recommeded PCMCIA wireless card for rfmon

3 Feb 2005 7:26 AM

Spam Decoy

I've heard the Cisco Aironet line and Prism2-based cards support rfmon.
Are there specific models or other brands that might be better than
others? I'm looking to use Kisment and other similar utilities for
wireless monitoring and diagnostics on a/b/g networks.

Your recommendations are appreciated. Thanks!!!

5 Feb 2005 1:14 PM

mikep187

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:26:54 -0600, Spam Decoy
<spmdecoy2***@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I've heard the Cisco Aironet line and Prism2-based cards support rfmon.
>Are there specific models or other brands that might be better than
>others? I'm looking to use Kisment and other similar utilities for
>wireless monitoring and diagnostics on a/b/g networks.
>
>Your recommendations are appreciated. Thanks!!!

Go with an Orinoco gold card. Make sure you get a real Orinoco gold
card not a relabled card that claims to be a Orinoco (The relabeled
cards are all over ebay). At least the one I got was junk and wouldn't
go into monitor mode, and had terrible range.

6 Feb 2005 2:24 AM

Cisco kid

I switched from a card "linksys 54GS " to the 54G USB cable setup. More than double the signal strength with a bit of directional control. Almost the same weight as the card. $59 -- Cisco kid brought to you by http://www.wifi-forum.com/

7 Feb 2005 8:53 PM

no.one

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:24:24 GMT, Cisco kid
<Cisco.kid.1k0frn@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:

>
>I switched from a card "linksys 54GS " to the 54G USB cable setup. More
>than double the signal strength with a bit of directional control.
>Almost the same weight as the card. $59

Great idea... but my old subnotebook is USB1, not USB2, so throughput speed
would really suffer.

7 Feb 2005 10:19 PM

dold

no.***@no.gov wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:24:24 GMT, Cisco kid
> <Cisco.kid.1k0frn@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:

>>
>>I switched from a card "linksys 54GS " to the 54G USB cable setup. More
>>than double the signal strength with a bit of directional control.
>>Almost the same weight as the card. $59

> Great idea... but my old subnotebook is USB1, not USB2, so throughput speed
> would really suffer.

Maybe, maybe not.
USB 1.1 happens to parallel the throughput of 802.11b, but that still
exceeds most people's connection to the internet.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

7 Feb 2005 7:53 PM

David Boyer

Is the Orinoco Gold just an 802.11b card?

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> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:26:54 -0600, Spam Decoy
> <spmdecoy2***@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I've heard the Cisco Aironet line and Prism2-based cards support rfmon.
>>Are there specific models or other brands that might be better than
>>others? I'm looking to use Kisment and other similar utilities for
>>wireless monitoring and diagnostics on a/b/g networks.
>>
>>Your recommendations are appreciated. Thanks!!!
>
> Go with an Orinoco gold card. Make sure you get a real Orinoco gold
> card not a relabled card that claims to be a Orinoco (The relabeled
> cards are all over ebay). At least the one I got was junk and wouldn't
> go into monitor mode, and had terrible range.