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Go ahead and authorize that request and you’re done.
#HOME WIRELESS NETWORK ANALYSIS TOOLS INSTALL#
The only unusual thing during the installation process is that you’ll be prompted to install a special network driver just for Ekahau.
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On Vista and above, you will need to authorize admin privileges for installation, click next a few times, etc.
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Use a valid email as they email the download link directly to your inbox. HeatMapper is completely free, but you will need to complete a basic email signup to download it.
#HOME WIRELESS NETWORK ANALYSIS TOOLS FULL SIZE#
If you have full size blueprints of your home or office you would like to import, most office supply stores, copy shops, and sign shops like Office Max and FedEx Office have blueprint scanners where you can scan (and reduce) your blueprints for a nominal fee. As long as you’re creating a blueprint that’s roughly to scale, just about anything will work. Even recreating your floor plan in Paint would suffice. We grabbed a pad of graph paper, a ruler, and a felt tip pen and whipped up a rough and approximately-to-scale floor plan in a few minutes. You don’t need a blueprint (professional or hand drawn) of your survey area, but we highly suggest sketching one out quickly to provide real world reference points to use during heat map creation. For surveying a small home or office network, HeatMapper is a powerful tool at a great price. We selected Ekahau HeatMapper because it’s an easy-to-use application that is essentially the free version of the multi-thousand-dollar Ekahau SiteSurvey. There are a wide variety of commercial (and a smaller variety of free) Wi-Fi heat map tools on the market for laptops, tablets, smartphones, and combinations thereof.