The Site Monitor allows you to monitor available wireless networks, providing information on each network it sees and allowing you to update this information either manually or at regular intervals. When you click on the Site Monitor tab, the following window appears:
After the utility scans for wireless networks, it lists the networks it has found in the Visible Networks window. You can sort the list by any of the information it displays by clicking on the name of the appropriate column in the list.
When you first display the Site Monitor menu, the SSID, BSSID, and Supported Rate of the network to which you are connected appear in the Selected Network section of this menu. Selecting another network from the list of visible networks displayed its information in this section.
You can force the utility to perform a scan by clicking on the Refresh button. To cause the utility to scan at regular intervals, click the check box next to the Auto Refresh every: field and choose an interval for the scan from the list displayed by clicking the down arrow in the field to the right. You can also limit the scan to ad-hoc networks by clicking the check box next to the Computer-to-computer (ad-hoc) network only field.
You can obtain more information on the visible networks by clicking the Advanced Monitor... button, which displays the following window:
With this screen displayed, the utility continuously montors the available networks and updates the list in this window if you clicked the Auto Refresh button in the Site Monitor menu. You can start or stop monitoring your site by clicking on the first button to the left at the bottom of this screen.
To capture this information in a file, click the Start Logging button, give a name for your log file in the Save As window displayed, and click the Save button. Click this button again to stop logging.
To close the Advanced Site Monitor (and the log file, if you started logging), click the Close button.
At the bottom of the Site Monitor menu are three buttons. Clicking the OK button applies any changes you made in this or any of the other menus of the Configuration Utility and closes the utility. Clicking the Cancel button cancels any changes you made since you last clicked the Apply but does not close the utility. Clicking the Apply button saves any changes you made in this or any of the other menus of the utility and leaves the utility open.