inSSIDer is a professional and powerful wireless network signal scanning and troubleshooting tool for Windows and Mac platforms. It can search for all Wi-Fi hotspots near your wireless device and analyze the details of each hotspot, and supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz dual-band search. It not only helps users view network usage, optimize network settings, troubleshoot network troubleshooting, but also is able to assist in launching wireless cracking.

Ekahau AI Pro is an industry-standard tool for designing, deploying, analyzing, optimizing, and troubleshooting all sizes and frequencies of Wi-Fi networks (2.4/5/6 GHz) on Windows and Mac platforms. It provides powerful Wi-Fi planning and AI design for the most reliable, best performing wireless networks, you don't even need to be on site.

I think readers who understand wireless network well know that the security of wireless network comes with congenital deficiency - i.e.: the wireless signal is easy to leak. As a result, compared with the wired network, the monitoring action made to wireless network signals is much easier. CommView for WiFi is a powerful wireless network monitor and analyzer (i.e.: packets capturing and monitoring tool) with friendly UI, industry-leading performance, good flexibility and usability. It's specially developed (by TamoSoft from New Zealand) for wireless network administrators, security specialists, network programmers, or anyone wanting to understand the wireless network communication clearly.

Two possible situations make you want to take a look at the users information in your local area network (LAN):

1. The speed of Internet connection becomes slower and slower, and it was no use giving many tries like modifying DNS, optimizing network
2. To check whether there is a potential attacker

This time, we can use Wireless Network Watcher - a tiny and free local wireless/wired network connection scanner & viewer from NirSoft.

NETGEAR genie is a free cross-platform router managing, monitoring and repairing software. It enables you to easily make a remote access to your home router via PC or smartphone, so as to view and manage all devices connecting to your home network. And, it can automatically repair some common network problems.