How can someone get the BSSID of a router without connecting to it?

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user1973385 picture user1973385 · Dec 15, 2013 · Viewed 62.6k times · Source

  1. How can someone get the BSSID of a router without connecting to it in order to differentiate between duplicate SSIDs?

  2. Does a router broadcast the BSSID?

Answer

hardikudeshi picture hardikudeshi · Mar 1, 2014

Applying the command

netsh wlan show all

in windows would show details of all the routers including the BSSID in your wireless range, even though you might not have been connected to the router.

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