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Network Surveying Tools? (self.networking)

submitted 1 year ago by merikus to c/[email protected]

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I’m a pretty competent home networker who has volunteered to help a friend figure out some persistent networking problems. I think there may be an issue of signal loss due to the positioning of the router, and I want to be able to demonstrate that with data.

Does anyone know of a network surveying tool that would display, at a minimum, signal strength at various sample points? Ideally I’d like to be able to use this on iOS, but I can also use it on MacOS. I’m very comfortable with the command line if there are tools you would suggest using there.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ua.com.wifisolutions.wifiheatmap&hl=en

Its android, but its also free. A lot of the mac/iphone stuff is not free. Borrowing an android from a friend is probably easier?

Otherwise, use the ping command and keep an eye on latency and packet drops. If there are spikes in either, you have a problem area

[–] merikus 2 points 1 year ago

I’m happy to pay for something if it works. Like, not $100 but I’d pay $20 or so for a piece of software that meets this need.