated OS, you can access the new diagnostic tool by holding down the Option key when clicking on the Wi-Fi icon. Macintosh OS X has improved it’s built-in Wi-Fi client over the years. A PDF Version of this post – with graphics and ready for printing is available here:
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