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You can turn your smartphone into a Wi-Fi analyzer by installing a free or inexpensive app through your phone's app store. These days, these apps are easy to find, easy to use, and provide useful information without much hassle. In this project, you install a Wi-Fi analyzer app on your phone and try it out on your home or school Wi-Fi network. These instructions are specific to an Android smartphone installing the Wifi Analyzer app, but you can adjust the steps to work for other smartphones and different apps.
- On an Android smartphone, go to the Play Store and search for the appWifi Analyzer. The app used in this specific example was created by farproc, but you can choose a different app if you want to.
- Install the app and open it. You can look at the Online Help page at this time, or you can wait until later.
- At the time of this writing, the app is programmed to automatically start scanning for Wi-Fi signals. It provides a live feed of signal strength and channel coverage for the wireless networks in its reach. You can see inFigure 6-25that three networks were available at the time of the reading, two of which were using overlapping channels. The local network provided the strongest signal.
Figure6-25
This Wifi analyzer app detected three wireless networks
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