Get Signal Strenghts in Windows Vista

[Maarten Weyn]

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the Signal Strenghts of the access points around your
laptop in windows vista.
In XP it can be done talking to WMI, but this doesn't work in vista.

regards

Maarten Weyn

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Hi all,

Is there a way to get the Signal Strenghts of the access points around your laptop in
windows vista.
In XP it can be done talking to WMI, but this doesn't work in vista.

regards

Maarten Weyn

If it doesn't work in Vista it means that the "Wireless Network Interface" driver doesn't
expose this to WMI, contact your system vendor to see whether such driver is available.

Willy.

 

[Maarten Weyn]

Thx

Is there an other way to get the wifi info in vista?

regards

Maarten

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Thx

Is there an other way to get the wifi info in vista?

regards

Yes, there is the "Native WiFi API" for XP SP2 and Vista. This API is a C style API, please
download the SDK and start reading the docs. There are also a number of samples included
with the sdk, illustrating the usage of these API's using C++ .

Willy.