Wow, I now understand why your card works so much better. That is one heck of an antenna! :)



Wow, I feel dumb now. That would definitely be the problem. I am the only laptop on my home...

Yes, this is what I have done. The wireless card that I am using is the D-Link DWA-125 which is an external USB card.

in iwconfig man, i can adjust the tx power, but this doesn't help anything when I am passively gathering packets.

Also, ignoring the problem won't help either because I'm trying to capture...

try airodump-ng

When I use my wireless card (D-Link DWA-125) with windows, the card gets a very strong signal from my router and many other signals from other routers around my neighborhood. Now on Backtrack 4, I...