FAQs

We recommend that you activate Capsa for WiFi Beta as soon as you complete installation. After you have installed Capsa for WiFi Beta, please follow the steps:

Online Activation

If you have access to the Internet, you are recommended to use online activation.

1. Copy the Serial Number.
2. Run Capsa for WiFi, paste the Serial Number as instruction below.

   

3. Click Next all the way.
4. Activation is done.

Offline Activation

If you don't have access to the Internet, you can also use our offline activation service as well. But it takes some time.

1. Copy the Serial Number.
2. Run the program, paste the Serial Number and choose Activation Offline (figure below), click Next.

   

3. Click the link to get your Activation Code.

   

4. On the webpage, click Get Activate Key button to generate Activation code.

   

5. Copy and paste Activation Code.

   

6. Click Next all the way.
7. Activation is done.

Having problem with activation

If you still have any problem on your way to activate the program, please contact

For encrypted wireless networks, Capsa for WiFi need the encryption key to decode the data. To enter encryption key, please double-click on you selected AP SSID and enter encryption keys.

A wireless card communicates only in one channel at a time. Capsa for WiFi is able to analyze traffic from multi-APs running on the same channel. If you want to analyze traffics on two different channels, please add the second wireless card and select it for another analysis project for second radio channel.

Please first check whether you are analyzing the correct AP. The most possible reason would be Capsa for WiFi fails to decode the packets. You need to restart your wireless router (AP) and make sure that Capsa for WiFi has captured all transferring data from the beginning of the 4-way handshake packets.

Capsa for WiFi supports the latest NDIS 6.0 library wireless cards. Theoretically, all wireless cards working on Windows Vista and Windows 7 will work with Capsa for WiFi. So here is a list of all the wireless cards that compatible with Windows 7, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/Browse.aspx?type=Hardware&category=Networking&subcategory=Wireless%20Network%20Cards&os=64-bit

No, you have to enter the pre-defined encryption key for the encrypted wireless network, Capsa for WiFi use the same key to decrypt captured wireless packets. If you failed to enter a valid encryption key, Capsa for WiFi will fail to decode all the captured packets.

Capsa for WiFi will work on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Since this is the Beta version of a new product, we are glad to hear your feedback and guide you how to use this program via the following ways:

Support Email: support@colasoft.com
Support Forum: http://www.packetech.com/forumdisplay.php?23-Capsa-for-WiFi

That's right. When you click the start button on the Start Page to initiate an analysis, your machine will be cut off from the Internet because the wireless card will be suspended in the so-called promiscuous mode and only listens traffic from the selected AP.

And when you close the application, it automatically brings connection back. So if you need internet access while analyzing wireless traffic, you have to add one more wireless card.