Check Wireless Device

Expand the branch for the device that you want to check the driver version.

Check wireless device.

This will show the device name and mac address for each device connected. The results will appear in megabits per second mbps. Monitoring data usage over an extended period of time is harder. Right click the device and.

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. Each device is tagged with an id a series of numbers and characters that can be used to identify it from the rest. Check the status of your device in canada. 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.

Smartphones show both cellular and wi fi connection status in the notification bar at the top of the screen. Using your device name and manufacturer information go online and search for your drivers download them and install them. 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. You can check the connection speed between your router or points and the wireless devices connected to those points.

Look for a list of devices. You can find a list of connected devices in the web interface for your router. Any device appearing on the blacklist is blocked and participating canadian. 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.

This will let you pinpoint any devices hogging bandwidth at that very moment. Using the device hardware ids to find the wireless device online. Momo productions getty images smartphones. It may be under connected devices or attached devices or something similar.

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. Search for device manager and click the top result to open the experience.