Wi-Fi Network Monitor

Monitor your Wi-Fi network to analyze performance

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Easily discover and monitor wireless access points with Wi-Fi monitoring tools

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As part of the network discovery process, SolarWinds^® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) can automatically discover wireless access points and controllers as wireless devices. This Wi-Fi monitoring software helps categorize and recognize all wireless devices available in your network. You can monitor and manage these wireless devices alongside your wired devices via a comprehensive system of alerts, reports, and top 10 lists of your infrastructure.

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Leverage Wi-Fi monitoring software to build wireless heat maps

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Wi-Fi network monitor allows you to visualize wireless coverage, making it easy to identify dead zones, make adjustments, and improve coverage. NPM Wi-Fi monitoring tools use the information from wireless access points, connected clients, and their signal strengths per access point to create a heat map. These in-depth heat maps automatically update every five minutes to reflect changing connectivity, helping you gain accurate coverage visibility.

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Manage and monitor Wi-Fi infrastructure with Wi-Fi monitoring tools

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Periodically poll thin and autonomous wireless access points, controllers, and connected devices with SolarWinds Wi-Fi monitoring software. With NPM, a comprehensive wireless network monitor, you can alert, monitor, and report on a host of details, including IP address, device type, SSID, channels used, and the number of clients currently connected. Client details include client name, SSID, IP Address, MAC Address, Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), time connected, and more.

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Troubleshoot network issues with a Wi-Fi network monitor

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Network Performance Monitor provides topology- and dependency-aware intelligent network monitoring alerts. All alerts are displayed via a customizable web-based dashboard to help IT admins detect, diagnose, and resolve network performance issues, quickly and efficiently. Use the Wi-Fi network monitor to drill down into problem wireless nodes and immediately view a range of device details, including packet loss, average response time, and current node status.

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Conduct Wi-Fi analysis to keep track of network devices

Performing comprehensive Wi-Fi network analysis doesn’t have to be a chore. Using SolarWinds NPM, IT admins can consolidate network device data into one central, easy-to-access dashboard. The dashboard’s filter feature makes it easy to find the details you need. You can also view performance, traffic, and configuration details of devices and apps—whether on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments—via the Wi-Fi network monitor.

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Do you find yourself asking…

What is a Wi-Fi monitor?
What types of issues can be monitored by a Wi-Fi monitor?
Why is Wi-Fi monitoring important?
How does Wi-Fi monitoring work in Network Performance Monitor?
Why should I choose SolarWinds NPM as my Wi-Fi monitoring tool?

Every day your network, regardless of its size, relies on Wi-Fi to ensure wireless, remote, and mobile devices remain connected to one another and to internet access points. With so many devices accessing the internet and participating in networks at any given time, reliable network uptime is no longer a guarantee.

This is where Wi-Fi monitoring devices come into play. A Wi-Fi network monitor is a form of software used to collect, consolidate, and display information about the access points and channels on your network via one, easy-to-access dashboard. Most Wi-Fi monitoring tools allow you to choose a wireless spectrum to evaluate, like 2.4GHz or 5GHz. Once you’ve selected your wireless spectrum, the platform will gather and display information pertaining to the health of your networks, their channels, and overall signal strength.

These platforms track key performance metrics and provide in-depth, critical device details, including current node status, device information, average response time, packet loss, and more at a glance—so you can keep your finger on the pulse of Wi-Fi connectivity. While Wi-Fi monitors can vary in their approach, it’s important to find a tool designed to synthesize data effectively. This means turning to tools leveraging network visualization or a logical data prioritization hierarchy to help you understand how data points relate and where network issues may be forming.

Comprehensive Wi-Fi performance monitoring devices also provide color-coded heatmaps to leverage device data and display signal strength. These maps provide real-time insights into your wireless network and further facilitate troubleshooting when users come calling with connectivity complaints. Using the heatmap to identify where network downtime is occurring, you can then drill down and examine the routers, access points, and connected clients to glean more insights into what’s causing the connectivity issue and how it can be remedied.

Delayed response times, dropped Wi-Fi signals, and overall weak and unreliable Wi-Fi is typically rooted in connection speed, signal strength, capacity, and network security. Wi-Fi performance monitoring tools gather and display robust insights into each of these categories, so you can get to the root of poor performance before “business as usual” comes to a grinding halt. Here are the four most common issues Wi-Fi monitoring tools will help you detect, diagnose, and resolve:

Poor connection speed – Slow internet and/or inter-device connections are often the result of noise, which can be anything interfering with the Wi-Fi client’s waveform and preventing it from carrying a signal. Noise comes in many shapes and sizes. Microwaves, power strips, and Bluetooth devices all emit waves which can impede with your Wi-Fi. When noise interferes with your Wi-Fi connection, transmission rates lag considerably.

Weak signal strength – A weak signal strength will prevent applications, web browsers, and network servers from performing at their highest possible level. Noise plays a major part in the quality of your signal as do the buildings and materials surrounding your router. So, while radio waves can travel through drywall, wood, and glass, they struggle to penetrate metal, concrete, and stone.

Mismanaged network capacity – A successful IT infrastructure must take network bandwidth into consideration. Your network bandwidth is determined by the number of devices and the amount of traffic your Wi-Fi network can handle. While most networks can support around 250 devices, linking all of these devices to one network, at one time, will drastically reduce your connection speed. Access points are a great way to help manage your bandwidth and regain a steady, speedy connection.

Compromised network security – A compromised Wi-Fi connection serves as an invitation for cyber attackers, putting sensitive data in jeopardy. It also results in a shaky internet connection plagued by excessive lag times, as hackers greedily consume network bandwidth. A Wi-Fi monitor will help you ensure a safe and secure connection.

Every day your network, regardless of its size, relies on Wi-Fi to ensure wireless, remote, and mobile devices remain connected to one another and to internet access points. With so many devices accessing the internet and participating in networks at any given time, reliable network uptime is no longer a guarantee.
This is where Wi-Fi monitoring devices come into play. A Wi-Fi network monitor is a form of software used to collect, consolidate, and display information about the access points and channels on your network via one, easy-to-access dashboard. Most Wi-Fi monitoring tools allow you to choose a wireless spectrum to evaluate, like 2.4GHz or 5GHz. Once you’ve selected your wireless spectrum, the platform will gather and display information pertaining to the health of your networks, their channels, and overall signal strength.
These platforms track key performance metrics and provide in-depth, critical device details, including current node status, device information, average response time, packet loss, and more at a glance—so you can keep your finger on the pulse of Wi-Fi connectivity. While Wi-Fi monitors can vary in their approach, it’s important to find a tool designed to synthesize data effectively. This means turning to tools leveraging network visualization or a logical data prioritization hierarchy to help you understand how data points relate and where network issues may be forming.
Comprehensive Wi-Fi performance monitoring devices also provide color-coded heatmaps to leverage device data and display signal strength. These maps provide real-time insights into your wireless network and further facilitate troubleshooting when users come calling with connectivity complaints. Using the heatmap to identify where network downtime is occurring, you can then drill down and examine the routers, access points, and connected clients to glean more insights into what’s causing the connectivity issue and how it can be remedied.

"The wireless summary review is really awesome. You get a lot of data—how many people are on each access point, how many bytes are being transferred, etc."

Michael Hava

IT Director

Lyon Real Estate