Re: buying an alfa

I got the ALFA last week. Don't know about the performance of a 9dbi
but the one that comes with the ALFA 9dbi works very good.
Unfortunately I have a hard time with the drivers. It works in
monitoring mode for less then one minute and stop. I have to loop
'iwconfig wlna0 mode monitor channel #' so I can keep it working. My
configuration is:
OS: Linux ubuntu-35 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC
2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Driver: rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006
Patch: rtl8187_2.6.20v3.patch   


On 03/05/07, Robin Wood <dninja-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm looking at buying an alfa and the shop that has them also has some
> 9dbi antennas going cheap but the guy selling them says that the
> antenna doesn't give that much extra performance to the alfa.
>
> Logic says that it should boost the power to equivalent of 4W (500mW *
> 2 * 2 * 2 by rough RF Maths).
>
> Can anyone comment? I'm looking to buy tomorrow to get it for the
> weekend so even any quick comments would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robin


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