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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)

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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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Try viewing the Network Map. Open the Control Panel (not PC settings) and go to Network and Sharing Center. Then you should find in the upper right corner a link to "See full map". This will work if your other devices are "discoverable" by Windows, which some may not be.

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  • Yeah, I was hoping that I would have some way to see them via netsh or something, but I guess I'm going to have to make a program to have them phone home when they connect since they don't seem to be discoverable.
    – RangerMauve
    Jan 4, 2014 at 4:53

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