NetSpot

About

NetSpot is a professional app for Wi-Fi network planning, wireless site surveys, Wi-Fi analysis, and troubleshooting. The text describes it as best in its class for over 15 years. It can analyze surrounding Wi-Fi networks in real time, showing details such as SSID, BSSID, signal strength, and frequency bands. Users can switch between table and chart views, filter data by various parameters, and export gathered data to CSV format.

For surveys, you point to your location on a map and NetSpot measures the wireless signal as you move through the area. Snapshots from different scanned areas can be merged, and the app can generate interactive Wi-Fi heatmaps and extensive reports. These help you identify radio signal leakages, noise sources, channel usage, and access point efficiency. Predictive Wi-Fi surveys let you design future networks.

For planning and troubleshooting, NetSpot offers tools to lay out single-level or multi-floor designs with wall materials, doors, windows, and access point types and models. A real-time signal distribution preview helps assess access point placement before heatmaps are generated. Heatmaps can also help decide on access point placement and the choice of bands and channels, and the app can measure Internet download and upload speeds. Reviewers on the site rate it 4.9 out of 5 based on 215 user reviews.