Who's using your wireless network

Is there a program or anyway to show who's using a wireless network? Like a feature that shows a list of computers that are on the wireless network?
thx

Hi!
Usually, your router comes with a log file somewhere which you can use to look up the connections made. My DLink614+ uses this list to show the MAC addresses currently connected. My syslog makes references to attempts made. However all you can see is MAC addresses...
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