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I've been watching the WiFi Analytics App since it released and there have been little to no improvements to this terrible app which is probably one of the worst out there, but people will use it because it's Netgear.
The app's functions were recently put into Netgear's Netgear Genie program. Yet, when they were ported over, they still lacked any real quality from a wireless scanner. I can't believe Netgear would put out such a shoddy program which probably took them very little time to work on.
Some of the flaws -
1) You need to be connected to a network for the app to work most of the time and you can't select a network in the signal box. Most devices will have their scanning abilities incredibly weakened when connected to a network.
2) You have to manually keep checking boxes for the networks for them to show up on your channel graph whenever they show up. Even after selecting "Select All" you have to keep checking the new networks popping in for it to show.
3) The graphs on the app are incredibly glitchy and constantly flash.
4) The graphs only show networks on channels 1 up and 1 down from their main channel (ex. a network on channel 6 shows as on 5-7 and according to the graph isn't overlapping with a channel 4 network).
5) The channel table only takes a channel into consideration if there's a network on it within range. If there's a network on channel 4,5, and 7 it'll only tell you what's best out of those 3.
6) It rates channels purely on the number of SSIDs and not strength. There could be 3 -90 signals on channel 1 and one -40 signal on 6 and it'll suggest you 6.
7) The channel analysis doesn't take into consideration overlap AT ALL. You could have your main network on 6 and if channel 7 is on the table with one network, it'll suggest you 7 even though you would pretty much be destroying yourself.
8) The program can't detect 40/80 MHz. All networks will show up as 20 MHz, even on the desktop version.
9) For the "Home Testing" function, it just records your signal and link rate and not your actual throughput to the router.
10) Whatever else I forgot to mention.
You would expect better work from a company like Netgear considering the much smaller companies have apps/scanners way better than this. This is only going to app to wireless troubles of Netgear users/neighbors of them because this app will be telling them to overlap their neighbors one channel away.
I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of auto channel scanning functions on their routers was the same. I always see newer Netgears on the oddest channels. They're always on channel 2, 10, or 5 or the like.
This app throws the 1,6,11 rule out the window.
The app's functions were recently put into Netgear's Netgear Genie program. Yet, when they were ported over, they still lacked any real quality from a wireless scanner. I can't believe Netgear would put out such a shoddy program which probably took them very little time to work on.
Some of the flaws -
1) You need to be connected to a network for the app to work most of the time and you can't select a network in the signal box. Most devices will have their scanning abilities incredibly weakened when connected to a network.
2) You have to manually keep checking boxes for the networks for them to show up on your channel graph whenever they show up. Even after selecting "Select All" you have to keep checking the new networks popping in for it to show.
3) The graphs on the app are incredibly glitchy and constantly flash.
4) The graphs only show networks on channels 1 up and 1 down from their main channel (ex. a network on channel 6 shows as on 5-7 and according to the graph isn't overlapping with a channel 4 network).
5) The channel table only takes a channel into consideration if there's a network on it within range. If there's a network on channel 4,5, and 7 it'll only tell you what's best out of those 3.
6) It rates channels purely on the number of SSIDs and not strength. There could be 3 -90 signals on channel 1 and one -40 signal on 6 and it'll suggest you 6.
7) The channel analysis doesn't take into consideration overlap AT ALL. You could have your main network on 6 and if channel 7 is on the table with one network, it'll suggest you 7 even though you would pretty much be destroying yourself.
8) The program can't detect 40/80 MHz. All networks will show up as 20 MHz, even on the desktop version.
9) For the "Home Testing" function, it just records your signal and link rate and not your actual throughput to the router.
10) Whatever else I forgot to mention.
You would expect better work from a company like Netgear considering the much smaller companies have apps/scanners way better than this. This is only going to app to wireless troubles of Netgear users/neighbors of them because this app will be telling them to overlap their neighbors one channel away.
I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of auto channel scanning functions on their routers was the same. I always see newer Netgears on the oddest channels. They're always on channel 2, 10, or 5 or the like.
This app throws the 1,6,11 rule out the window.
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