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How to get information about Wi-Fi clients?

Information on devices connected via Wi-Fi can be viewed in the web interface on the Client Lists page.

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In this table, you can get the following information (using the third device on the list as an example):

  • Network name of the connected device (HUAWEI-MatePad);

  • MAC address (f6:48:6c:6a:9a:c5);

  • The IP address assigned to the connected device (192.168.1.54);

  • Network segment to which the device is connected (Home segment / Wi-Fi 5 GHz);

  • Signal strength in relative value (as a graphical scale);

  • Current channel speed of the connection (433 Mbit/s);

  • Network Security Protocol (WPA2 / WPA2-PSK);

  • Connection standard (11ac — IEEE 802.11ac);

  • Wi-Fi module configuration (1x1 / 1Tx1R);

  • Width of the channel used (80 MHz).

If you click on a client entry in the list, a device card with additional information will open:

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Here, the system displays the client's online time (connection time) and the amount of data sent and received.

Additional and more detailed information is available via the router's command-line interface (CLI). To get it, run the command:

(config)> show associations
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For example:

(config)> show associations

          station:
                  mac: f6:48:6c:6a:9a:c5   (MAC address)
                   ap: WifiMaster1/AccessPoint0   (access point to which the client is connected *)
                  psm: yes
        authenticated: yes
               txrate: 433   (channel rate)
               uptime: 21265   (connection time in seconds)
              txbytes: 21420522
              rxbytes: 183272493
                   ht: 80   (channel width)
                 mode: 11ac   (Wi-Fi standard; IEEE 802.11ac)
                   gi: 400   (guard interval)
                 rssi: -57   (a measure of the received signal strength **)
                  mcs: 9   (modulation index and coding scheme)
                 txss: 1   (spatial stream)
                  ebf: yes   (explicit Beamforming, eBF)
                dl-mu: yes   (DL MU-MIMO)

                  _11: k   (Wi-Fi roaming protocols 802.11k/r/v)

                  _11: r

                  _11: v

             security: wpa2-psk   (Wi-Fi protection; WPA2-PSK)

(config)>

* — WifiMaster0/AccessPoint0 is the interface name of the 2.4GHz network, WifiMaster0/AccessPoint1 is the interface name of the 2.4GHz guest network and WifiMaster1/AccessPoint0 is the interface name of the 5GHz network;

** — signal strength; a measure of the received signal strength; the higher the number, or the less negative it is, the stronger the signal; for more information, see How to check the signal strength and wireless coverage?

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