Drill down to the root cause of Wi-Fi issues.

Eye P.A. is a wireless troubleshooting tool that allows you to capture all of the conversations on a Wi-Fi channel. From here, you’ll be able to visually drill down to get the play-by-play of the chatter on your network, and see the congestion from all of the networks that share your channels.

There may be a lot more slowing down your Wi-Fi traffic than you realize. Wi-Fi packet analysis shows you all of the management and control frames that make up Wi-Fi overhead. Eye P.A.’s built in tips allow you to optimize the ratio of Wi-Fi overhead to actual data, helping to improve your WLAN performance.

At the heart of Eye P.A. are “treepies.” These multi-layered pie charts display overall utilization for the total amount of air time, total packets, and total bytes present in a .pcap file.

Eye P.A. provides visualization analysis of:

WireShark .pcap and .pcap-ng
WildPackets Omnipeek .pkt and .apc
Microsoft Network Monitor .cap
Direct Capture with AirPcap Nx

Analyze with built-in tips and information.

After you select the network(s) you are interested in troubleshooting, Eye P.A. identifies network issues and suggests improvements based on its packet inspection of protection mechanisms, legacy data rates, encryption, and channel placement. You’ll be presented with information that suggests steps you can take to ensure your Wi-Fi deployment is of the highest quality possible.

Robust Filtering Engine.

Eye P.A. does all of the heavy lifting for you. The filters are applied quickly and are powerful enough to handle any combination you throw at it. What you see in the treepies and the associated data tables can be filtered by SSID, MAC address, and even Subframe Types. You can also use the adjustable time graph to select the time span that looks most interesting.

TIP: filter by MAC vendor type to find smart phones or tablets on the WLAN and track their roaming events.

Easy to understand packet and data visualizations.

In Eye P.A.’s Packets tab, you’ll find a table that breaks down the conversation in your capture as it happened. Being able to see the RSSI, Data Rate, and other specific packet-level details provides even more insight into the cause of a WLAN’s problems. You can even see the direction packets were being sent at a glance.

Just like with the tree-pies, the packets table will update to reflect whatever filters and timespan you’ve set. You can also customize the columns to only show what you’re interested in.

Eye P.A. is an indispensable tool for Network Engineers and wireless troubleshooters.

Measure WLAN network retransmission
Identify “slow talkers” on your wireless network
Optimize your Wi-Fi settings
Improve overall network throughput and capacity

Introducing MetaCare Assurance Plan

The MetaCare Assurance Plan is a new software maintenance agreement that entitles you to obtain and legally install future software updates for MetaGeek software. Your plan is valid for all updates released during the period the software maintenance agreement is in effect. Updates range from bug fixes, minor feature updates, major enhancements, and all the other wonderful changes we have in store.

MetaCare is provided by MetaGeek directly, whether you purchased your software from MetaGeek or through an authorized MetaGeek Reseller. The agreement is by default an annual contract – longer terms are available for purchase and will guarantee you have the most current and feature-rich versions of the Wi-Fi Troubleshooting tools you need.

More information about MetaCare Assurance Plan, please visit www.metageek.net/metacare