WiFi Explorer: Scanner

WiFi Explorer: Scanner for PC and Mac

Published by Adrian Granados on 2024-09-25

  • Compatibility: Available on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 7 & MacOS 10, 11, 10.13
  • Category: Utilities
  • Licence: $19.99
  • Software version: 3.5.3
  • File size: 7.79 MB


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WiFi Explorer Overview

What is WiFi Explorer? WiFi Explorer is an app that helps users discover, monitor, and troubleshoot wireless networks. It quickly identifies channel conflicts, signal overlapping, or configuration problems that may be affecting the connectivity and performance of home, office, or enterprise wireless networks. The app provides an insight into network details such as name, MAC address, device manufacturer, signal strength, noise, channel, band, security configuration, supported data rates, and 802.11 information elements. It supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands as well as 20, 40, 80, and 160 MHz channels and works with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax networks. The app also offers signal quality ratings, accurate conversion from dBm to percentage, detailed description of information elements, export metrics and network details to CSV file format, and much more. WiFi Explorer is suitable for home and small office networks and has an easy-to-use, intuitive user interface with graphical visualization of the Wi-Fi environment. The app requires a Mac with built-in Wi-Fi, and external Wi-Fi adapters are not supported.


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WiFi Explorer: Scanner Features and Description

1. Get an insight into the network details: name (SSID), Windows address (BSSID), device manufacturer, signal strength (RSSI), noise, channel, band, security configuration, supported data rates, 802.11 information elements (IE), and much more.

2. Quickly identify channel conflicts, signal overlapping, or configuration problems that may be affecting the connectivity and performance of your home, office, or enterprise wireless network.

3. Are you a wireless engineer or IT professional working in the design, validation, management, or troubleshooting of enterprise wireless networks? Consider WiFi Explorer Pro.

4. Discover, monitor, and troubleshoot wireless networks with WiFi Explorer.

5. Requires a Windows with built-in Wi-Fi.

6. External Wi-Fi adapters are not supported.



Pros:

  • - Quick and easy to identify performance
  • - Can read the Ins (Information Elements)
  • - Can find hidden networks
  • - Great displays filters
  • - Can switch between Passive and Active scanning

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Installation Requirements

PC Compactibility/Requirements for Installation

Compactible OS list:
  1. Windows 11
  2. Windows 10
  3. Windows 8.1
  4. Windows 7
  5. Windows Vista

Requirements for MacOS Installation

Intel, 64-bit processor, OS X 10.7 or later.

Compactible OS list:
  1. macOS Ventura: 13.3
  2. macOS Monterey: 12.6.4
  3. macOS Big Sur: 11.7.5
  4. macOS Catalina: 10.15
  5. macOS Mojave: 10.14
  6. macOS High Sierra: 10.13

FAQs

WiFi Explorer: Scanner - Is it safe to download?

Yes. The app is 100 percent (100%) safe to download and Install. Our download links are from safe sources and are frequently virus scanned to protect you

Software Reviews and Criticism


  • By dig @localhost

    Incredible

    I’ve been using this utility for years. Anyone who has been profesionally trained on wireless installations knows that it is a practiced science, not an excact science. What works for one enviornment may not work for another. What works at one location in a building may not work 50 feet away in the same building. I use this software as a systems administrator to diagnose wireless performance from my laptop as I walk around the floor in our offices. This utility makes it very quick and easy to identify performance, and see how performance fluctuates as I wander from here to there, identifying deadzones, or areas impacted by high EMI and low SNR. I’d recommend this utility. The author does a good job deploying consistent and regular bugfixes in addition to feature improvements — updating it year after year and keep this program running reliabily as Microsoft releases their OS X platform changes. This app is great. I’d absolutely recommend it.


  • By Brent Smithline

    Great WiFI tool

    I am the “mother-in-law” in our home ( see definition below * ). I live with my son, daughter-in-law, and three grandson’s. Use to have just one wireless Orbi WiFI mesh network for both sections of the house. Daughter-in-law requested a Disney Circle solution so I moved the Orbi mess network to her side of the house on DMZ’d connection off from main router so they are on a separate subnet. On my subnet network off from main router I have my own WiFI access point for my “mother-in-law apartment” side of the house. Now using my background in networking I setup both wireless systems. I purchased “WiFi Explorer” for Windows so I could see how well I did. Well, I did a good job, however “WiFi Explorer” did a better job showing me the spectrum that was being used by our neighbors, and our house. Using this program I was able to fine tune our homes two wireless subnet’s WiFI systems so they now do a better job of not overlapping the channel’s signals from all WiFI sources. So “WiFi Explorer” was well worth the money. * A “mother-in-law apartment” is an accessory dwelling unit (ADU), a separate living space that is either attached to or located on the same grounds as a single-family home. ADUs are also referred to as mother-in-law suites or guesthouses.


  • By @HeyEddie

    BEST WiFI Scanner? Yes! Worth twice the price?! Yes!!!

    I can't say enough good things about this app. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING in this bracket does what WiFIExplorer (WE) does, or as well. I have been using WiFiExplorer for I think 4-5 years. Besides scanning networks, you can read the Ins (Information Elements) if the beacons under the “Advanced” tab, you can find hidden network. You can switch between Passive and Active scanning. The displays filters are great and super useful for finding things quickly. As a wireless professional, WiFiExplorer is one of my main GO TO tools. For quick analysis of the environment I pull out WE first on site. With the Pro version (which I use) you can even performe Spectrum Analysis using 3rd party hardware devices such as MetaGeek's WiSpy. This is truly a professional tool. Even the Standard version of WE is a fantastic tool. Lastly, the developer of this app is SUPER responsive - adding featuers and fixing (the few) bugs that inevitabley come up on a consistent basis. For quick, PROFESSIONAL analysis, cannot go wrong with this app.


  • By caburlingame

    Beautiful, full of information, but there’s a problem

    Please label your left axes. Percent of what? This is a common problem in the sciences, too. /Always label your axes/. I can see where there is a problem, but if I showed it to someone else I imagine their reaction would be, “Pretty. You’re my favorite nerd, and I have no idea what this means.” However, it is great, so five stars. Feature suggestion: Interface with popular routers and use this information to automatically optimize. If the major companies won’t give you an API, offer suggestions for tuning.


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