![]() The “Learn” screen has also been streamlined to show more relevant information based on the user customizations. Upon launching inSSIDer 3, the first thing you’ll notice is that “Customize inSSIDer” options allowing you to specify your expertise level and your location type (home, office, school). ![]() Given these statistics we decided it was time to rethink inSSIDer and design it from the ground up with the goal of helping users improve their Wi-Fi quickly and easily, while providing education on Wi-Fi best practices. Over 80% of users identify their Wi-Fi skill level as beginner or intermediate, yet over 30% say Wi-Fi is critical and troubleshoot Wi-Fi at least monthly. Today about 90% of users use inSSIDer to help improve their personal home Wi-Fi. Since then some colors have changed and we’ve added GPS logging, but the overall design of inSSIDer hasn’t changed very much. The Channels View was introduced in inSSIDer 1.1 and was heavily influenced by our Chanalyzer application. The original inSSIDer design was influenced by Netstumbler, which was mainly used for wardriving. ![]() InSSIDer started getting noticed by places like Tekzilla and Network World and after 14 months it reached 100,000 downloads! Since then it has steadily gained popularity and has now been downloaded 8 million times and has almost 40,000 users every day! We built inSSIDer at the same time that we were building Wi-Fi scanning into Chanalyzer and released inSSIDer 1.0 in January 2008 (Chanalyzer didn’t get Wi-Fi scanning for another six months). Being a tiny company with a very limited marketing budget, we decided that creating a free Wi-Fi scanner to replace Netstumbler would get us more awareness than any advertising would. We decided to build Wi-Fi scanning into our Chanalyzer software, so that it would show RF spectrum data from Wi-Spy *and* list all of the nearby Wi-Fi networks. At that time Chanalyzer only showed spectrum data, no Wi-Fi information at all, which meant you had to use a separate tool to get a list of Wi-Fi networks while troubleshooting with Wi-Spy, and with Netstumbler development stopped, this was starting to become a problem for our customers. ![]() Netstumbler was still the most popular Wi-Fi scanner, but the developer hadn’t worked on it since 2005, so it had issues on 64-bit Windows XP and on Windows Vista. Work on inSSIDer began back in 2007 when MetaGeek was still a tiny company of four people, and we had just created Wi-Spy 2.4x. Many of you may not know the history of inSSIDer and how it came to be created. ![]()
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