[Don't Know What Wireless Adapter To Buy.]

Just out of curiosity are you able to do packet monitoring and packet injecting as well.

Because if you can I might buy one of yours.

Packet injecting yes, I have not tried packet monitoring, only so far WEP and WPA2. Let me figure out how to packet monitor and let you know.

[Don't Know What Wireless Adapter To Buy.]

Update: Received my AWUS036NH, works out of the box with Win7 and Backtrack 4 R1, no drivers or updates. :)

[Don't Know What Wireless Adapter To Buy.]

I would buy both of them to be honest. The second one offers the speed, it has dual bands 2.4/5ghz, it supports all the latest wireless standards, 802.11a/b/g/n.

On the other hand, the AWUS036NH offers 2 watts of power, very handy if you want to get stronger signals. However its support dual bands and supports all the standards, this adapter is not as fast as the AWUS051NH, since it can only go up to 150Mbps.

I would do that because 2nd wireless card would come in handy for my other PC, but I just bought a 1.5 TB harddrive today =/.

After a lot of reading I am going to get the AWUS036NH, some people say Backtrack 4 R1 supposedly is out of the box support for it, AWUS036H is potentially half the power, and I can not find any info on AWUS051NH.

[Don't Know What Wireless Adapter To Buy.]

If you want to do wireless pen-testing, you should definitely go with an Alfa wireless cards. They are the best in the business. They may cost a little but, you get what you pay for.

Darren uses the Alfa AWUS036H and if you want, you can upgrade it to a 1watt, very good if you are far apart from the wireless access point.

I don't know anything about wireless cards btw, I am just reading numbers here.

I am looking at Alfas website.

AWUS036H (Upgrade to 1Watt) 802.11b: UP to 11Mbps 802.11g: 54Mbps.

AWUS036NH, 2watt 802.11b: UP to 11Mbps 802.11g: UP to54Mbps 802.11n: UP to 150Mbps

AWUS051NH 802.11b: Up to 11 Mbps 802.11g: 54Mbps 802.11n: 300Mbps

I don't really know what to look for in a wireless device for penetration testing (guess thats the word for it), need it to have long range, good signal, and for my own network fast network speed for file transfer.

I also see options to get a +9dBi antenna, from what I read is that it increases range at a cost of noise?

Not exactly sure which one to buy.

[Don't Know What Wireless Adapter To Buy.]

I did a search and I found most of them pointing to Alfa adapters, a lot of mixed information on 2-3 models of the adapters.

Wireless hacking is what I am going to use it for now, I will be interested in using it for other things.

My laptops got a 4965 and anyone who has this one knows about it, is you need to fake authenticate with wpa_supplicant, and pretty much only thing you can hack is WEP encryption anything else is impossible.

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I maybe be too drunk right now but that was so funny/cute!