Visibility at this level is essential when it comes to viewing device and application performance, traffic, and configuration details allowing administrators to troubleshoot availability issues. Along those same lines, Network Performance Monitor leverages cross-stack network data correlation to accelerate the identification of root cause through a drag-and-drop feature. By simply aligning network performance metrics along a common timeline, IT administrators gain immediate visual correlation across all network data.
SolarWinds Wi-Fi monitoring software further streamlines the process by automatically discovering wireless access points and controllers as wireless devices. This allows the software to better categorize the wireless devices currently available in your network.
You can then monitor and manage these wireless devices alongside your wired devices via comprehensive system of alerts, reports, and top 10 lists of your infrastructure. This powerful and affordable network monitoring software empowers IT technicians to detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance problems and outages—quickly and efficiently.
Network Performance Monitor provides in-depth insight into the network, identifying the root source of a network issue to allow for faster resolution times. The platform makes it easier to automatically discover wireless access points and controllers, construct wireless heat maps, and report on a host of details, including IP address and device type.
IT technicians can even periodically poll thin and autonomous wireless access points, controllers, and connected devices. These alerts are displayed via a customizable, web-based dashboard administrators can access anywhere, at any time.
The dashboard empowers IT technicians to drill down into the wireless node in critical status and view a vast array of device details, including packet loss, average response time, and current node status.
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You can also see quickly which channels are overloaded and which still have capacity for handling a larger amount of traffic. For example, Wi-Fi routers have a set number of channels on which they can broadcast, and a Wi-Fi monitoring tool can look at all of the channels and then help you to select which channel has the lightest load for optimizing performance. This can stop issues with congestion. There are a huge number of Wi-Fi monitoring tools on the market, with a wide variety of features and approaches to tackling this issue.
Many of these tools have free trials available, which can help you to narrow down which Wi-Fi network monitor works best in your circumstances. NPM has several great features for optimizing Wi-Fi performance and ensuring your Wi-Fi infrastructure is working as expected. You can also use NPM to poll thin and autonomous access points, and gain information such as IP address, device type, SSID, channels used, and the number of clients currently connected.
This monitoring can help you to set up alerts as well, so you can be notified if there is a sudden drop in Wi-Fi performance or a big spike in connected clients. NPM has a free trial for 30 days on the SolarWinds website.
This tool tracks device status to determine uptime and downtime, and also uses built-in bandwidth sensors to determine bandwidth load. In addition, it looks at how many data packets are travelling across any one access point, and queries devices with SNMP sensors to determine Wi-Fi signal strength. Finally, for security purposes, it can examine the last access time and user logged on network devices. The visualizations are highly interactive. You can see interference from the graphs and locate the device that is causing it.
The software can even help you identify non-WiFi sources of interference. Download: Free 7-day trial of WiSpy. The app allows you to maximize the performance of your AP by keeping track of channels.
The app supports both WiFi bands, the 2. The tool will show information such as SSID, channels, signal strength, frequency band, and security mechanisms. Vistumbler is a free and open-source WiFi network scanner. Download: Vistumbler for official site or from the Github repository. Netstumbler is a free Wireless LAN surveying and stumbler tool for Netstumbler is pretty popular because it can display additional information that some stumbler tools cannot.
It can show information on signal, noise, and SNR levels so that you can identify weak signals in the network and interference. Download: Get the latest version of NetStumbler from its official site.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor NPM is one of the most comprehensive network performance monitoring tools for any infrastructure. You can collect performance metrics information from APs, wireless controllers, and their clients. It also gives you details into the IP addressing information of all APs and their clients. With this tool, you can find the top-talkers users and devices that are consuming the most WiFi bandwidth.
With this tool, you can see how much bandwidth a specific device is consuming, and you can even go one step ahead and see the applications that are consuming the most.
Price: PRTG is free for up to sensors. You can extend the number of monitoring sensors by upgrading to the paid license. CommView captures WiFi packets on the air and then makes them available for you to search and filter.
The list displays useful information, like APs, signal strength, network connections, protocols, etc. The tool comes with powerful alerting capabilities, that can let you know when a specific type of traffic is detected through the WiFi.
Aircrack-ng is a bundle of tools used for advanced pen testing, security, and auditing for The software captures packets and can export all data to third party apps. It can also perform algorithms on the captured packets to find security weaknesses.
WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background, and monitor the activity of wireless networks around you. Download all OpManager editions to trial for 30 days, with free technical support.
Thank you for downloading WiFi Network Monitor from our software portal. The version of the program you are about to download is 6. The software is distributed free of charge. The download was scanned for viruses by our system. Wireless networks are more common than ever. There used to be a time when connecting a computer to a network meant running cabling to it and equipment placement—especially in corporate environments—was often dictated by network jack availability.
With the advent of portable devices such as laptop computers, users started to want to move about with them.
Finding network jack was often a problem. With wireless networks, this is no longer the case. One is free to go anywhere and use devices with no other connectivity option that wireless such as modern tablet or smartphones.
But monitoring wireless networks poses a new challenge. And this tool is called the WiFi analyzer. It can take different forms and run on different platforms but they all have a common goal, provide some information about the status of a wireless network. Analyzers running on portable devices such as smartphones or tablets can be particularly interesting as they can be brought to any location for on-the-spot troubleshooting.
Monitoring wired networks is easy—kind of. Buth things are different with a wireless network. Monitoring wireless networks can mean different things too. On one hand, it could be the actual monitoring of airwaves to discover what signal is available and, more importantly, the relative level of desired as compared to parasitic or unwanted signals.
On the other hand, monitoring can also mean the capture and analysis of wireless access points operational parameters. Thing like signal strength, available channels, number of current connections, and a whole lot more can easily be gleaned by wireless analysis tools.
The term WiFi Analyzer is quite broad and generic. Every maker of such software seems to have its own idea of what it is and what it should be. Some WiFi Analyzers go deeper and can identify a source of interference that might be hindering a WiFi connection. Those tools are very useful as diagnostic tools. Some WiFi analyzers collect data about all WiFi networks they can find and display that information in a useful manner. Most WiFi analyzers boast some sort of visual display depicting WiFi networks.
Others present data in a table format. There are two general types of WiFi analyzers. Those which capture WiFi radio waves emitted by WiFi access points and those which connect to access points using SNMP or other means to read their operational parameter.
The best tools combine both techniques, offering the greatest level of detail. The most common cause for that type of behaviour is simple, something—most likely another WiFi network—is interfering with the operation of the network.
A typical WiFi analyzer would let you let you quickly identify the source of interference. I, for example, have used them once to discover that the next-door tenant in an office building had a much more powerful wireless network operating on the same channel as ours. Once the problem was clearly identified, fixing the issue was a simple matter of reconfiguring my WiFi access points to use another channel.
Another use for WiFi analyzers is to measure the signal distribution over its coverage area, be that within a house, an office or even outdoors.
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