{"id":3259,"date":"2007-10-30T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T07:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/use-your-pocket-pc-to-find-wireless-hotspots\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:41:50","slug":"use-your-pocket-pc-to-find-wireless-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-your-pocket-pc-to-find-wireless-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"Use your Pocket PC to find wireless hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3260\" title=\"Hotspot symbol\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/10\/sniffit-logo.png\" alt=\"Hotspot symbol\" align=\"right\" \/>Have you ever seen those people wandering the streets with their laptops in the desperate search for an open wireless network. Apart from looking like a tightwad, you also run the risk of having your equipment stolen or damaged by doing so. A better way is to use your Pocket PC to sniff-out WiFi hotspots. <a href=\"http:\/\/sniffi.en.softonic.com\">Sniffi<\/a> is a small application that allows you to literally &#8216;sniff-out&#8217; WiFi hotspots in your neighbourhood or working area. Sniffi is an advanced WiFi networks manager which may be used to search for hotspots, as a connection manager or as a network parameter monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The application works in a very similar way to Windows WiFi network manager. The list of available networks is clearly displayed together with their ID, protection status and signal strength. There&#8217;s a day\/night color profile, full-screen switch and you can switch it from vertical to horizontal mode easily. You can even perform pings on available networks and view TCP\/IP stats for each one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen those people wandering the streets with their laptops in the desperate search for an open wireless network. Apart from looking like a tightwad, you also run the risk of having your equipment stolen or damaged by doing so. A better way is to use your Pocket PC to sniff-out WiFi hotspots. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-your-pocket-pc-to-find-wireless-hotspots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use your Pocket PC to find wireless hotspots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336827,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/336827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}