Wi-Fi heat maps are very useful to know where the wireless signal is lost in our home. Thanks to this information, we can place a Wi-Fi repeater in the ideal place to amplify the signal and reach the last corner. With the free app from the Play Store WiFi Heatmap we will be able to create WiFi coverage maps of the network that we are analyzing, and all this in a very easy and fast way, in addition, it will also offer us real-time graphics of the signal and of speed.
Once seen this introduction we will proceed to download WiFi Heatmap from the Play Store by clicking on the link below:
Next, before I start, I will mention some of its most important functions:
- Signal coverage map, connection speed and frequency channels.
- Real-time graph of the intensity of our Wi-Fi network.
- Real-time graph of the speed of our connection.
- Information on the number of networks that interfere with ours.
The developer of the Wi-Fi Solutions app offers us a video that shows how a coverage map is created in broad strokes.
The first time we start the app we will get a screen like this:
Here, WiFi Heatmap offers us information in a visual way of our signal strength, connection speed, channel and more data that we will talk about later.
A relevant thing that, at first glance we see that we are missing, is the name of our Wi-Fi network or SSID. Now what we want to do is activate it for what we will click on unknown ssid . Then this screen will appear and we will click on OK .
What it is doing is asking us for permission to activate the location permission as you can see in the following screenshot.
In this case we give allow because it is a necessary permission for the use of network apps of this type. As you can see, a substantial change appears, and that is that you can already see the name of the Wi-Fi network to which you are connected.
In the upper right corner represented by the three dots are the WiFi Heatmap options. If we want to enter the settings, click on Settings .
Tapping Signal Level will offer us the signal strength of Wi-Fi, along with a real-time graph of fluctuations.
It is also indicating that we are on the 5 GHz network, channel 108 and that we do not have Wi-Fi networks that are interfering with us.
If we click on Link Speed we will see that we are connected at 433 Mbit / s and that we have a graph in real time with the variations in speed. The rest of the information it offers is the same as the previous one.
If we slide our finger down in WiFi Heatmap we see how our MAC address appears next to the local IP that we have at that time. In addition, in a red box are the two options that we will discuss below.
If we click on Wi-Fi conection it will analyze us through a real-time graph of its situation.
Here you can see that the response time by Wi-Fi of the router is 1 ms. These results are the reflection of the ping to the gateway of our router 192.168.1.1 as you can see.
The second test is Internet connection and together with a real-time graph it will show us that the response time is 6 ms. It also does this by pinging IP 8.8.8.8 which is one of Google’s DNS servers.
Now it is time for us to create our heat maps, for which we will touch on Create Heatmap .
In this case WiFi Heatmap will offer us three possibilities.
In this case we are going to deal with the first two since the third Augmented reality leads us to download an application to work with augmented reality.
Therefore we are going to click on Indoor which is to work with plans in the interior and here we are going to talk about two options.
The first Select Floorplan would allow us to create our plan from a previous one that we had before using jpg and other types of files. With the second option Draw Floorplan you will draw yours starting from scratch.
Finally, to finish with WiFi Heatmap, we have Outdoor to reflect on Google Maps a map of the situation where our network is located.
We give the button that I have pointed out below, and then when we press the one above, it will show us where our network is and the neighboring streets. As you have seen, this application is very complete and will allow us to make WiFi heat maps in a very simple way.
