What's new in WirelessNetView 1.75
Oct 4, 2017
- Added 'MAC Addresses List' option (Ctrl+F8), which allows you to create a list of MAC addresses and their description. The description specified in this list will be displayed under the 'Description' column. The MAC addresses list is saved in 'WirelessNetView_MAC_List.txt' located in the same folder of WirelessNetView.exe
New in WirelessNetView 1.72 (Aug 31, 2016)
- The connection name is now displayed in the adapters list of 'Advanced Options' window
New in WirelessNetView 1.71 (May 19, 2016)
- Fixed WirelessNetView to ignore false items with 00-00-00-00-00-00 MAC address
New in WirelessNetView 1.70 (May 3, 2016)
- Added SHA-256 digital signature, in order to avoid from 'signature is corrupt or invalid' error message on Windows 7 or later
New in WirelessNetView 1.69 (Feb 25, 2016)
New in WirelessNetView 1.68 (Aug 5, 2015)
- Added 'Auto Size Columns On Update' option.
New in WirelessNetView 1.67 (Jun 2, 2015)
- Fixed WirelessNetView to detect and calculate the maximum speed of 802.11ac networks (On Windows Vista or later).
New in WirelessNetView 1.66 (Apr 22, 2015)
- WirelessNetView now displays 'Cannot find wireless adapter !' message in the bottom status bar when there is no wireless adapter
New in WirelessNetView 1.65 (Mar 17, 2015)
- Added 'Connect' option (supported only on Windows Vista/7/8 or later), which tries to connect the selected wireless network.
New in WirelessNetView 1.61 (Feb 10, 2015)
- Added accelerator keys to the Update Rate menu.
New in WirelessNetView 1.60 (Dec 10, 2014)
- Fixed bug: WirelessNetView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
New in WirelessNetView 1.59 (Oct 20, 2014)
- Added 'Always On Top' option.
New in WirelessNetView 1.58 (Jun 24, 2014)
- Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key
New in WirelessNetView 1.57 (May 12, 2014)
- Added 'Force Negative RSSI' option. Some wireless adapters or drivers under Windows XP, randomly returns positive RSSI value instead of negative number. If you check this option, WirelessNetView will automatically turn the positive RSSI value to nagative in order to fix this problem.
New in WirelessNetView 1.56 (Apr 22, 2014)
- Fixed issue: On a wireless network with multiple access points, WirelessNetView displayed all access points as connected
New in WirelessNetView 1.55 (Mar 19, 2014)
- Added 'Advanced Options' window (F9), which allows you to choose the wireless network adapter that will be used to scan the wireless networks. This option is useful if you have multiple wireless network adapters.
New in WirelessNetView 1.50 (May 8, 2013)
- Added 'BSS Type' column - Infrastructure or Ad-Hoc.
New in WirelessNetView 1.46 (Mar 30, 2013)
- Fixed the flickering problem on Windows 7.
New in WirelessNetView 1.45 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
- Fixed bug: WirelessNetView failed to load the external MAC addresses file (oui.txt) when every line has 2 leading space characters.
New in WirelessNetView 1.43 (Nov 20, 2012)
- Added 'MAC Address Format' option: XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX , XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX , or XXXXXXXXXXXX
New in WirelessNetView 1.42 (Nov 5, 2012)
- Added 'Connected' column, which shows whether you are connected to this network
New in WirelessNetView 1.41 (Aug 1, 2012)
- The 'Maximum Speed' column now displays the correct speed of 802.11n networks (Only on Windows 7/Vista/2008)
- The 'PHY Types' columns now displays whether the network is 802.11g or 802.11n (Only on Windows 7/Vista/2008)
New in WirelessNetView 1.40 (Jan 3, 2012)
- Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of WirelessNetView will be invisible on start.
New in WirelessNetView 1.38 (Jun 16, 2011)
- Added '% Detection' column.
New in WirelessNetView 1.37 (Mar 28, 2011)
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
New in WirelessNetView 1.36 (Dec 7, 2010)
- Added 'Mark The Best Secured Network To Connect' option
New in WirelessNetView 1.35 (Nov 22, 2010)
- Added 'Network Security Filter' option (under the Options menu), which allows you to choose to display only secured networks, only unsecured networks, or both.
New in WirelessNetView 1.30 (Sep 6, 2010)
- Added 'Clear Networks List' option which allows you to clear the accumulated wirless networks list
New in WirelessNetView 1.27 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file
New in WirelessNetView 1.26 (Sep 24, 2009)
- Added /sort command-line option.
New in WirelessNetView 1.25 (Aug 24, 2009)
- Added 'Very High' update rate.
- Added command-line options to save the current detected wireless networks to text/html/csv/xml file.
New in WirelessNetView 1.22 (Jul 19, 2009)
- Fixed issue: When WirelessNetView window is hidden and there is an icon in the taskbar, running WirelessNetView again will open the existing instance of WirelessNetView, instead of creating another one.
New in WirelessNetView 1.21 (Jun 15, 2009)
- Added 'Maximum Speed' column.
New in WirelessNetView 1.20 (May 12, 2009)
- Added 'Restart Windows Wireless Service' (Ctrl+R) option. Sometimes, the wireless service of Windows XP stop working from unknown reason or it's stopped by another wireless network software. This option allows you to easily restart the sevice when something goes wrong.
- Fixed bug: When plugging a Wi-Fi USB adapter while WirelessNetView is already running, WirelessNetView couldn't detect any network, and you had the close and run it again in order to get it work.
New in WirelessNetView 1.16 (May 4, 2009)
- Fixed bug: WirelessNetView created XML with invalid characters
New in WirelessNetView 1.15 (May 2, 2009)
- Fixed issue: When WirelessNetView detect more than one network with the same SSID, it'll be dispalyed as a separated item.
New in WirelessNetView 1.12 (Dec 17, 2008)
- New option: Beep On New Network
New in WirelessNetView 1.11 (Sep 16, 2008)
- Version 1.11
- Added update rate (low/medium/high).
New in WirelessNetView 1.10 (Aug 12, 2008)
- Added new columns: MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, and Channel Number.
- Add 'Company Name' column that display the company name according to the MAC address (Requires to download an external file, see below).
- WirelessNetView now can also work without KB918997 update, although when this update is not installed, some of the column values won't be displayed.
New in WirelessNetView 1.01 (May 5, 2008)
- Added support for saving as comma-delimited text file.
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to WirelessNetView