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NetSpot is a simple and accessible wireless survey tool for Mac users, which allows collecting, visualizing and analyzing Wi-Fi data using any MacBook.
NetSpot can visualize your wireless network by building a visual Wi-Fi map. It will let you see dead zones without coverage and place hotspots (Access Points) correctly. Using the visualized map of collected wireless data you will also see channels' load and will be able to decide how to optimize your Wi-Fi site better.
NetSpot is a powerful analyzer of Wi-Fi coverage. Just in a couple of clicks you can load your
NetSpot can visualize your wireless network by building a visual Wi-Fi map. It will let you see dead zones without coverage and place hotspots (Access Points) correctly. Using the visualized map of collected wireless data you will also see channels' load and will be able to decide how to optimize your Wi-Fi site better.
NetSpot is a powerful analyzer of Wi-Fi coverage. Just in a couple of clicks you can load your
What's New
Version 1.3.335:
- There's no need to specify survey borders any longer: they are calculated automatically based on sampling points and their positions on the map
- NetSpot ignores country settings and scans all available wireless frequencies: 5GHz SSID's are no longer omitted, slightly longer scanning in every sampling point
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Dev Preview releases compatibility
- Asynchronous updates of the displayed map layers (sampling points, markers, labels)
- Support for larger area maps and surveys with high numbers of located wireless networks (100+), no freezing when loading such projects
- Corner values are now recalculated only once and the algorithm works faster
- Corrected calculation canceling, prevents freezing
- White scaling rulers and brightened markers on them
- NetSpot now differentiates an incorrect AP name and the name of a 802.1x encryption profile, this prevents app crashing in rare cases
- Improved UNDO in drawing mode
- Improved triangulation algorithm: fixes freezing on large (outdoor) surveys when sampling points are REALLY CLOSE to each other (less than a meter)
- Overlay scrolls
- Updated list of Wi-Fi hardware developers: better vendor matching during decoding of BSSIDs
- Green circles now appear immediately after the first sampling points are placed on the map: helps choose a better place for the next sample
- No way to create a new zone while scanning
- Possible error that could lead to NetSpot crashing due to calling inexistent method
- Drawing mode minor errors when switching tools
- Now NetSpot doesn't forget to offer saving of current project if user opens another existing project
- Minor UI changes and cosmetics
- Fixed a few memory leaks
- Fit to view zooming mode fixes
- Some issues fixed when switching between scanning modes (Resume/Stop)
Version 1.3.335:
- There's no need to specify survey borders any longer: they are calculated automatically based on sampling points and their positions on the map
- NetSpot ignores country settings and scans all available wireless frequencies: 5GHz SSID's are no longer omitted, slightly longer scanning in every sampling point
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Dev Preview releases compatibility more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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NetSpot is a simple and accessible wireless survey tool for Mac users, which allows collecting, visualizing and analyzing Wi-Fi data using any MacBook.
NetSpot can visualize your wireless network by building a visual Wi-Fi map. It will let you see dead zones without coverage and place hotspots (Access Points) correctly. Using the visualized map of collected wireless data you will also see channels' load and will be able to decide how to optimize your Wi-Fi site better.
NetSpot is a powerful analyzer of Wi-Fi coverage. Just in a couple of clicks you can load your area map, point your location on the map and NetSpot starts collecting Wi-Fi data around you. It will gather all the needed information for radio signal leakages analyzing, noise sources discovering, access points effective location, etc.
You can also use NetSpot as a powerful wireless network planning tool. Load a map, collect wireless site survey data, build a heatmap of your network and you are ready to build the optimal configuration of a new Wi-Fi network and wise radio channels usage with minimal signal to noise ratio.
NetSpot can visualize your wireless network by building a visual Wi-Fi map. It will let you see dead zones without coverage and place hotspots (Access Points) correctly. Using the visualized map of collected wireless data you will also see channels' load and will be able to decide how to optimize your Wi-Fi site better.
NetSpot is a powerful analyzer of Wi-Fi coverage. Just in a couple of clicks you can load your area map, point your location on the map and NetSpot starts collecting Wi-Fi data around you. It will gather all the needed information for radio signal leakages analyzing, noise sources discovering, access points effective location, etc.
You can also use NetSpot as a powerful wireless network planning tool. Load a map, collect wireless site survey data, build a heatmap of your network and you are ready to build the optimal configuration of a new Wi-Fi network and wise radio channels usage with minimal signal to noise ratio.
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Macaccro reviewed on 06 May 2012
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Bowlerboy_jmb reviewed on 30 Mar 2012
Of course, I had the right devices: I just did not configure them correctly.
NetSpot pointed that out to me in a more dramatic fashion that another useful tool within this category, namely, AirRadar, which I also recommend. AirRadar scans all of the wireless networks within its earshot and can produce statistics along with a graph of the signal strength and noise. That is useful information to be sure. AirRadar creates its profile depending on the physical location of your laptop. If you physically move your laptop, your stats and graph will change.
NetSpot appears to use of that same snapshotting of a laptop's location in comparison to a base station, but it goes one step further than AirRadar (which is designed for a different purpose) in the sense that, when you create your mapping of your network, you physically carry your laptop from point to point and you direct NetSpot to take a survey of the signal strength of your network at that particular point. When you are all done carrying your laptop to your various locations, you stop the scanning, and NetSpot displays a color-coded map, overlaid on the diagram you previously drew of your home of office layout, to show you the relative strength of the network signal to each and every spot on your survey. That's cool!
The overall application would benefit from the addition of some basic instructions or a short instructional video to step you through things, so, if you're like me, you might find yourself a little lost in the beginning. But once you figure out how the app works, it's pretty easy to get your network mapping done.
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Polocanada reviewed on 10 Nov 2011
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Fabio Milocco reviewed on 02 Nov 2011
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