Fingbox monitors your network for security & troubleshooting (update)

Fingbox
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Fing is a free smartphone app (iOS & Android) that lets you keep an eye on what’s happening on your WiFi network. It’s been around since 2009. Here’s a LifeHacker review from 2014:

“Fing Shows You All the Devices Connected to Your Network”
https://lifehacker.com/fing-shows-you-all-the-devices-connected-to-your-networ-1655438240

Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlook.android.fing&hl=en

App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/fing-network-scanner/id430921107?mt=8

Now Fing has been imbedded into a piece of hardware that can monitor your network 24/7, rather than whenever you think to take a look on you phone.



Because it’s permanently attached to your network, it can do a few things that aren’t practical with your phone, such as monitor 24/7, & produce logs.

Fingbox is an Indiegogo project. Funding has closed (over $US544,000 raised), so the backer project price is no longer available, but you can pre-order at the MSRP.

(Pssst – check out the “super secret discount”, which you can access in the free app.)

Update 10 April 2017 – “Super secret discount”, has been downgraded to, “secret discount” :(

Manufacturer’s web site
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