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Heat mapping with Ekehau

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Heat mapping with Ekehau

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- [Instructor] When testing wireless networks it's useful to be able to map out, over the network site, the various network access points and their coverage. This not only helps identify unknown networks, it also identifies network cool and hot spots, as well as neighboring networks which intrude into the site. There are many commercial heat mapping software packages, including Acrylic. However, there's a free software package, which is popular, called Ekahau. It's available for download at the site shown. Ekahau HeatMapper is an entry-level product which can be upgraded to the commercial site survey tool. It doesn't provide a scaling tool to enable the scale to be set on the map, but the commercial upgrade does. It also doesn't allow multiple floors to be stacked on top of each other, something other tools may do. Nevertheless, HeatMapper is pretty useful for many home and business sites. The download and installation is…

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