There is a Way to Monitor Wifi

Besides the signal graphs you can also get your location at the click of a button from a mapping service such as Google. Monitoring a wireless network is a simple case of going into the Access Points tab and double clicking on the access point. Its icon will turn red to signify it has been selected and you will be shown the current signal strength graph.

The graph itself refreshes every 2 seconds by default and shows about 20 minutes worth of signal history. The refresh rate can be changed from the Options tab to 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 seconds. Right click to save the current graph as an image or start logging the history data to a text file. Homedale also supports a few command line switches so you can launch it to start monitoring and logging a specified network automatically. The Home version of Acrylic Wi-Fi is free for personal use and has enough to show a signal strength graph for monitoring or troubleshooting.

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One useful feature missing and only available in the paid Pro version is the ability to alter the timeline of the signal strength graph from the default of 5 minutes to 1, 3 or 10 minutes. On install and launch click Options 3 horizontal lines and choose Advanced Mode to make the graph full width and remove the useless Pro only network quality pane. To remove a wireless network from the graph click on the color block to the left of its name in the SSID list. The graph is colored into good and not so good strengths, highlighting an SSID will bold it for easier viewing, Microsoft.

Download Acrylic Wi-Fi Home. This tool has a few quite advanced options such as GPS support, live Google Earth tracking and a number of experimental features.

More standard functions include getting WiFi signal strength and information as well as the ability to audibly speak out the signal strength to you. Then click on a wireless network in the list to populate the graphs. The second is a bar graph pictured above which shows the signal strength history for around 11 minutes. Xirrus also requires you to fill in an online form to get the download link from the website.

Tried netspot inssider and homedale. It seems that homedale is the only one who will log signal stregth for long period of times indefinitely? Go to access points and double click your router go to access point graph right click and ask to log, you need to specify a file name. The log file is very simple and has the format yy-mm-dd hh: Homedale create a file named oui.

As parents, we should be aware as to what our kids are interested in learning. Web monitoring is vital, just going by what a teenage child tells you is a very bad idea. Yes, we can not stop them if they really want to learn something but we can make it difficult. The point I am trying to make is that the security and freedom do not have to be a black and white topic.

Kids need to be exposed to the threats of the world including the internet. However, it should be done with the level of maturity of the child. Thank you for the breath of fresh air reply to this article. It has been 4 years since your post. I cannot help but wonder how it is turning out for you. That is after all why we do not let our children play in road as toddlers…lol. Spock, who the hell do you think you are? You have no idea the context, situation, or reasons why people monitor their own networks. Maybe you should not make assumptions about things you know nothing about.

The advise contained above is completely foolish. It really upsets me every time someone makes the comment not to watch spy, monitor what sites others are going to, I have a 17 y old special needs child and should be monitored what might be harmless to some even most is not translated the same to a special needs person at any age. Or find out your partner is cheating.

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So much is available and very damaging if used incorrectly. So its the IP owners responsibility to know what is being used from your router. The only problem with tutorials such as these being on the net for parents, parents must also be aware that there are such tutorials for their kids to undo these blocks.

There are better ways to do this, such as merely blocking certain keywords without the spying on content. It also does not hurt to have the computer somewhere easily visible that you, as parents, can regularly walk by. I am the biggest idiot when it comes to computer anything I swear.. I have a very insecure boyfriend who is always spying on me and checking to see if im being unfaithful. Time and time again he will gain access to my emails or facebook and I finally think Ive figured out how hes doing it. My question is, if I go on facebook while connected to our wifi from my cell phone will he be able to access my facebook directly from the traffic history or does the history show any of my passwords I use.

Honestly, understanding computers is not for everyone. Just pay a professional to do it or find an alternative to spying. This is rather ineffective to be honest. Not only have to watch for router tampering, proxies, but could just connect to an open router. Netgear Router stats and logs are so basic they are rubbish! What Netgear should do is provide a historical graph of network usage per device so we can see how much traffic and when each connected device uses. At the moment our internet in the office is slow and I have difficulty knowing what machine or person is using it.

Before I start I would like to say that im turning 18 within the month and I only want access to sports, games, and youtube. Hi, im looking to get around the netgear live parental controls that my parents have set up. However, I would like to do it in a way that would allow me access the internet without their knowledge. They use the account frequently, but would never check the logs. I have tried to find passwords throughout their computers and came up with nothing.

I also tried to put in my computers ip adress into the browser window and was propted for a username and password once again. If you want to post regarding anything in the nature of listen to your parents, please save your breath. If your turning eighteen, get a job, sign your own internet service contract and pay for it yourself. Then you can be without your parents snooping. Is there a way to block the undesirable according to me, the mom parts of Facebook? Or do I have to block the whole site? Better to whitelist the sites your kids can visit vs. I can get to the weblog page no problem, but how can you decipher the log into an actual website?

Here is an example of what I am looking at. I laugh at you over protective parents. I have watched porn for many years and i have not changed or been screwed up from it. I turned out fine and my one friend who drinks a lot and does drugs had over protective parents. Give your child some freedom. All your family would have to do is hard reset their router something a trained monkey with a paper clip can do and your megalomania would come to an end.

Or call an IT professional, which is more likely. I have a gmail account I am trying to get logs sent to and it is not working. Parents, I am dissapointed. From what I observed, the router log mostly contains entries from outside, which happens a lot during computer games. I even created a web app in hoping to monitor the router activities mainly to monitor kids Internet activity based on the router logs, but in the end to find out the log is incomplete.

Is there a way to make the log more complete? Hi, I just used this to hack my parents account! I simply logs the ip addresses which is not the same thing. There are legitimate sites that can be visited where my teen can still get into trouble. What my main interest is what data is being exchanged with host IP addresses. Is it an innocent chat with one of her friend or is the pedophile across town trying to set up a meeting at the mall. Do you see the important difference. I have been scouring the web looking for a solution but all I can find is network sniffers that record everything in a sort of cryptic raw format and you have to be really savy to interpret the data and what it means.

I want a software solution the just watches and records All network traffic to certain devices in the home and will recreate the webpage visited, the message exchange and the photo downloaded. I think any parent would pay for such a valuable tool.

Are there such tools available.? Hi — I use a d-link U router. It is not as user friendly as the netgear… any ideas on how I can track sites visited on this router? Hi… I have a netgear MBR I can see the logs but the Allowed entries are not shown at all. I have tried finding out why this is the case and contacted Netgear to no avail.

I cannot monitor what is typed in the URL of the computers so it is hard to see what needs to be blocked. Does anyone have any advice in how to get the router to register the allowed sites?