There is no real competitor at the moment when dealing with heatmapping a wireless network in a site survey. Alternatives like Air Magnet are nowhere near for now because of the stability of the program.

You need to know and understand Ekahau if you are a Wireless profesional even if you don't use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Memory utilization in version 10 increased in a big way, so when I only need a site survey I prefer to stay at version 9 since there is not a really big difference, my computer can run that without issues but running that in a surface pro is not as easy as before and some times not doable at all. Because of that, we need to have version 9 and version 10 at our PCs.

You can't use Ekahau Nics in MacOSX only the sidekick and bringing a sidekick is not always the best idea, so you need another PC with windows or install Windows natively if you plan to use Ekahay survey functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As long as you know how to walk a map you can do a Wireless site survey, no need to understand a whole lot, you just walk, click on the tool and as soon you are done walking the area someone with more experience in RF can review it. This makes this a great tool to train new engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Resource utilization went up significantly in version 10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can easily add multiple maps, start working in any of them and see exactly where you left and continue in the same spot since every path has a timestamp Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't open new version files if you have an older version so you need to update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can first walk the area if you don't have a measuring tool with you and later add the correct measurement this will not affect your data at all. The predictive design supports all the access points I work with. They release frequent updates keeping up with the latest models and technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, I use this in almost every project I have and this makes my job easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to use as long as you know what you are doing. Lots of options for interferers, wall types, access points and area options available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ekahau Cloud, we don't need it and we'll never use it but is part of the program now and not an optional feature to install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and before version 10 not too resource heavy, we normally run this on surface tablets for a site survey and they run smoothly unless the maps are above 20 megapixels or too many walks on the same map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since version 10 the resource usage increased a lot, we run version 9.3 in our tablets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can have multiple versions installed in Windows and Mac with the same license as long as you have it bonded to an external network card where the license is installed.

Good predictive support for a good array of vendors and Access point models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No support for NIC-300 on MacOSX

No retrocompatibility for new version designs even if you don't use the new features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.