Most of these tools are the free versions of for-pay tools made by the same vendors, and lack some of the features included in the commercial versions. One of them includes Wi-Fi password-cracking tools that are useful for educational or penetration testing purposes. Some can even reveal “hidden” or non-broadcasted SSIDs, display the noise levels, or display statistics on successful and failed packets of your wireless connection.

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( external USB WiFi adapters needed when used on windows virtual machines in Macs) Chanalyzer provides detailed spectrum data like density graphs, waterfall graphs, pattern matching (Fig2), channel utilization graphs etc.

What is MU-MIMO? Why do you need it in your wireless routers? Chanalyzer captures WiFi data from the internal WiFi cards of the laptop that is used for the analysis work.

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Here is a look at eight free tools – some for Windows and some for Mac OS X – that provide basic details about nearby Wi-Fi signals: SSIDs, signal strength, channels, MAC addresses and security status.

There is enterprise-level software for surveying Wi-Fi networks, but even in large wireless networks, simple freeware tools are handy for a quick peek at the airwaves during design, deployment or troubleshooting.

Wifi analytics tool for mac