8/11/2023 0 Comments Fluke network inspector key![]() I queried MetaGeek technical trainer Joel Crane to make sure I had my story straight, as MetaCare is one of those things you refresh periodically so it’s easy to lose sight of the value proposition. I decided to write it after my latest renewal of MetaCare to help other MetaGeek customers (and potential customers) understand what MetaCare is all about. So… is this blog a MetaGeek commercial? I guess you could say so to a certain degree. Go to any WLAN conference or watch the typical wireless professional at work, and you’ll see lots of MetaGeek products in play. I still have my original Wi-Spy USB-based Wi-Fi spectrum analyzer dongle that I used a million years ago when 2.4 GHz was the only band in town, but have also added almost every other tool that MetaGeek offers. Among these are the various offerings by MetaGeek. To the WLAN support community, there are just a few tools that are truly revered. Why You Should Care About MetaGeek’s MetaCare This entry was posted in Mobility Field Day, NetAlly, Network Tester, Troubleshooting, Wi-Fi, Wireless Networking, WLAN tools and tagged #MFD4, Wi-Fi tools, WLAN tools on Decemby wirednot. I have no doubt that the enhancements are only just beginning on NetAlly’s flagship tester. Grass has never grown under this family of testers, and now NetAlly brings us a bag o’ new capabilities in 1.1 as detailed here: EtherScope nXG v1.1 Release Notes – Final. Now, NetAlly has announced version 1.1 code for the EtherScope nXG.Īnd so the cycle we got used to with Fluke Networks and then NETSCOUT continues- where good products get better with frequent updates and nice adds/enhancements. ![]() It’s still impressive, but no longer feels exotic. NetAlly doesn’t feel so new to the tongue anymore, and the EtherScopenXG has already become a trusted friend… a go-to force multiplier for my initial wired and wireless network issues and questions. Yet that old insidious change effect has already settled in. It’s only been around 100 days or so since NetAlly has been a company, and I’ve barely had the EtherScope nXG in hand for maybe 65 of those days. (I wrote about the new tester here, and my fellow Field Day delegate Haydn Andrews provided some thoughts as well). ![]() As I bang this blog out, I’m looking at the AirCheck and Link Runner G2s on my desk, along with the NetAlly flagship EtherScope nXG. I trust you all remember the big news at Mobility Field Day 4… That was in August, and as I write this it’s December of 2019- only a few months into NetAlly’s existence. This time the color survived the corporate metamorphosis, but a new logo would end up on our tools as NetAlly was born as a spin-off from NetScout. Daily use, occasional system updates, lots of problems solved… life simply went on- for a while.īut more change is inevitable, and a few months ago it hit again for these handy hand-helds. The old favorites were superseded by G2 versions of both the LinkRunner and the AirCheck with updated capabilities, and we all also got used to that paradigm. Pair that with the original yellow LinkRunner for wired networks and you were equipped for just about anything you needed to do for daily support of LAN/WLAN environments.īut yellow became green, and that part of Fluke Networks became Netscout. Remember back to the beloved original yellow AirCheck from Fluke Networks? For awhile it was the handheld tester of choice for WLAN professionals, and it built on Fluke Networks’ strength in putting huge amounts of testing and characterization capabilities in palm-friendly devices. It’s curious how we get accustomed to change, and how that which has changed suddenly feels normal.
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