Wi-Fi SweetSpots

This app "appears" to give valuable information when attempting to measure the strength of your wifi signal (that is the measurement of strength between your wifi router and your device (phone, computer, iPad, tablet, etc), NOT YOUR ISP. I'm gathering it pings and sends packets to the IP of your router to measure to calculate a result. There is some latency encountered and to get an accurate reading I would suggest spending at least a minute in one location before moving to another. It might also be prudent to keep your finger on the record button and let the app avg the poll data. That said as far as how exact the measurements are hard to tell. Would welcome from the makers of this application an explanation as to how they are measuring the strength of the signal. In addition, it would be useful to take the plotted points using gps data and map them to a google map and connect a line between the points so I can see the path I walked on a map with the corresponding wifi data. It would be so much more useful at being able to visualize the results. This doesn't need to be realtime rather it can be generated after the recorded values are saved. Beyond that at face value it appears to do a good job.

Works with iOS 13.3, and provides useful indication of your WiFi coverage by evaluating data transfer speeds. I was simply looking for a simple WiFi signal strength-meter, either a moving needle or a multi-segment bar. The App instead displays real-time data transfer speeds on a moving chart and that’s really much more valuable. I have no idea if the Mbps speed displayed is precisely accurate (it may be), but even if it isn’t, being able to move about and see the relative change in indicated speed is sufficient to be able to determine optimal locations and weak spots. Very nice that you can see the ongoing continuous fluctuations in speed or hold a “button” and see an accumulative average. I think it’s a great tool, very useful for someone looking to optimize their WiFi data transfer rate. Moving just at a few feet can sometimes make quite a difference. I can see this being useful outside my home too, particularly when choosing seating in areas with public WiFi. It is important that the user understands that this does not search for WiFi sources in your vicinity, rather this evaluates (faster speed = stronger signal) the WiFi source you are already connected with. I’m using the App on an iPhone X running iOS 13.3 and I’m quite pleased with it.

Great app.... but it drives me insane that to do a useful 1 minute test I have to HOLD the button for 60 full seconds and ADD 60 to the current running time. The only useful way to run this tests is in 30, 60 or 90 second scans for average speed.... why can’t this have a simple preference to set an average scan time ? Also, another minor annoyance is the super short pop up of suggested names when you want to rename a location. This should be a full size lists with permanent custom default names as well as recent names . I love this app.. LOVE it! But those 2 things drive me absolutely batty nuts every time with frustration.

When passing through different access points of the same wifi name/credentials (poor-man's-mesh-networking) the mac address of the wifi access point never updates but the signal meter continues (you can't map overlapping "cells" to know which AP you're connected to so you know which AP to adjust). It stays as the mac addr first AP you started on. The feedback window doesn't scroll and the keyboard covers all but four lines of text. You can't read what you've typed without painfully dismissing the keyboard and hope you hit the right word to edit. When I tried to submit this feedback in-app it told me to enter an email address in the settings menu, but there's no place in the settings menu inside the app to do that. I have to supply feedback through a review.

I’ve owned several network analyzer apps that dished out a bunch of information that was way over my head. All I wanted to know was how my wifi was getting around my property. Ya, there were sweetspots and deadspots. I also learned my 5meg transmitter wasn’t getting out of the room it was sitting in. Didn’t take long to find out the power level had been turned down to 25% in the router. Dah. Now there are many many more 5meg sweetspots around the house. Great app!