The Wireless tab is where the Wi-Fi stumbler resides. The main portion of the application is tabbed clicking the tabs shows the different utilities. It has an old-style toolbar on the top with icons to bring up different utilities.

Its GUI has an older, simplistic look and feel. Like Acrylic WiFi, it also has a monitor or promiscuous mode to capture more traffic. Cain & Abel (Windows)Ĭain & Abel is a multi-purpose password recovery and cracking application that also features Wi-Fi stumbling, sniffing and cracking tools. It would be nice if they offered better data exporting, however. It displays both textual and graphical details, which is great for simple Wi-Fi surveying needs. Overall, Acrylic Wi-Fi Home Free is a solid Wi-Fi stumbler given that it costs nothing. There’s also a Tweet feature to post a screenshot to Twitter. Is displays channel usage, including channel-bonding, and signal strength at the same time.įor exporting or saving the captured data, the application is limited to copying up to one row of data to the clipboard and pasting the plain text into a text document or spreadsheet. Though a bit hidden, there’s an advanced mode that displays two additional graphs, one for 2.4GHz and one for 5GHz. The interface is clunky in places and documentation isn't great, but Acrylic WiFi Free looks good and works as advertised.By default, the bottom portion of the application shows the network ratings of the selected SSID, and one graph showing each SSID’s signal strength. There's also an optional Monitor Mode which uses Acrylic's own driver to monitor network packets and may help you identify hidden networks.Ī $47.99 (lifetime license) professional version takes the product further by displaying more information, generating reports, capturing data via airpcap and being able to work with pcap files, too. In addition, a Signal Strength chart plots the strength of each signal over time, while '2.4GHz APs' and '5GHz APs' charts graphically show their channel usage.Ī built-in Connectivity module can run brute-force testing on your chosen network against a sample dictionary of common passwords.

The program identifies local wireless access points and devices and displays a table listing their details: SSID, MAC Address, Vendor, type, RSSI, channel, 802.11 (a/ b/ g/ n/ ac), security details (WEP/ WPA/ WPA2/ WPS), and when they were first and last seen. Acrylic WiFi Free is a free-for-personal-use wifi scanner which runs on Windows 7 and later.

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