Wireless LAN Professionals

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We released the WLAN Pros Toolbox to the public on July 7, a free set of 170+ tools for Wi-Fi professionals. Four days later, we set out to prove it wrong. We went through the whole app, tool by tool, and we found real problems. Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly, along with what we did about every bit of it.

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When a connection breaks, test from the client device, in order, from the radio up. The client is the only place where the truth lives. The controller dashboard tells you what the AP thinks is happening. The client tells you what is actually happening to the user standing in the room. Those are not the same thing, and when they disagree, the client wins.

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The WLAN Pros Toolbox is now free on all five platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, and the web. No account, and nothing to buy.

I built it because I was tired of carrying a separate app for every calculation I do on a job. Now it’s one app, 173 tools, on every device you own.

Inside you’ll find: