About WiFi Explorer

WiFi Explorer is an easy-to-use but powerful utility that allows you to scan, monitor and troubleshoot wireless networks. It offers a collection of views and filter controls that let you visualize and analyze the Wi-Fi environment in a quick and effective manner.

You can use WiFi Explorer to help design and validate wireless networks installations, as well as to identify channel conflicts, overlapping, poor signal quality and other issues that may be affecting the connectivity or performance of your home, office or enterprise wireless network.
WiFi Explorer's main features are:

- Graphical visualization of the wifi environment.
- Works with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wireless networks.
- Supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands as well as 20, 40, 80 and 160 MHz channels.
- Signal quality estimations based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
- Conversion from dBm to percentage (%) units for easier analysis and optimization.
- Detailed description of information elements (IE) advertised by the access point for advanced troubleshooting.
- Device name discovery of access points (if available).
- Selectable and sortable columns.
- Customizable colors for easily tracking particular networks.
- Editable column for labels or annotations.
- Save results for later review and analysis.
- Export metrics and network details to CSV file format.
- Full screen mode.

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