Select your floor plan

First, open the heat map builder by taping on the map icon.
Now, you need to import your floor plan, by choosing a picture in the Photos app of your device.
Since you have not selected any target to take throughput measures, you get the following notification message:

Come back here after having started a TCP Flood Chargen action on a target (download speed testing). The target must remain the same until the heat map is built. to estimate the Wi-Fi internal throughput between local hosts, either select a target on the local wired network, or select a wirelessly connected target that is as close as possible to an access point, for instance using another iOS device running this app; to estimate the Internet throughput for various locations on your local Wi-Fi network, select a target in the Internet, like flood.eowyn.eu.org.

Read the next section to understand what this notification means.

Plan your coverage study

Network 3D WiFi Tools needs to connect to a CHARGEN or DISCARD server to receive (CHARGEN) or send (DISCARD) packets, in order to get measures of the incoming (if receiving packets) or outgoing (if sending packets) throughput. After each measurement, you need to move to another location, to take another measurement at this new location on your floor plan. After having taken a set of 5 to 10 measurements, depending on the size of the area you are aiming to map, you will get an accurate heat map of your WiFi coverage.

Choosing the server is really important because it can impact the measures. Here are some alternatives:

• you can choose a CHARGEN/DISCARD server on the Internet. The one provided for WiFi Heat Map users is named flood.eowyn.eu.org:
  Nevertheless, it's better to use a local server. The Internet is a high performances but not reliable data communication layer. There is no Quality of Service on the Internet, and this is why it is great: no one gets more bandwidth than the others. But to measure the performances of your local network, it is counterproductive to use a server on the Internet: adding the Internet jitter to your local network jitter is not the best way to get highly accurate measurements. This is the hassle that most of the speed test services on the Internet are faced to, and this is why they only take measurements at low frequency rates, computing averages over one or two minutes for each estimated value. On the contrary, installing Network 3D WiFi Tools on two devices connected to the same local network lets you take local measurements.
  
  Therefore, here are some examples of using another device running Network 3D WiFi Tools in foreground as a local CHARGEN/DISCARD server:

  
  

• the server is another iPhone or iPad connected to the same WiFi network, also running Network 3D WiFi Tools in foreground and located as close as possible to a wireless Access Point. Note in the following picture that the server device, an iPhone, notifies with the red bar at the bottom of the screen that some other device running Network 3D WiFi Tools is communicating with it to take measurements:
  

• the server is another iPhone or iPad, also running Network 3D WiFi Tools in foreground and connected to a wired network switched to your WiFi network, with an Ethernet/USB dongle (again, note the red bar at the bottom of the screen notifying that this device is used as a server by another device also running Network 3D WiFi Tools):
  

• the server is a Mac computer with Apple silicon SoC running Network 3D WiFi Tools (in foreground or background), either directly connected to the WiFi network (and located as close as possible to a WiFi access point), or connected to a wired network switched with the WiFi network:
  

Connect to the server

We have chosen a server during the previous steps. Now, find this server in the section named Chargen Discard services of the home screen of WiFi Map Explorer. In this section, you will always find flood.eowyn.eu.org, and in case you would have started Network 3D WiFi Tools in the foreground on another local device (iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac silicon), you would also find this device in the same section. In the following example, we choose flood.eowyn.eu.org, since we do not have another Apple device connected to our local network:

Come back to the heat map

You have now started data download (CHARGEN) or upload (DISCARD) between your device and a local or remote server. This is the time to come back to the heat map builder. Press Back at the top of the screen and tap on the map icon. As you can see, the notification starting with Come back here after having started a TCP Flood Chargen... has disappeared. In the next section, we will see how to take measurements.

Take measurements

To take a measurement, move to a different location, tap on Add new probe, tap on the screen to identify your location on the floor plan and when the throughput is stabilized, tap on Save measure:

Let's take two other measurements:

• move to another location, tap on Add new probe, tap on the screen to identify your location on the floor plan and when the throughput is stabilized, tap on Save measure.
  
• again, move to another location, tap on Add new probe, tap on the screen to identify your location on the floor plan and when the throughput is stabilized, tap on Save measure.
  

After each recording of a measurement, the heat map will be consequentely updated. You will need measurements in 5 to 10 locations, depending on the size and the shape of the area you are aiming to map, to obtain an accurate heat map of your WiFi coverage.

Server connection lost

If the server connection is lost, for instance because you moved outside of the area covered by WiFi, the initial notification message appears again. You just need to restart this connection: tap on Hide map, select the target IP, tap on TCP flood chargen or TCP flood discard, tap on Back and finally tap on the map icon.

Export the heat map

When you are done with at least 3 measurements, you can save the heat map at the original floor plan resolution in the Photos app of your device: just tap on Share your map. This may take up to one or two minutes, depending on the floor plan original resolution.