If your Wi-Fi adapter supports both bands: 2.4GHz and 5GHz, you can analyze one or both network bands at the same time. Information you can use to configure your wireless router to use a less crowded channel to improve the connection quality.
Through the Analyze section, you can find important information that can help choose the best available access point with the best quality signal, or it can also help you identify the many access points sharing the same wireless channel. Similar to the Wifi Analyzer tool app for Android, you can analyze the wireless networks around your area. If you're reading this and you're a Windows Phone 8.1 user, your homework is to find something that does a similar job in the Store and which you can recommend.When you select a wireless network from the list, you will be able to see signal quality, the amount of data that has gone through the adapter, local and public IP addresses, MAC address, current data throughput, and a bunch of other valuable pieces of information. Note that it might jump to being a commercial or ad-funded application when it's finished. If you're on Windows 10 Mobile, you can grab this for free here in the Store. Here's the pop-out Settings panel - the interface is all Windows 10 Mobile, of course, and very nicely done indeed. More details of your currently connnected Wifi network, in gory tech detail!Ī graphical display over time is also available, so that you can see network strengths as you move around a venue, perhaps, recording the strength at each point. Good call!ĭetailed network names and signal strengths. If I were to put in a new router, the utility recommends I pick 'Channel 1'.
With its help you can identify Wi-Fi problems or find the best place for your Router/Access-Point.Įach existing signal is shown in real time, with strength and network name - the 'BT' ones here are all the same access point, by the way, it's a whole 'BT' thing (don't ask). This app turns your PC/Laptop, Tablet or Phone into an analyzer for your wireless network. Which will be almost everyone in time, but at the moment you'll have to be on the W10M Insiders programme, obviously. It's marked as 'Preview' at the moment because the developer is updating it every few days - also, being a universal application for Windows 10, it's only available to phones running Windows 10 Mobile, of course. Why do you need this? Because it's a great way to work out what's interfering with your Wi-fi - spot when your neighbour's on the same channel and move your Wifi into an uncontested slot, etc! In theory you'll have better reliability and faster connections.
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