Check Wireless Device

It may be under connected devices or attached devices or something similar.

Check wireless device.

This is going to be different depending on the make and model of your router. The results will appear in megabits per second mbps. You can find a list of connected devices in the web interface for your router. Smartphones show both cellular and wi fi connection status in the notification bar at the top of the screen.

Look for a list of devices. Momo productions getty images smartphones. Any device appearing on the blacklist is blocked and participating canadian. Check the status of your device in canada.

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. Right click the device and. 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. Search for device manager and click the top result to open the experience.

You will only be able to check the results for devices connected wirelessly to your network. 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. Using your device name and manufacturer information go online and search for your drivers download them and install them. This will show the device name and mac address for each device connected.

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. 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. On the right side of the notification bar look for the network status icon. Using the device hardware ids to find the wireless device online.

This will let you pinpoint any devices hogging bandwidth at that very moment. You can check the connection speed between your router or points and the wireless devices connected to those points.