Your MikroTik Router Knows a Lot. It Doesn’t Know What Your Clients Actually Get.
Neto is self-hosted, client-side WiFi monitoring built for budget-conscious IT teams and network admins. It runs on a small dedicated device, tests your 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands every 5 minutes, and shows you what a real client on the network experiences — not just what the router reports.
What Neto Actually Does
RouterOS gives you an excellent view of what’s happening at the router — Torch, the Bandwidth Test tool, the wireless registration table, interface counters. What it doesn’t give you is a continuous, historical record of what a device sitting in a specific room, on a specific band, actually experiences over time.
Neto fills that gap. It’s a small, self-hosted device that joins your WiFi like any other client — not a router plugin, not a MikroTik package, just another device on the network — and runs a full test cycle every 5 minutes, around the clock, on both bands independently.
MikroTik Router — your existing infrastructure, untouched
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├──► Laptops, phones, APs, everything else on the LAN
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└──► Neto — just another WiFi client, testing every 5 minutes
Neto connects to 2.4GHz, runs ping / speed / DNS / webpage-fetch / signal tests,
then reconnects to 5GHz and runs the same tests — back to back, continuously.
You view the results at neto.local:8080 from any browser on your LAN.
Where Router-Side Tools Fall Short
This isn’t a knock on RouterOS — Torch and the Bandwidth Test tool are genuinely useful for live, point-in-time diagnostics. They’re just answering a different question than the one that usually matters when someone says “the WiFi’s bad.”
| MikroTik’s built-in tools | Neto | |
|---|---|---|
| What it shows | Live snapshot, at the router, right now | Continuous history, from the client’s actual vantage point |
| Historical record | Not built in — you’re watching it happen live | Every test cycle logged, graphed from 1 hour to 7 days |
| Per-band comparison | Manual — check each interface separately | Automatic — 2.4GHz and 5GHz tested and logged independently every cycle |
| Client-side perspective | Sees the router’s side of the link | Sees exactly what a real client on that WiFi gets |
| Runs continuously unattended | You have to be watching Torch/Winbox | Yes — every 5 minutes, 24/7, no one needs to be looking |
What Gets Tested, Every 5 Minutes
Getting Started
No coding, no command line — setup is the same three steps whether you’re running a single office network or rolling it out across several sites.
Download the Neto disk image and write it to a microSD card with Raspberry Pi Imager or balenaEtcher. About 5 minutes.
Insert the card and power up the device. It boots automatically and creates a setup hotspot if there’s no ethernet connected.
Visit neto.local:8080 from any device on the network. A guided setup wizard handles the WiFi details — done in under 2 minutes.
Try It Before You Commit
Neto runs a free 30-day trial with full access to every feature — no credit card required. If you want to see it running against a live dual-band setup first, the public demo is always on.
Start your free trial
Same features as every paid plan — dual-band testing, spectrum analyser, full dashboard, 30 days of history.
Learn more at neto.network · Runs on Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4, 5, and Pi Zero 2 W
