Let's face it-- there's SOOO much Wi-Fi everywhere these days, the
built-in Wi-Fi tools and free utilities that used to help us understand
the Wi-Fi environment just can't keep up anymore. Those tools don't help
you see how many access points are in the same network, nor how many
SSIDs a specific radio is broadcasting. For today's Wi-Fi environment,
you need a serious tool designed to show you exactly what the Wi-Fi
environment looks like, both physically and logically. It also needs to
handle everything from 802.11b legacy networks all the way up to
802.11ac, and it should be affordable enough that you don’t have to
spend hundreds of dollars just trying to get your Netflix to work
properly.
InSSIDer is a useful application designed for the IT technicians that
need to optimize the performance of a wireless network. The program
intends to help you identify the interferences that have a negative
impact on the signal strength. The main goal of the application is to
provide you with information about the nearby wireless networks such as
the name, the broadcast channel and the used security method. It can
also display the amplitude of each access point as a graph that enables
you to easily view the one that has the stronger signal. If the wireless
routers in your neighborhood use the same frequency range, there is a
good chance that the broadcasting channels overlap resulting in a lower
efficiency. This tool can detect the channels used by other networks in
order to manually select the one that does not overlap with the others.
You can select certain networks from the list in order to track their
RSSI over a longer time interval. This can help you identify the
networks that are closer to your location and have a greater impact on
your device performance.
The program includes a GPS feature that allows you to identify your
location and to display the geographical coordinates of the detected
networks. You can use the information collected by the GPS with other
applications by exporting them to KML files. When the program detects a
lot of networks you can easily select the information that you want to
view by using the filtering feature. With a few clicks you can display
only the devices from a certain vendor or the ones that use a certain
security type and frequency range.
Meet inSSIDer 4.0, designed for today's Wi-Fi environment.
View by ESSID (groups all radios with the same SSID together)
View by Radio (groups all SSIDs on the same radio together)
Signal strength over time graph of all radios with the same ESSID
Accurate list of conflicting APs (not exaggerated list of all ESSIDs)
Channel recommendation for each radio
Powerful filtering for quickly narrowing into the networks of interest
802.11ac support (only requires dual-band .11n adapter!)