XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > I checked mine by name, and got   
   >   
   > (!)   
   > Invalid BSSID format. Expected 12 hexadecimal digits (e.g.,   
   > AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF)   
   >   
   > (Probably what the B means?)   
      
   Hi John,   
      
   You said you checked yours "by name", where the query that was suggested   
   seems to be using the BSSID (which is in the format of "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF")   
       
      
   Try entering your BSSID (i.e., your MAC address of the access point),   
   which, on Windows, you can get using netsh using the syntax below:   
    C:\> netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid   
      
   There are some WPS databases, as I noted in my prior post, which can take   
   an SSID input, apparently, if that's what you really want to query on.   
       
      
   I haven't tried searching just for an SSID (since a BSSID is unique) and   
   when I just tested it with an SSID, the gateway timed out, so maybe there   
   isn't an SSID-only lookup, but that would be useful for those of us who   
   want to stay out of the rainbow hash tables (& butterfly hash tables).   
      
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