Netspot for Mac

Netspot is a wireless network survey software for Mac OS X, allowing users to find the best possible WiFi network. All you need to run a wireless network survey is a MacBook computer with Wi-Fi / AirPort adapter. This software does not require special knowledge, just the right position on the map, then Netspot will start measuring wireless network signals and collecting Wifi data.

The salient features of Netspot

Plan for wireless networks

NetSpot is a great tool for planning Wi-Fi networks. Users can download a map, collect some data and start building comprehensive networks for their wifi network. In addition, NetSpot also supports locating empty channels without using the network.

Wireless network display

NetSpot allows you to view all dead areas of the network and optimize hostpot placement. Users can view the currently downloaded channels and decide to use them in the most appropriate way.

Analyze Wi-Fi coverage

NetSpot is the easiest to use wireless network survey software for your Mac computer. Users just need to click a few times to download the plan or area map and start surveying the network. Just point where you are on the map and the software will begin to evaluate the signal immediately.

Fix wireless network problems

With the ability to visualize NetSpot incidents, users can quickly identify available connections and related issues. From there, you can easily find out where the excessive noise is generated and solve problems related to Wifi configuration. In addition, NetSpot automatically provides very professional solutions for users through NetSpot PRO.

New features of NetSpot version 2.4

Improved the Preferences button

With NetSpot 2.4, users can easily customize the settings in Preferences and support many basic information related to the special installation buttons.

• Discover Section includes scanning Wifi interval, automatically showing inactive networks, deleting old data.
• Survey Section includes automatically saved survey projects, sample points and displays data between different sample guess areas.
• The Heatmap Section includes optimization of AP probes , AP detection proximity, Heatmap gradients, Heatmap settings that support individual display, and restoring all default settings.
• The Troubleshooting Section includes pre-locating problems that need to be fixed and restoring to default settings.
• Section Aliases includes adding, deleting, importing and exporting aliases.
• The Active Scanning Section includes checking HTTP speed through installing PHP scripts and checking TCP / UDP speed.through Iperf3 installation to actively activate TCP or / and UDP.

However, Survey Section, Troubleshooting Section, Aliases Section and Active Scanning Section are only supported in PRO version.In addition, the free version only allows for passive survey, but want to use the active survey to give file transfer speed, users must buy the Pro version for $ 149.

Bug fixes in previous versions

• Correct the noise value in some networks surveyed by AirPort frame.
• Additional UI raster images.
• Add a pause button after connecting to the network and before checking the line speed to make sure Internet connections are ready.
• The default scan time is 10 seconds to prevent interrupt signals.
• Fix errors that stop scanning and create empty boxes.
• Fixes bug related to managing AP aliases.
• Correct the error caused by the wrong format of the BSSID.
• Fix the error displaying the UDP

NetSpot 2.4 free version is only for personal computers working on a certain project. This version only allows 1 area on 1 project and 1 snapshot, 50 sample points, 2 images including SNR and SI; up to 5APs and this APs clustering is for SSID network only.

Overall, NetSpot is a useful tool in wireless network planning and design to accurately determine the location of the best access point settings.

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