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Re: buying an alfa: msg#00008

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Subject: Re: buying an alfa

witch one you bought it ?

On 5/3/07, Robin Wood <dninja-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've just committed and bought it anyway. Hopefully I'll get it
tomorrow and have the long bank holiday to play with it.

Robin

On 5/3/07, Ivan Davidkov
<ivan.davidkov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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