We performed a comparison between AirMagnet Survey and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Troubleshooting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the predictive survey. The antennas' RF patterns are reflected correctly on the drawing when preparing predictive heat maps."
"The addition of the AirMapper software on the nXG and our AirCheck G2s has helped a lot because we're mostly not drilling down into the data. Local managers only need to see the coverage on their end and whether there are performance bottlenecks. These things are easy enough for us to ascertain with iPerf."
"Clear and easy to use maps."
"We use the solution for Wi-Fi and networks."
"The predictive survey is the most valuable feature. I use it quite often."
"It allows us to prepare more real designs. Later, we validate them with actual surveys."
"It is reliable and easy to use (user-friendly). The heat mapping, passive network surveying, and doing the heat mapping of a building's wireless network allows me to see what level of coverage an area has."
"Customer service is great."
"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."
"Setup is very easy. It's also possible to change source code and compile if you want to change something in the code, because it's free."
"I use the filters very often, to determine what type of traffic I am looking for. The use of filter allows traffic to be segmented so that a value can be looked at individually apart from the other traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"Printouts are JPEG printouts. The AirMagnet software is proprietary. I can't send my customers a file, because it is AirMagnet file, even for building projects. I can only send JPEGs or screenshots of heat maps."
"The surveying features are in need of improvement, along with general usability."
"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"It would be nice to have some more training resources for younger techs. We can use them if we need some assistance, but that usually requires one of us who knows what we're doing to calibrate the programs properly."
"AirMagnet Survey doesn't cover certain devices in the system."
"The user interface needs a lot of improvement. The auto-placement of access points is not accurate."
"The throughput should be more advanced in the future. They need to add more versions of WiFi than just one."
"Less time consumed doing the real surveys."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"The Wireshark search function shows green for a correct search and red for an incorrect search. If there were a way to provide a description about what a search - and the similar ones which are available - can do, while a person is typing it, it would make the product easier to use and simultaneously decrease the learning curve."
"There is a disadvantage when it comes to sampling intervals. Additionally, I've heard from a colleague that Wireshark might be less effective in the voice domain."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."
"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
AirMagnet Survey is ranked 8th in Network Troubleshooting with 38 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. AirMagnet Survey is rated 8.2, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AirMagnet Survey writes "It fixes so many problems quickly that we don't regret spending more on high-end tools than most companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". AirMagnet Survey is most compared with Ekahau Site Survey, Aruba Wireless, AirCheck G3 and iBwave Wi-Fi, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa and Auvik Network Management (ANM). See our AirMagnet Survey vs. Wireshark report.
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