Capture Wireless Frames More Accurately than Wireshark

When you try to do a wireless packet capture for your protocol analysis / troubleshooting purposes using Wireshark on your Microsoft Windows laptop, you will notice that most important frames / packets (802.11 frames & EAP packets) are missed. So here is a free tool for Windows to do your wireless captures. It is called Microsoft Network Monitor. This is actually a Microsoft made protocol analysis tool like Wireshark. You can do a lot more with it..

Please go to the link below.. Or just search Microsoft Network Monitor on Microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4865

This is built for Windows 7, but it works in Windows 8 & 10 too.

Download your version to match the CPU architecture and install it.
Restart or Logoff your PC and Login again..
Run the App..

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You can select the interface you need to capture. You can see that this is not only for wireless, but also for wired interfaces.

Then click on New Capture and Start..