metageek chanalyzer & inssider product explanation
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We create awesome Wi-Fi tools.
Table of Contents
1. The big question: What makes MetaGeek so awesome?
2. MetaGeek Product Family
3. Geeks we help every day
4. Product Features
5. Thanks!
The BIG question: What makes MetaGeek so
awesome?
Lets start with why we do this
We believe that work should be awesome and something that we
love.
MetaGeek Bio
Founded:★ 2005★ Privately held LLC
Location:★ Downtown Boise Idaho, USA!
Website:★ www.metageek.com
Who uses our tools?★ Large Enterprise IT teams★ SMB’s with a single IT person★ Managed IT service providers★ Network consultants★ ISP technicians★ Wi-Fi engineers★ Home Automation dealers★ Home users★ People like you
The cost to benefit rocks
“…knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from making them better.” –Sheryl Sandberg
Everyone understands the principle behind value of time versus cost. Oftentimes, people do not purchase the right tool to fix the job,
or they don’t see the value behind what can be done.
MetaGeek likes to emphasize “the simpler, the better.”This is why we make awesome Wi-Fi tools!
MetaGeek Product Family
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Accessories:
Optimize: Discover:
MetaCare ReportBuilder
LabAccessory
CiscoClean Air
Accessories:
MetaCare
Accessories:
MetaCare
What are you looking for?
➔ To pick the best channel for your small AP network? (inSSIDer Office)
➔ A Spectrum Analyzer tool to verify security and performance settings? (Chanalyzer)
➔ Need to identify non-Wifi interference? (Chanalyzer + Wi-Spy DBx)
➔ An easy-to-understand Spectrum Analyzer with the ability to accurately measure the channel utilization? (Chanalyzer + Wi-Spy DBx)
➔ A tool that shows me visibility into a channel from packet layer perspective on HOW the channel is being used? (Eye.P.A.)
Who Needs Our Help?
Geeks we help every day.
Who are some of these Geeks?
1. Large Corporation CCNA certified tech: Typically works for a multi-national company that supports multiple buildings.
2. SMB (20 - 100): In-house “IT Guy.”: Responsible for anything and everything remotely technical, from servers, to printers, to phone systems.
3. Managed Services: CWNA certified tech: Typically works for a network VAR
4. Educational IT department.: In charge of all technical stuff and then some. 5. Government IT departments.: Typically supports multiple buildings with
hundreds of people who need strong Wi-Fi at all times. 6. Wi-Fi Home Installers: Help with installations of Wi-Fi/RF connected homes
(thermostat control, security, lights, speakers, Wi-Fi, smart TVs, etc.)7. Home User: Needs to fix their Wi-Fi because it is depressingly slow.
When can MetaGeek help?
When you are:★ Trying to analyze the company’s wireless network. ★ Switching from LAN to wireless, requiring deployment plans and the right tools.★ Exhausting all attempts at troubleshooting different causes of Wi-Fi interference. ★ Monitoring and servicing a multi-AP network. ★ Doing a Site Survey.★ Trying to fix your Wi-Fi at home and nothing is working!★ Losing money by having to return to the job site and Wi-Fi downtime is costing
your client money.
Let’s talk time for a minute.
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” William Penn
It’s a very understated fact that the amount of work an IT professional has to do is staggering, which makes their time very valuable.
We can help you save your time for the things that really matter.
Million dollar Argument For our customers that work with large corporations, the average cost of downtime per
minute is $5,600. (That’s more than our highest cost item.)The average outage period is 200 minutes.
That equals $1,120,000. (Evolven, 2014)
Yes, that is truly over a million dollars for a little over 3 hours of downtime.The cost of our product plus a few minutes could save the company over 1.1 mill.
Pretty compelling argument.
(Please note these figures are for the general technical field. )
“It is important to know that MetaGeek’s products will be used differently by each customer group,
based on the features and benefits that match their needs.”
~ Carmen Broesder, MetaGeek Solution Samurai
Chanalyzer & Wi-Spy
● Waterfall Navigation Pane: useful for jumping to high activity (red) moments in the recording.
● Add notes and images, which carry over to easy-to-read reports created by the Report Builder Accessory (optional.) Quick and Easy!
● Open a previously saved inSSIDer Office or Chanalyzer recording (.wsx) to analyze when you need to. (Awesome Side Note: You would be able to help a tech on the road who has inSSIDer Office!)
● Give descriptive names to AP’s, no need to memorize MAC addresses.
● Add the Device Finder Antenna to locate non-Wi-Fi interference.● With the Cisco CleanAir Accessory you can remotely access all your
Cisco AP’s. No need to be on site! Click here to LEARN MORE.
Chanalyzer Features:
What are others saying?
"Wi-Spy is easily one of my all time favorite tools and I
strongly recommend it to anyone who is responsible
for managing a Wi-Fi network of any size."
— Larry Greenblatt, CISSP, CISM, CEH, ECSA
What does the Wi-Spy do for you?
★ Integrate raw RF signal measurements from Wi-Spy with standard information from your Wi-Fi radio, and create a complete picture of how Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi transmitters impact your wireless networks.
★ The combo of the Wi-Spy DBx (hardware) and Chanalyzer 5 (software) is a portable spectrum analyzer for Wi-Fi troubleshooting. This tool allows you to see both the 2.5 and the 5 GHz Wi-Fi bands!
Click here to LEARN MORE.
EyeP.A.
What is EyeP.A.:
● With EyeP.A. you can get an idea of the total utilization of your Wi-Fi air time and to see a picture of how your channel is being used, packet-by-packet.
● What is generating traffic on the channel, dig deep allows to fix network misconfigurations and optimize throughput & capacity.
● See up to 3 channels simultaneously (with 3 AirPcap Nx devices) to reduce on-site time and eliminate doing a separate packet capture for each channel.
● Powerful and easy-to-use filters for narrowing down data. Click here to LEARN MORE.
Click here for more info.
inSSIDer Office + Wi-Spy Mini/Wi-Spy DBx:
★ inSSIDer Office is a network troubleshooting and optimization tool commonly used for augmenting Wi-Fi scanning data with spectrum analysis data from the Wi-Spy unit. This allows teams to perform coverage spot checks and see if non-Wi-Fi transmitters are interfering with their wireless networks.
★ Office + Mini is used as a leave-behind tool for to do self-scans onsite and send results back to the Managed Services company. This reduces customer site visits which saves $.
★ Analysis alerts for configuration, low signal strength, and security. This is an extremely convenient feature to ensure the signal is above a certain threshold and make sure your network settings match best practices.
Click here to LEARN MORE.
★ Perform basic channel planning that is essential in a Small business or home environment.
★ Avoid channel congestion and pick the best channel for your wireless network.
★ Technology in SMB’s and schools is growing with BYOD that clog up Wi-Fi networks. inSSIDer Office + Wi-Spy mini is a good substitute for any IT Team who can’t help fix these problems.
Click here to LEARN MORE.
inSSIDer Office + Wi-Spy Mini/Wi-Spy DBx
also has the following features:
Site Survey Tools
Visiwave TamoGraph Ekahau
Click here for more info. Click here for more info.
Click here for more info.
Why a Site Survey?
Being the Wi-Fi Warrior that you are, there’s going to come a time in your career where you will need to do an RF Site Survey. Gone are the days where ‘self-configuring’ AP’s are doing the job. We now live in an era where spectrum analyzers are identifying causes of Wi-Fi interference and Site Survey software is finding dead spots you never even knew you had.
Click here to read more about these great tools!
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