wavemon is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is Homedale, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to wavemon and five of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to wavemon are Kismet, ntop, Wifi Network Testing and darkstat.
With Homedale you can search for Wi-Fi / WLAN Access Points and monitor their signal strength. Use the detected access points with Google Geolocation and Mozilla Location Service to locate yourself.
![See an overview of all available access points with their signal strength, encryption [WEP/WPA/WPA2], speed and channel.](https://img.alternativeto.net/s/618x394/avif/8f3b1d9c-e2be-e311-8c57-002590a05f5f_2_full.png)
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic.
NTop is a hybrid layer 2 / layer 3 network monitor, that is by default it uses the layer 2 Media Access Control (MAC) addresses AND the layer 3 tcp/ip addresses. ntop is capable of associating the two, so that ip and non-ip traffic (e.g.
Scan your wifi network and obtain troubleshooting details, with extreme granularity.
darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic, calculates statistics and serves them to a web browser.
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