BrettVerney / WinWifiSupport

A simple Microsoft Windows PowerShell script to determine a Wi-Fi adaptor's key capabilities.

WinWifiSupport

A simple Windows PowerShell script to determine a Wi-Fi adaptor's key capabilities

Author: Brett Verney
Version: v1.1 | 11-05-2021

Background

There are a number of key technologies that, if supported by a Wi-Fi adaptor may be explicitly enabled on the supporting Wi-Fi infrastructure. By filtering through the netsh wlan show command on a Windows machine, we can find the capabilities of the Wireless adaptor. This script simply finds the data that we need, and applies a little formatting to present it a little nicer.

Usage

If not already set, enable PowerShell to run scripts by bypassing the default execution policy for the current user:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Alternatively, you can bypass the execution policy for the current PowerShell session only:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force

Execute the script:
.\WinWifiSupport.ps1

Output

You should see something similar to this:

Special Thanks

Felipe Binotto for helping me understand hashtables.