Netspot

NetSpot is a Wi-Fi planning and wireless site survey app designed to assist SMBs, home owners, and IT professionals in optimizing their wireless networks. According to the vendor, it is a valuable tool for IT and network administrators, wireless service providers, engineers, hardware vendors, and consultants involved in troubleshooting, analyzing, and improving network coverage, capacity, and performance. With its comprehensive features and user-friendly interface, NetSpot is positioned as an essential solution for managing Wi-Fi networks.

Key Features

Inspector Mode: According to the vendor, this feature collects detailed information about surrounding Wi-Fi networks, presents wireless data as an interactive table, and helps troubleshoot and improve network coverage, capacity, performance, and APs configurations.

Live Data: The vendor claims that this feature collects live Wi-Fi data from all surrounding networks, provides channel info, transmit rate, vendor, security type, band, etc., and displays customizable signal level and noise charts in real-time.

Augments Surveys: The vendor states that this feature is ideal for locating Wi-Fi issues in a specific area, helps identify busy and least occupied channels in the 2.4, 5, and 6GHz bands, and allows quick analysis of all Wi-Fi networks with color-coded dBm bars.

CSV Export: According to the vendor, this feature enables saving historical data per each access point for later review and supports export of survey data in CSV format for further analysis.

Network Search: The vendor claims that this feature helps find the needed network quickly in environments with many access points.

Wi-Fi Surveys: According to the vendor, this feature provides in-depth network analysis through interactive color-coded heatmaps, allows outlining real-life Wi-Fi data on a map, and includes flexible professional reports for comprehensive analysis.

Multi-level Projects: The vendor states that this feature allows creating multiple zones per project to represent different areas, floors, levels, etc., and offers the ability to compare Wi-Fi configurations by creating snapshots within each zone.

Visualizations: According to the vendor, this feature provides interactive heatmaps with detailed information on all surveyed wireless networks, allows creating snapshots within each zone for quick comparison of Wi-Fi configurations, and offers automated troubleshooting heatmaps with extensive recommendations.

Hybrid Surveys: The vendor claims that this feature allows conducting simultaneous active and passive surveys, provides comprehensive data on signal-to-noise ratio, signal level, access points quantity, noise level, signal-to-interference ratio, frequency band coverage, and PHY mode coverage.

Data Export: According to the vendor, this feature supports exporting project survey data reports in PDF or CSV format, allows quick export of active visualizations into PDF format, and offers an enterprise-level customizable report builder.