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I understand that considerations below might not necessary be of importance for everybody, however since I owe this card I thought I share few of my own experiences with it. | I understand that considerations below might not necessary be of importance for everybody, however since I owe this card I thought I share few of my own experiences with it. | ||
Card: | Card: | ||
| − | + | 1) lacks promiscuous mode sniffing capability in Windows (which I feel is must for most network techs and security oriented people). | |
| − | + | 2) does not work with aircrack tools | |
| − | + | 3) in order to see what is current signal strength it is necessary to hover mouse over icon on taskbar and read info from pop-up baloon (bit irritating). Strengths are shown as “Good”, “Fair”, “Poor” etc. I feel much preferable way of displaying signal strength is to present users with dynamically changing visual meter in card utility, which show signal in decibels as oppose to say “Fair” - God knows what and how many db. | |
| − | + | 4) to see what type of encryption network use (as visible in all networks view) in cards utility, it is necessary to hover mouse over a network name and read info from pop-up balloon (irritating again). | |
| − | + | 5) values from network properties as MAC for instance cannot be copied to clipboard. | |
| − | + | 6) to my knowledge it is not possible once card is installed, to disable cards connection managing utility and allow Window to manage wireless connections. | |
Revision as of 05:47, 19 December 2007
Sharing experience
I understand that considerations below might not necessary be of importance for everybody, however since I owe this card I thought I share few of my own experiences with it. Card: 1) lacks promiscuous mode sniffing capability in Windows (which I feel is must for most network techs and security oriented people). 2) does not work with aircrack tools 3) in order to see what is current signal strength it is necessary to hover mouse over icon on taskbar and read info from pop-up baloon (bit irritating). Strengths are shown as “Good”, “Fair”, “Poor” etc. I feel much preferable way of displaying signal strength is to present users with dynamically changing visual meter in card utility, which show signal in decibels as oppose to say “Fair” - God knows what and how many db. 4) to see what type of encryption network use (as visible in all networks view) in cards utility, it is necessary to hover mouse over a network name and read info from pop-up balloon (irritating again). 5) values from network properties as MAC for instance cannot be copied to clipboard. 6) to my knowledge it is not possible once card is installed, to disable cards connection managing utility and allow Window to manage wireless connections.
