
Atheros Client Utility is a legacy Windows application for managing Wi‑Fi connections on PCs equipped with Atheros wireless adapters. It serves as an alternative to Windows’ built‑in wireless manager, enabling users to scan for networks, create and prioritize connection profiles, and configure security standards such as WEP, WPA/WPA2‑Personal, and WPA/WPA2‑Enterprise with 802.1X authentication. The utility provides real‑time status and diagnostics—including signal strength, link quality, and throughput—and offers advanced options like roaming aggressiveness, power‑saving modes, transmit power control, and radio on/off. It’s especially useful for environments that require preconfigured profiles or enterprise authentication, though on modern versions of Windows the native Wi‑Fi tools typically provide similar capabilities.
Atheros Client Utility is developed by Atheros Communications, Inc. and is used by 34 users of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 5.2, 7.0, 7.7, 8.0 and 10.0. The names of program executable files are ACU.exe, AegisI5.exe, athdiag.exe, AWiCMgr.exe and DS_Dual2(US).exe.
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