Ekahau Site Survey Reviews

When you have a new site to plan, with ESS you can easily create a good plan to begin to understand the solution and the challenges. This way, you can create a Bill of Materials to buy what will work for your business requirements.

With ESS, we were able to understand what will be necessary to create a plan to support the company headquarters building with more than 2000 people in a high-density environment.

Today, ESS doesn't support mixed outdoor-indoor environments. We have port and railroad environments that can't be created and exported to the WiFi management solution because ESS can´t support it.

In the ESS, we don't have an easy way to select access points and then select an external antenna for it. This is a very common situation when you are testing what could be the best solution for an environment.

Anther important point is that Ekahau Mobile doesn't have GPS support. We can't do outdoor site surveys as easily as we can in the ESS.

I have worked with Ekahau since I was a Nortel Network Pre-sales Engineer, that is, more than 10 years.

I have not encountered any deployment issues.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

For some operations, such as report generation, it requires a lot memory (more than 16GB RAM).

Customer service provides fast answers.

Sometimes, it takes technical support time to understand a new feature request.

We previously we worked on a project with AirMagnet Survey. This tool was provided by the company that was supporting us on the project.

Initial setup was easy but only with the training course it was possible to get all of the tool's potential.

Implementation was done by an in-house team.

The ROI was quick because we can save money doing it ourselves and we could develop internal knowledge.

This is a professional solution that can be very useful for planning and troubleshooting, but it is not cheap. It can make sense when you are a WiFi Engineering Company or you have médium-large WiFi environments.

For small environments, I recommend Ekahau Mobile.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

I use the solution for conducting surveys of large-scale businesses and healthcare institutes.

The solution is a reliable survey application.

Presently, we can only integrate the solution with Mac OS. It has been costly for us and affects the decision process too. They should provide integration with Windows as well.

I have been using the solution for two and a half years.

It is a very stable solution.

The solution's support team works well.

Neutral

The solution's initial setup was straightforward. It took 30 minutes for the process to complete.

We took help from a third-party vendor to implement the solution.

The solution is less costly than iBwave. You need to buy a separate license per user. The additional costs are based on the use cases.

I advise others to learn about the different functions of wired and wireless versions of the solution. Also, it would help if they installed the solution on an iPad Pro with a LiDAR scanner for autopilot feature to run smoothly.

I rate the solution as a seven.

This product is used to conduct Wi-Fi site surveys.

We are satisfied with the way this product is working.

The support is an area in need of improvement.

In the next release, I would like to see a legend that shows the capacities.

We have had a couple of issues in the past 12 months, but they have been resolved and at this time, it seems okay.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use the solution for Wi-Fi validation, signal analysis, and maps.

The solution is user-friendly and it provides a good output that can be measured, and I can describe and pinpoint any inaccuracy shortfalls.

The report generation has room for improvement and is missing small details.

I have been using the solution for a couple of years.

I give the stability an eight out of ten.

I give the scalability an eight out of ten. When the license is being used on the accounting side the solution is occupied and we have to wait to generate the report we require. In order to avoid waiting an additional license is required to run both functions at once.

The initial setup is straightforward. We only need to import the cache and restart it.

The implementation is completed in-house.

I give the solution a seven out of ten.

Ekahau Site Survey is fast and reliable. I recommend the solution to others.

I use Ekahau Site Survey for heat mapping wireless coverage.

Ekahau lets you create heat maps without doing the initial survey. It makes the task easier. 

When a version goes out of support, sometimes the newer version isn't already available. There should be an option to import, and maybe access points can be added to the other version as well. 

Most features are there, but the network adapter support should be better. Ekahau should support all laptops and versions. There's an issue with the driver too.

I've used Ekahau for the last two years.

Installing Ekahau is straightforward. You install it on a Windows machine, and that's it.

I did the installation by myself.

The pricing is quite expensive. Not all companies can afford it

I've tried NetScout and Acrylic. We're comparing them, and we'll buy them if they meet our needs.

I rate Ekahau Site Survey eight out of 10. Go for it if you can afford it.

• Planning.
• "What-if" scenarios.
• Spectrum analyzer integration allows reviewing measurements on the survey paths.
• iPerf integration allows conducting a throughput continuous test along the survey path.

Planning design allows us to provide faster quotes to the customer. We take a safety margin but in the end, we are very close to the quote and we save time and travel.

The SpecAn and the throughput data: We include them in the survey report that we give to the customer. That's a great added-value compared to what we were doing before. Also, during the project closure meeting, we can show all the recorded survey data and it supports our recommendations to the customers.

I wish we could have an "offline" version of Ekahau in order to give the customer some kind of interactive report where he could find all the measured values.

What I mean is that today, we can only give the customer a PDF or paper report. So they can't see detailed values as when you move the mouse over an AP. I expect to give the customer a kind of read-only file where he could explore the site survey.

I have used it for five years.

We have not encountered any deployment issues. Deployment is smooth and easy, in less than 10 minutes of time.

We did encounter stability issues with a previous version. The customer support team took my case with a very high priority and a few days later, a patch was released. Our current version is very stable.

We have not encountered any scalability issues, compared to my first years of use; I've added the SpecAn feature, the GPS.

New APs are added regularly for the predictive feature.

N/A: Initial purchase and yearly renewal are made through a reseller.

Technical support is 10/10. They're fast to answer and solve your issue.

We previously used AirMagnet some years ago. We changed because of the slowness of the software.

Initial setup is straightforward. The only option is for the GPS feature. When starting ESS for the first time, you need an internet connection to validate the licence.

An in-house team implemented it.

Choose the PRO + Spectrum version. The Basic version doesn't have the planning features.

It's a great product; regular updates make it dynamic and bring us new possibilities.

• Importing DXF/DWG floor plans
• Autoplanner
• Customizable report templates

Importing more than 200 floor plans of 50 buildings has been easily accomplished because layers could be deselected before importing.

The Autoplanner feature gave us the opportunity to sketch a channel grid as well as the raw placements of access points.

It provides easy reporting using our own report templates.

• Batch reporting for large projects with many project files

I have used it since 2008.

Technical support is excellent; quick feedback and appropriate solutions.

Setup is done very easily.

If in doubt, buy the Professional Edition to have all features activated (e.g., 3D planning). Have NIC-300 USB stick (multiple NICs recommended for several measurements in parallel) as well. Otherwise, you will not have the opportunity to measure SNR.

Before choosing this product, we also evaluated AirMagnet and NetPlanner.

From my experience, Ekauhau has always been very interested in improving their software by listening to users' demands and requirements. From my point of view, they successfully ease the complex process of designing wireless LAN on a professional level.

The scalability of the solution is good.

I am having problems importing maps to Ekahau Site Survey. Importing is one of the first steps in using the solution and it is getting stuck. The problem could be that our maps are large with many layers.

I have been using Ekahau Site Survey for approximately one month.

I rate the stability of the Ekahau Site Survey a six out of ten.

Ekahau Site Survey is scalable.

In my company, my network team of less than 10 is using the solution.

We have had a problem with the solution and the support has not figured out how to solve it.

The initial setup of the Ekahau Site Survey is easy.

I rate Ekahau Site Survey a seven out of ten.