Wifi Strength App

[Radec]

Is there an app that measures the wifi signal for iPhone? I saw one for android but I

Could not find one for iPhone

[Guest]

How bout you just look at the bars?

[ShiftHitTheFan]

How bout you just look at the bars?

"Bars" are totally inaccurate, if you can see the dbm signal of the wifi, then you can use that.

[Guest]

"Bars" are totaly inacruate, if you can see the dbm signal of the wifi, then you can use that.

No they aren't, they tell you how strong you signal is. The end.

[Guest]

No they aren't, they tell you how strong you signal is. The end.

Article on signal bars:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-do-the-bars-on-your-smartphone-mean-we-asked-an-expert/

 

They do tell how strong your signal is, but that will entirely depend on the algorithm used in the phone

[MblaZe7run]

No they aren't, they tell you how strong you signal is. The end.

No, @ShiftHitTheFan is right. Bars are a terrible misrepresentation of your actual signal. 63dbm and 73dbm are both shown as 1 bar (on my Galaxy Note 3), and that is the difference between a VoIP conversation (like Skype) and no VoIP conversation. 73dbm is where voice data is no longer able to be transmitted successfully on a consistent basis.

[Radec]

I remember Linus used wifi analyzer for his android phone and I

Am jail broken I wanted to accurately measure the wifi signals and interfierance like the App shows

[Guest]

Article on signal bars:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-do-the-bars-on-your-smartphone-mean-we-asked-an-expert/

 

They do tell how strong your signal is, but that will entirely depend on the algorithm used in the phone

Ah digital trends. I remember when they were a good source.

[Radec]

Thank you huilin that's the thing I was looking for

[Broseephus]

Check out Wifi Analyzer .... no need to jailbreak your phone.

[Broseephus]

Wifi Analyzer doesn't show a visual diagram of overlapping channel usage, as well as time chart of signal strength.

 

Those two features alone make it super simple to pick the ideal wifi channel, and for ideal placement of your wifi devices.

 

 

Maybe the features of the Android version are different than the Iphone version but I wouldn't expect so. Wifi Analyzer for Android has both the visual diagram and the time chart.

 

To be fair though I've no personal experience with the IOS version.