With a computer/laptop that has the ability to share a Wi-Fi connection all you have to do is create a Wi-Fi hotspot from your computer and connect your Roku or Apple TV device to this Wi-Fi.īe aware that Internet Sharing works for any computer running OS X Lion (10.6) or later. Below are instructions for doing it over Wi-Fi.
There are two ways to connect your Roku device to your computer to receive logs in Wireshark – through Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Tip: you can always use filter in Wireshark to just display the packets you want to see.Wireshark, a network analysis tool, captures packets in real-time and displays them in a human-readable format.ĭownload and install Wireshark for Windows or macOS from the official website. You should use your own screenshot.ĭo you see any parallel connections your browser makes? If so, how many can you see in your screenshot? Again, use Wireshark to capture the traffic while you open up the page.Įxample screenshot below. Now, we will open a webpage with embeded objects (e.g., cnn.com which has a lot of images/videos embeded) in a browser. Example screenshot below.ĭescribe the TCP packets that you see, i.e., how each packet corresponds to TCP handshake, data transfer and closing connection steps. After the curl/wget is done, stop the capture in Wireshark. Warning: keep your other network activities to the minimum for a better experience, e.g., avoid streaming Netflix when capturing in Wireshark.
Then you should be able to see packets flowing! Click the red square button on top to stop the capture. On the left side, select one (or more) interfaces that you want to capture from, then click “Start”. If you run into any problems, you can refer to for more detailed help. On Mac and Linux, you can also install from command line (homebrew/macports, yum install, apt-get install). You can find installation instructions here: We will use Wireshark, a network packet capture tool, to look at TCP packets when grabbing a webpage.
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