4. Scanning 6 GHz Wi-Fi Using Your Laptop

Ever found yourself with a need to scan a network but maybe you do not have the right hardware available?

It happens. A common scenario is that you want to scan the 6 GHz band but your company issued laptop has an older Wi-Fi card in it or it is so locked down that you really cannot do what you need to.

In this lab, we will use our laptops to learn how to connect the WLAN Pi Go as a sensor to some popular scanning tools which are available on Windows and Mac. So nevermind locked down corporate laptops - let's Go and get around that!

We are going to briefly look at setting up your WLAN Pi Go to work with 3 tools

• The popular WiFi Explorer tools for Mac and Windows

• The all new WinFi which is being revived and supports WLAN Pi devices