Windows – Get list of devices on windows ad hoc network

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I was wondering if there was a command to get a list of all the devices connected to an ad-hoc network that I host from my laptop.

This far I've just been looking up the device ip with ipconfig or similar from the device itself, but I want to connect a device which I can only access through SSH for a presentation I'm making.

Is there a command or utility for seeing what devices are connected to my ad-hoc netowork?

(I'm on Windows 8)

Best Answer

After some more searching I found that I could use arp -a to list all the known devices through different network connections that I had.

Here's how it worked:

  • Start the hostednetwork on Windows through netsh wlan start hostednetwork
  • Find out what your IP address is through ipconfig or through the network and sharing center
  • Type arp -a to get a list of all your connections and known devices
  • Find the interface with the IP you found earlier
  • Now you'll have a list of known devices on that interface, which should be good enough.
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