MetaGeek Products Overview

inSSIDer Office + Wi-Spy Mini

inSSIDer is a WiFi scanner. It uses your WiFi adapter on your computer for scan for wireless networks to show you their signal strength.

With inSSIDer Office, you can:

• Pick a better channel for your network
• Make sure you are using strong security
• Measure coverage around your router or access point

inSSIDer Office adds a host of additional features, the most important being support for Wi-Spy, which is a special device called a spectrum analyzer. You can learn more about what Wi-Spy adds here.

Chanalyzer + Wi-Spy DBx

Generally regarded as the "cable tester" of WiFi, a spectrum analyzer should be the first serious step that you take when you begin working on a WiFi issue.

Chanalyzer (the software) and Wi-Spy DBx (the hardware) work together to bring you portable spectrum analysis. With a spectrum analyzer, you can look at the raw radio frequency activity around you - not just where the wireless networks like you can with a normal WiFi adapter.

With Chanalyzer + Wi-Spy, you can:

• See non-WiFi interference that are normally invisible
• Identify what type of device is causing the interference
• Physically locate non-WiFi interference
• See how busy each WiFi channel really is by measuring RF activity
• Take recordings, and play them back later

Eye P.A. + AirPcap Nx

Ok, so you've looked at the spectrum, and didn't find any non-WiFi interference? Good. Step 2 in most WiFi troubleshooting processes is to check out the actual 802.11 conversations with a packet analyzer.

Eye P.A. can take a packet capture with an AirPcap Nx (a product by Riverbed), or you can bring your own packet capture. It parses the data to visualize which networks and clients talked a lot, and which ones talked a little.

You can use that to find out if a device hogged all of the available airtime, and you can quickly drill down into conversations to see 802.11 conversations.

With Eye P.A., you can:

• Identify devices that are having slow, inefficient conversations
• See which devices are transmitting the most data
• Identify problem devices that are consuming airtime, or repeating themselves often
• Get expert tips on what you can do to improve the performance of your network
• Export to Wireshark to turn Eye P.A. into a powerful filtering tool!