Summary

In this lab, I learned how to find out certain things about a wireless network in Windows.

New things I learned

• In this lab, I learned about different aspects of my wireless network and my Wireless card in my laptop.
• I learned things such as the MAC address of my default gateway, the authentication type of the network I am connected to, and the 802.11 version of my wireless card.
• I also found out about the receive and transmit rates of my wireless card.

Problems/Issues

• For this lab, I didn’t run into any problems. It was a straightforward lab, and I had no issues. There was no troubleshooting necessary.

Other useful information

• For this lab, there was a command that I used that I found very useful. The command that I used was Netsh WLAN show interfaces
• That command displays the following for the wireless interface:
  • Name
  • Description
  • GUID
  • Physical Address
  • State
  • SSID
  • BSSID
  • Network Type
  • Radio Type
  • Authentication
  • Cypher
  • Connection Mode
  • Channel
  • Receive Rate
  • Transmit Rate
  • Signal
  • Profile