The MetaGeek App is the culmination of MetaGeek’s best work in Layer 2 wireless troubleshooting and is offered with a perpetual license. Enhance and streamline your wireless network performance and resolve roaming issues with ease. By blending the best of Chanalyzer, Eye P.A., and inSSIDer into a single tool for fast, comprehensive analysis of any Wi-Fi network, MetaGeek App also introduces automatic event detection, intelligent client following, and a host of other capabilities never seen before in a MetaGeek product.
While Eye P.A. is amazing, it focuses on post-capture analysis. Many customers have told us about their frustrations with existing Wi-Fi packet capture tools - frustrations that cost time and money, such as:
- Capturing involves multiple manual steps
- Almost zero instrumentation during the capture
- No idea what frames you captured
- You have to scroll massive lists of packets to find events
- Packet exchanges are hard to filter down to and read
- Process is too complicated for a junior tech on site
- Capturing roaming events is a nightmare
- Multi-channel setups are complicated
The primary design goal of the MetaGeek App was to create a "what you see is what you get" packet capture that made it easy and obvious to the user that the desired event was captured, and then be able to export a small pcap file for deeper analysis in other tools like Eye P.A., Wireshark, or OmniPeek.
MetaGeek App performs real-time packet analysis, leveraging beautiful visualizations to remove mental obstacles and promote understanding of technical issues, so the user can resolve network problems. It focuses on real-time 802.11 frame analysis, and can use a Wi-Spy for spectrum analysis to give the user a complete look at their wireless landscape.
The MetaGeek App is:
- WYSIWYG Packet Capture
- Automatic Adapter Channel Management
- Packet Event Detection
- Packet Flow Visualization
- Contextual Packet Decode
- Fast and simple PCAP exporting
“I spend hours trying to capture data, not knowing if I’ve captured it.”
Current packet capture tools require the user to manually select a channel, and give virtually no feedback on what is being captured. Tonic naturally guides the user to the correct channel, AP, or client, and shows the engineer live packet analytics as packets are captured, giving them complete confidence that they’ve captured the issue and relevant data.
“I have to look frame by frame to find the needle in the haystack.”
Current packet analysis tools do little if anything to identify events. Instead of forcing the user to scroll through thousands of packets, Tonic will automatically identify and chronologically locate packet events. Once the engineer sees that an event has occurred, the capture can effortlessly be exported to Eye P.A., which shows shortcuts to events on a similar timeline for instant navigation.
Compatible hardware (sold separately):
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Wi-Spy Lucid (spectrum analysis)
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WiPry Clarity (spectrum analysis)
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Wi-Spy DBx (spectrum analysis)
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Edimax EW-7833UAC AC1750 Dual-Band Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter (Wi-Fi traffic analysis)