Which Alfa Network Adapter to buy for RASPBERRY Pi3 ? Monitor Mode, Packet Injection

[deady1000]

Dear community,

Last week I bought the AWUS036ACH for my RaspberryPi3 to find out that it is not compatible concerning "monitor mode".
Diver installation was the worst experience I have ever had and in my opinion this adapter is just not implemented well for Raspi.
Unfortunately it looked like it was the best adapter you could get because it supports 2.4 + 5 GHz and the range was INCREDIBLE.
I found like 25 other accesspoints in my building (high-rise).
But this is useless when the driver does not work properly and you can't activate monitor mode and use it for kali-stuff.

So I will return this adapter and buy a new one.

Which should I buy? I have no problems with Alfa Network but I will never buy chipset RTL8812AU for my Raspberry again.
Next adapter MUST have:

- FULL support for RaspberryPi3 <-- MOST IMPORTANT
- monitor mode
- good range
- packet injection (?)
- size does not matter

Can you help me with that?
I know a shop where they sell:

AWUS036NEH
AWUS036NHA
AWUS036NHV
AWUS036NHR
AWUS052NH
AWUS036AC
AWUS036ACH (does not work here)
AWUS1900

Do you know others?

Thank you!!
Cheers

[re4son]

I'm using the AWUS051NH v.2
Tested on RPi0, RPi2 & RPi3 without any issues.
Supports monitor mode & injection and has excellent range

[deady1000]

I'm using the AWUS051NH v.2
Tested on RPi0, RPi2 & RPi3 without any issues.
Supports monitor mode & injection and has excellent range

Thank you for your answer! You helped me!

What do you think about AWUS052NH ?
Currently there is no shop I know who sells AWUS051NH v.2.

Thanks again

[dragolea]

Hello.
I have bought AWUS036ACH.
It support injection,monitor mode,2.4 and 5 Ghz..
I do not now if it will work so good with the Rasp3.....but i can say...with Kali should work fine..(hope in 1..2..weeks the KAli developers will give full support)
I have it for 3 days,and I was not able to make it work,with all that youtube tutorials and stuff.
Hope you will find the Adapter that is wright for you>
Cheers.

[re4son]

AWUS052NH should work - it has the same chipset. I haven't tested it though.

I've just tested the AWUS036NHA and that one purrs like a kitten, too. I've got 5 more adapters ordered for testing but so far I can confirm that the ones on this list work like a charm:
https://whitedome.com.au/re4son/topi...-wifi-adapters

[deady1000]

AWUS052NH should work - it has the same chipset. I haven't tested it though.

I've just tested the AWUS036NHA and that one purrs like a kitten, too. I've got 5 more adapters ordered for testing but so far I can confirm that the ones on this list work like a charm:
https://whitedome.com.au/re4son/topi...-wifi-adapters

Awesome work re4son. Thank you!
Yesterday I ordered the AWUS052NH.

I also contacted ALFA Tech Support and they replied me very fast:

Hi ,

Thanks for you interest in our product

About the AWUS036ACH installing on Raspberry Pi

Install git

(sudo) apt install git

Install kernel headers
(sudo) apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers

DRV_NAME=rtl8812AU
DRV_VERSION=4.3.14
mkdir /usr/src/${DRV_NAME}-${DRV_VERSION}
git archive driver-${DRV_VERSION} | tar -x -C /usr/src/${DRV_NAME}-${DRV_VERSION}
dkms add -m ${DRV_NAME} -v ${DRV_VERSION} dkms build -m ${DRV_NAME} -v ${DRV_VERSION} dkms install -m ${DRV_NAME} -v ${DRV_VERSION}



AWUS051NH V2(11n 1X1) and AWUS052NH(11n 2X2) used the same IC chipset,

Sincerely,
##### ########
ALFA Tech Support

I could not test this because I already returned it but I hope it helps people who bought the AWUS036ACH.
I'll inform you about the AWUS052NH when its here.

Thanks again!

[deady1000]

AWUS052NH

It's here and it works .
Plug-n-Play, monitor-mode, packet injection, incredible range.
I recommend this adapter for every raspberry-user.

Thanks a lot!