Alfa AWUS050NH USB

[xovian]

Hey everyone,

Since no one on this forum has posted anything about the new Alfa AWUS050NH, I'll ask away. I read RE@LITY's post about the Alfa AWUS036-S and he mentioned it was a good one to get, but I was reading up on some of the latest news and found that the new Alfa AWUS050NH came out this month. Does anyone recommend this one?

Will it work with backtrack 3 or 4 and will it do injections and will it work with VM Ware? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[balding_parrot]

It would really help us to answer this if you provided all the specs of this card.

I seriously doubt anyone is going to spend time doing the grunt work getting that info just so as they can answer your question.

Form factor
chipset
power
fcc-id
link to the manufacturers datasheet

all would be helpful

[xovian]

I hope this helps.

The AWUS050NH IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless USB adapter provides users to launch IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network at 150/300 Mbps in the 2.4GHz/5.8GHz band, which is also compatible with IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless devices at 11/54 Mbps. You can configure AWUS050NH with ad-hoc mode to connect to other 2.4GHz/5.8GHz wireless computers, or with Infrastructure mode to connect to a wireless AP or Router for accessing to Internet.
AWUS050NH includes a convenient Utility for scanning available networks and saving preferred networks that users usually connected with. Security encryption can also be configured by this utility.

Features:
Compatible with IEEE 802.11n draft 3.0, 802.11a/b/g wireless standards
2.4GHz and 5.8GHz frequency band, MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output)
Complies with Universal Serial Bus Rev. 2.0 specifications
High speed transfer TX data rate up to 150 Mbps
High speed transfer RX data rate up to 300 Mbps
Supports WPS by S/W
Supports wireless data encryption with 64/128-bit WEP, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES
Wide Range coverage
Compliant with FCC Part 15.247 for US, ETS 300 328 for Europe
Supports driver for Windows 2000, XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, and Linux (2.4.x/2.6.x), and Mac (10.4.x/10.5.x) Power PC& PC.

Specifications
Category Item Description
Standards Wireless: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
USB 2.0 standard
Data Rate 802.11b: Up to 11 Mbps
802.11g: 54Mbps
802.11n: 108Mbps

Product General
Dimension 83x56mm
Interface Mini USB connector

Physical Spec.
Antenna Type 1 X 2.4/5GGHz SMA connecter and patch x1
One LED Power/Status: steady green
Wireless act: flash
Frequency
Range 2412 ~ 2462 MHz (N.A) 2412 ~ 2472`MHz (EU) 2412 ~ 2482`MHz (Japan)

IEEE802.11a: 5150 MHz – 5250 MHz (Japan) 5150 MHz – 5350 MHz / 5470 MHz－5725 MHz (Europe) 5150 MHz – 5350 MHz / 5725 MHz－5850 MHz (USA) 2412 ~ 2484 MHz (Japan)

Hardware
Opt. Channel 1 ~ 11 channels (North America), 1 ~ 13 channels (General Europe), 1 ~ 14 channels (Japan)
IEEE802.11a 4 Channels (Japan), 19 Channels (Europe), 13 Channels (USA)

Emission Type DSSS / OFDM
Output Power
@6Mbps/1mbps 27dBm@ 11b/g, 21dbm@ 11bgn HT20, 20dbm@ 11bgn HT40

22dbm@ 11a -, 13dbm@11a HT20-(14dbm), 14dbm@11a HT40-(13dbm)

[hebeda]

ok here are some facts:

Ralink RT2770F Chipset , 1x TX 2x RX , one internal antenna, one external antenna
maximum TX power:
500mW at 2.4ghz
150mW at 5ghz
Pink/blue LED light (kiddi-disco )
usb windows mount is included in the package ...

comes with a Dualband Antenna !

and this is really important: if you switch the antennas YOU MUST USE THE RIGHT ANTENNA ! if you use 5ghz , DONT use a 2.4ghz antenna ... it may destroy the device on the long run ...
for 5ghz operation use either an dualband antenna or a 5ghz antenna !

I have send a factory sample to max from the backtrack developer team end of february, it should work with backtrack4 beta already or will work very soon ...

for a manufacturer datasheet see below, some minor errors edited

i am not allowed to post the links directly due to my low message count

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[xovian]

Does this mean I cannot use this usb card with my 24dBi yagi antenna? Someone please let me know about this.

[hebeda]

you can use the card with 24dbi yagi, but only in 2.4ghz mode !!

if you want to use 5ghz mode, you need a new 5ghz antenna !!! and these are much more expensive, because a 5ghz antenna is not easy to make in the backyard .... like most 2.4ghz antennas available ...

[xovian]

The link below was the yagi antenna I was going to get but I wanted to know if its possible to switch their usb card and replace it with the AWUS050NH.

hxxp://cgi.ebay.ca/USB-high-dbi-Yagi-Antenna-802-11-Wireless-Wifi-2-4ghz_W0QQitemZ170315085606QQihZ007QQcategoryZ74954 QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262 ?_trksid=p1742.m153.l1262

Again, sorry for so many questions, I just want to make sure I get the right equipment the first time.

[-AbC-]

Hi,
is this card compatible now ?
Somebody already tested it ?

[xovian]

I heard it runs in backtrack 3...but I do not know the results? Like is it really good compared to others?

I hope someone has one of these to tell us.

[-AbC-]

perhaps interesting ....both topics same subject ...but perhaps u don't have seen it
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replace xx with tt and remove space ....