WiFi Map is a crowdsourced tool for finding all of the Wi-Fi hotspots in your area as well as the passwords to certain security-protected networks. Anyone in the area is able to comment on a WiFi ...

NetSpot is easily the best WiFi analyzer software for both Windows and Mac. It’s an industry standard that’s free to use. Alternatively, one can also look at inSSIDer, AirRadar 5, WiFi Explorer, and ...

Apps like WiFi Analyzer are excellent tools for troubleshooting pesky wireless issues but even still, wouldn't it be much easier (and cooler) if you could visually see what's going on? Thanks to the ...

RF test equipment provider Berkeley Varitronics Systems (BVS—Metuchen, New Jersey) is releasing a new software package called Hive. It's for mapping coverage of any indoor WLAN (wireless local area ...

[Charles] is on a quest to complete ever more jaw-dropping hacks with the popular low-cost ESP8266 WiFi modules. This week’s project is plotting WiFi received signal strength in 3D space. While the ...

Free Wi-Fi tools come in handy. Here are several free programs you can use to do Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying on all the popular platforms. Even if you have an enterprise-level Wi-Fi spectrum ...

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 ...