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AirMagnet Survey PRO vs Riverbed SteelCentral WebAnalyzer [EOL] comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 7, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AirMagnet Survey PRO
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Network Modeling and Simulation (4th), Network Troubleshooting (6th)
Riverbed SteelCentral WebAn...
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Mark Witherspoon - PeerSpot reviewer
Wireless Services Manager at Veritas Managed Solutions
A solution for site verifications and enhanced with adapters that provide more realistic readings, but needs to support Wi-Fi 6E
Ekahau and AirMagnet Survey have their own pros and cons, in my opinion. For example, the APs are not visible in Ekahau but AirMagnet Survey allows us to see what APs and channels are being used in a live view, which Ekahau lacks. In Ekahau, the signal from the AP it's capturing at that time is visible which is a bit of an inconvenience. The predictive planner of AirMagnet's is better. However, Ekahau has advantages over AirMagnet because it groups all the SSIDs into one AP, whereas with AirMagnet, one needs to group them manually. Ekahau also supports Wi-Fi 6E, but its licensing is restrictive and more costly.
it_user539928 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
I was able to monitor two key applications that were hosted externally.
WebAnalyzer includes support for Ajax transactions, while this is invaluable, it becomes difficult to provide a big picture analysis of pageviews AND ajax transactions. The APDEX score is calculated on pageview response times. Some applications use Ajax extensively to imitate desktop applications. This can be confusing if you only look at Pageview times.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has helped us to survey coverage after implementation."
"The predictive survey creates heat maps which are accurate and save a lot of time."
"You will find out quickly that the AirMagnet survey tool is the most versatile tool out there."
"The whole program itself benefits me."
"Everything about the AirMagnet is useful."
"The product takes away the guessing; it gives us hard evidence on how to engineer and determine where we need to place wireless access coverage or points for optimal coverage."
"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."
"Overall, the majority of their support engineers are exceptional, especially when it comes to being able to react or assist us on something that's extremely critical through an ongoing project for us."
"In deploying WebAnalyzer, I was able to monitor two key applications that were hosted externally."
 

Cons

"I would say some of our newer techs that are going out to job sites can be a little bit intimidated by the interface."
"When you conduct an active survey and then want to use it for design work, it's actually not very useful."
"If you don't have very much practice with it, it is difficult to troubleshoot."
"The moment we began needing more of the vendor's support, the cost became very high; we switched to another solution."
"Often, AirMagnet will crash and you will have to reboot your laptop or tablet to start it again. Data will be lost if you haven’t saved it."
"I would just like to see integration of more wireless cards to have a broader group of cards you could use, instead of just a couple of specific ones."
"It has not been entirely stable."
"Nowadays, it almost seems like you can get by without having to purchase the software and have somebody run the scan."
"Clients are manually installed. This makes mass deployments impossible."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is an annual cost of the solution. There are some additional charges, such as support and maintenance."
"For technical support, you need an annual license, but it is not worth it."
"The tool's pricing is medium."
"This product is very expensive."
"The moment we began needing more of the vendor's support, the cost became very high; we switched to another solution."
"The licensing of AirMagnet Survey is different when compared to Ekahu. It is a third of the cost of Ekahau but there are no dedicated laptops to the Sidekick. AirMagnet allows you to license an adapter and share that adapter."
"The pricing needs improvement."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
9%
Construction Company
7%
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Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise10
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