I have the dubiious honor of having a still unsecured 802.11b/g network in our house, because a few of our less-well-designed wireless tools (*cough* Palm PDA *cough*) can't deal with a password. Well, the number of other wireles networks around our house has grown from 1 to 5 in the last month or so, so I figured it was time to check who was surfing on our network to see if it was time to start securing it regularly. Well, it turns out the Apple Airport Utility has no such tool. They trust if you want to know who is on your network, you can ask around and people will fess up. Sigh. The cheapo linksys router I bought to use when travelling has such a tool, so why not Apple's much-touted Airport line of wireless networking hardware?!
Well, it turns out they do, actually. It is buried deep in the Airport Suport docs, but if you click here you can download a tool that will monitor your network. Use the Airport Management Utility, and click on the MONITOR tab to see. It stil ain't perfect - it just gives you MAC (as in network, not as in Macintosh) addresses, instead of computer names - but you expect to see 1 connection and you see 7, you can be pretty sure someone else is stealing your bandwidth.
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