Talk:Ipw4965

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: - lacks promiscuous mode sniffing capability in Windows (which I feel is must for most network techs and security oriented people). - does not work with aircrack tools - 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. - 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). - values from network properties as MAC for instance cannot be copied to clipboard. - to my knowledge it is not possible once card is installed, to disable cards connection managing utility and allow Window to manage wireless connections.