Check Wireless Device

Right click the device and.

Check wireless device.

Search for device manager and click the top result to open the experience. Using the device hardware ids to find the wireless device online. However before you do that make sure to check whether it s actually a stranger feeding off your wifi or one of your devices that you simply didn t recognize. This will let you pinpoint any devices hogging bandwidth at that very moment.

This is going to be different depending on the make and model of your router. Router firmwares like dd wrt offer the ability to see live bandwidth usage and you can check which devices are currently using the most data. Smartphones show both cellular and wi fi connection status in the notification bar at the top of the screen. On the right side of the notification bar look for the network status icon.

Anytime a gsm hspa or lte wireless device is reported as lost or stolen to a participating canadian wireless service provider that device s unique imei number is added to a shared national blacklist the blacklist. The results will appear in megabits per second mbps. It may be under connected devices or attached devices or something similar. Check the status of your device in canada.

Any device appearing on the blacklist is blocked and participating canadian. Using your device name and manufacturer information go online and search for your drivers download them and install them. Monitoring data usage over an extended period of time is harder. You can find a list of connected devices in the web interface for your router.

Expand the branch for the device that you want to check the driver version. Look for a list of devices. If the vertical bars in this icon are greyed out the signal is weak and this results in a low quality connection as the number of bars increases the signal gets. A good way to do this is to compare the device s mac address from the list to the mac addresses of the devices you own that could be connected to your wireless network.

This will show the device name and mac address for each device connected. You can check the connection speed between your router or points and the wireless devices connected to those points.