Chino Hills, CA — August 7th, 2012 – Amped Wireless, the leading manufacturer of high-power, long-range wireless communications products for the home and office, today announced a strategic partnership with MetaGeek, a Boise, Idaho based wireless visualization tool development company. This partnership enables Amped Wireless to compliment and strengthen its current software infrastructure.

The relationship offers Amped Wireless the ability to bundle a free, easy-to-use, Windows based Wi-Fi Analytics Tool that optimizes Wi-Fi networks across all Amped Wireless products. This new tool, "The Amped Wireless Wi-Fi Analytics Tool for Windows", is based on MetaGeek’s popular inSSIDer that is designed to assist Wi-Fi users in optimizing their wireless network installation and performance.

"MetaGeek is known for engineering some of the industry’s best Wi-Fi software," stated Jason Owen, CEO of Amped Wireless. "We welcome this partnership as it will allow our customers a comprehensive offering of our software products. Now, consumers will have more flexibility to manage and optimize Wi-Fi networks to eliminate wireless dead spots, interference and increase overall performance."

"The Amped Wireless Wi-Fi Analytics Tool for Windows provides simple, visual, easy to understand information. The starting point for troubleshooting, Wi-Fi Analytics Tool for Windows is the first line of defense. It uses information from your computer's wireless network card and visualizes all the Wi-Fi networks around you," said Ryan Woodings, Chief Geek at MetaGeek. "We are excited to partner with Amped to provide their customers with our Wi-Fi tool. Their commitment to providing a great customer experience is something we are honored to help with."

The Amped Wireless Wi-Fi Analytics Tool for Windows provides advanced analysis of the Wi-Fi signal strength and interference for nearby Wi-Fi networks. The Wi-Fi Analytics Tool assists users in finding dead spots as well as the optimal location to install Amped Wireless routers, repeaters and adapters.

This new tool features:

• Wi-Fi Scanner: Scans and displays real-time information for nearby Wi-Fi networks including, hardware manufacturer, channel number, security type, signal strength (percentages and decibels) and more.
• Channel Graph: Visually displays and graphs nearby Wi-Fi networks based on their channel and signal strength in real-time.
• Time Graph: Visually displays and graphs the signal strength of all nearby Wi-Fi networks over time.
• Advanced Sorting: Filter results by Mac Address, SSID, Channel, RSSI and Time Last Seen.

For more information about Amped Wireless Wi-Fi Analytics Tool, please visit www.ampedwireless.com/wifianalytics.