Gateway – The address of the device that is responsible for routing all of the network traffic you send over the WiFi connection.

DNS server – The address of the server your computer is using to translate Internet addresses from text to numeric format and back. For example, your browser might use the DNS server to convert sprint.com to 206.159.101.241.

DHCP server – The address of the server that assigned your computer’s network configuration for the current wireless connection.

WINS server – The address of the server (if any) that your computer is using to find the names of computers on a Windows network.

Activity – The number of packets of data that your computer has sent and received over the WiFi connection since it was established.

Device Tab

The Device tab contains information about your current WiFi device (if any).

Vendor description – The name of your WiFi device, as reported by its onboard operating software.

MAC address – The Hardware Address of the device. MAC (Media Access Control) addresses are unique number sequences assigned by the device’s manufacturer and usually cannot be altered. These addresses are used for transferring data by hardware- level protocols such as Ethernet and 802.11 (WiFi). Higher level protocols such as the TCP/IP Protocol Suite used by the Internet have their own addressing schemes, but still rely on the hardware-level protocol for the transfer of data between individual nodes on a network.

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