Skip to content

Ekahau HeatMapper vs reaver

A side-by-side look at Ekahau HeatMapper and reaver. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Ekahau HeatMapper

Ekahau HeatMapper

Network & Admin

Ekahau HeatMapper is a Wi-Fi planning and survey software tool used to analyze Wi-Fi signal coverage and create heatmaps. It helps optimize access point placement for maximum Wi-Fi coverage and performance.

wifinetwork-planningheatmapsaccess-point-optimization
reaver

reaver

Security & Privacy

Reaver is an open source tool for exploiting weaknesses in Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases. It is designed to brute force the WPS PIN and revert the access point's settings back to factory defaults.

wifiwpsbrute-forcepassword-recovery