Easy WiFi Connections

A1) Easy WIFI Radar
Easy WiFi Radar helps you to find and connect to free wireless access points with a single mouseclick. Its WiFi for Dummies. It will connect to open hotspots automatically and shows you exactly what it is doing in a cool animated radar screen.

Works on Windows XP and Windows Mobile, not on Vista.

If youve ever tried to use Windows XP's built-in connection manager, you know what a hassle it can be to quickly check your mail or browse the web on the go. You need to browse through a list of access points, find one that you can connect to, manually try to connect to it, confirm the connection and then wait. Even if it says thats it connected, often it doesn't open a webpage or you mail will stall.

When connected - This feature is only available in the paid version, not in the free version. It allows you to set the webpage that Easy WiFi radar opens when it finds and connects succesfully to an access point. If you need this feature, you can buy a version of Easy WiFi Radar that allows that. For example, you can set it to connect to your webmail when it finds a free wifi connection. Also paid version NEW Easy WiFi Radar Pro

* Shows more free hotspots in your area on an interactive map

* Lets you set your own landing page (no more ads)

* Automatically gets your email when connected

* Allows you to set a home or office WEP-key

Free Version at Homepage
Manual Easy WiFi Radar
Easy WiFi Radar Pro 1.0.0
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A2) WiFi Hopper
A WLAN utility that combines the features of a Network Discovery and Site Survey tool with a Connection Manager. WiFi Hopper includes a NDIS driver to ensure that it has the exclusive access it needs to manage the wireless cards. Irrespective or the state of other wireless network management programs, WiFi Hopper always has the proper access rights to the wireless hardware device. All information displayed on WiFi Hopper is as current as it gets!

WiFi Hopper automatically connects to open wireless networks based on present and past signal strengths! As soon as a wireless network becomes unavailable or its signal strength starts dropping rapidly, WiFi Hopper automatically jumps to the next available network for you!

Requirements:

Windows 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista

· Wireless Networking Device is required for any scanning or connectivity operation.
· Wireless Device must have drivers that support WPA to connect to WPA-PSK networks.
· Wireless Device must have drivers that support WPA2 to connect to WPA2-PSK networks.
· Wireless Device must support 802.11a to scan for or connect to 802.11a based networks.
· GPS support requires a GPS device capable of providing NMEA 0183 sentences on a serial port.

Developer Page
Wifi Hopper1.2 download
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B1) PassMark WirelessMon - Wireless 802.11 WiFi monitoring software

WirelessMon can log the information collected into a file, provides comprehensive graphing of signal level and real time IP and 802.11 WiFi statistics.

WirelessMon is an application that will allow you to monitor the status of wireless WiFi adapter(s) and gather important information about nearby wireless access points and hot spots in real time.

Developer Page


* Verify 802.11 network configuration is correct.
* Test WiFi hardware and device drivers are functioning correctly.
* Check signal levels from your local WiFi network and nearby networks.
* Help locate sources of interference to your network.
* Scan for hot spots in your local area (wardriving)
* Create signal strength maps of an area
* GPS support for logging and mapping signal strength
* Correctly locate your wireless antenna (especially important for directional antennas).
* Verify the security settings for local access points.
* Measure network speed & throughput and view available data rates.
* Help check Wifi network coverage and range


Portable WirelessMon Pro v3.0 Build 1002

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