Chris Dawe from Wheelwrights LLC and I co-presented this deck at the Mac Admin & Developers Conference in London on Tuesday, February 9th 2016. Our focus was on leveraging native, 3rd party, and cross platform tools to help manage, troubleshoot and plan small, medium and large-scale WiFi networks across sites large & small.

Our presentation notes are available for download as a PDF file: A WiFi Toolkit – MacAdUK 2016

Some tools that we’ve mentioned include:

• Adrian Granados – WiFi Explorer (MAS and non-MAS)
• Adrian Granados – AirTool (free)
• Adrian Granados – WiFi Signal (MAS)
• Wireshark – Free & OS
• Open Source – Kismac (free)
• Etwok – NetSpot (non-MAS)
• Ekahau – SiteSurvey (Windows)
• Metageek – Chanalyzer (Windows)
• Metageek – InSSIDer Office (Mac + Windows)

Some resources that are helpful:

• Wireshark Cheat Sheet for Wi-Fi (PDF Download)
• Revolution Wi-Fi
• CWNP
• Wi-Fi Trek: Prague
• Apple iOS Deployment Guide (PDF Download)
• MacAdmins Slack – channels #wifi #networknerdery #meraki #aerohive
• Cisco Best Practices Guide for Apple Device Deployment (PDF Download)
• Aerohive High Density Network Design Guide (PDF Download)
• Meraki High Density Microsite