Who Needs Access Connections?

In addition to other features, one of the beauties of Access Connections is the sheer amount of information it reports with regard to nearby wireless networks. Since I try to keep unnecessary bloat off my machine, I have forgone Access Connections and have stuck with what’s built into Windows—but I always found myself missing the detailed wireless information provided by Access Connections. Today this is no longer the case though as I just found out about a beautiful Vista command that spits out a lovely amount of technical detail on nearby wireless connections—and it is “netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid.” For the technically inclined, give it a try.

Thank you Microsoft.

 

cool
the list was so long, half the networks got lost when the default buffer ran out in the command prompt
wish it came with a gui

 

Yeah, wish it is GUI.

Dam you Microsoft.

Ps. Thanks for command.

 

That is some good info. Personally I will stick with access connections. I tried having windows manage my wireless connections and it did a horrible job. When I would move to a new network it would go through several cycles of connect and disconnect before it finally had a good connection. With access connections its quick and easy.

 

That's a good command. I dropped it into notepad, added a pause on the next line and saved as a .bat batch file. Makes it pretty easy, thanks!