Airwave

Airwave sits in the notification area and listens to the Wi-Fi around your PC. It shows every network in range with its signal strength and channel, tells you which channel is least crowded, and keeps a history of how good your own connection has been.

What it does

Lists every access point in range: network name, signal in dBm and as a percentage, channel, band (2.4, 5 or 6 GHz), channel width, security type, Wi-Fi generation and maker. Sortable and searchable, with your own network highlighted.
A channel graph for each band: the classic picture of which networks sit on which channels and how wide they are.
Channel advice: rates the channel your network is on and names the best alternative on each band, with the reasoning shown (how many networks overlap, and how strong they are).
A Connection page for the network you are on, with a plain verdict: excellent, good, weak or unusable.
A history of your own connection, noted once a minute: charts for a day, week and month, every drop-out with its time and duration, moves between access points, and the best and worst hours of the day.
Room survey: name a spot, press Measure, and Airwave averages the signal for 30 seconds. Compare spots, and measure again to see whether moving the router helped.
Windows notifications, each with its own switch: weak signal for a few minutes, Wi-Fi disconnects (with a count if it keeps happening), a crowded channel when a clearly better one exists, and a notice when another access point uses your network's name with a different maker or weaker security.
Signal-over-time graph for any networks you tick. Light and dark mode, CSV export, and any graph saved as an image.

What it does not do

It only listens. Airwave never connects to, probes or tests a network that is not yours, and it has no password features of any kind.
Nothing leaves your PC. The only thing Airwave contacts is this store, to check the licence and look for a new version.

Good to know

It needs a Wi-Fi adapter. A PC on a network cable only has nothing to listen with.
Newer versions of Windows show nearby Wi-Fi networks to apps only while location access is switched on. Airwave tells you when that is the reason for an empty list and opens the right Windows setting.
Everything is measured from where the PC sits. Channel advice is a good first thing to try, not a measurement of what your router hears.
The connection history is kept only while Airwave is running, so let it start with Windows. Time when the PC was asleep shows as a gap, never as a drop-out.
It installs for your user account only and never asks for administrator rights.
Free to try for 14 days with every feature. After that Airwave needs a licence to keep running; without one it stops scanning and logging and opens only its licence screen. Nothing is deleted, and your history is shown again once a licence is active.

One-time purchase for one PC. Includes every version released in the following 12 months; the version you have keeps working after that.

What it does

Lists every access point in range: network name, signal in dBm and as a percentage, channel, band (2.4, 5 or 6 GHz), channel width, security type, Wi-Fi generation and maker. Sortable and searchable, with your own network highlighted.
A channel graph for each band: the classic picture of which networks sit on which channels and how wide they are.
Channel advice: rates the channel your network is on and names the best alternative on each band, with the reasoning shown (how many networks overlap, and how strong they are).
A Connection page for the network you are on, with a plain verdict: excellent, good, weak or unusable.
A history of your own connection, noted once a minute: charts for a day, week and month, every drop-out with its time and duration, moves between access points, and the best and worst hours of the day.
Room survey: name a spot, press Measure, and Airwave averages the signal for 30 seconds. Compare spots, and measure again to see whether moving the router helped.
Windows notifications, each with its own switch: weak signal for a few minutes, Wi-Fi disconnects (with a count if it keeps happening), a crowded channel when a clearly better one exists, and a notice when another access point uses your network's name with a different maker or weaker security.
Signal-over-time graph for any networks you tick. Light and dark mode, CSV export, and any graph saved as an image.

What it does not do

It only listens. Airwave never connects to, probes or tests a network that is not yours, and it has no password features of any kind.
Nothing leaves your PC. The only thing Airwave contacts is this store, to check the licence and look for a new version.

Good to know

It needs a Wi-Fi adapter. A PC on a network cable only has nothing to listen with.
Newer versions of Windows show nearby Wi-Fi networks to apps only while location access is switched on. Airwave tells you when that is the reason for an empty list and opens the right Windows setting.
Everything is measured from where the PC sits. Channel advice is a good first thing to try, not a measurement of what your router hears.
The connection history is kept only while Airwave is running, so let it start with Windows. Time when the PC was asleep shows as a gap, never as a drop-out.
It installs for your user account only and never asks for administrator rights.
Free to try for 14 days with every feature. After that Airwave needs a licence to keep running; without one it stops scanning and logging and opens only its licence screen. Nothing is deleted, and your history is shown again once a licence is active.

One-time purchase for one PC. Includes every version released in the following 12 months; the version you have keeps working after that.

See every Wi-Fi network around you, pick the quietest channel, and track your own signal.

What it does

What it does not do

Good to know

A closer look.

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Airwave

See every Wi-Fi network around you, pick the quietest channel, and track your own signal.

What it does

What it does not do

Good to know

A closer look.

Need somethinglike this built?