Antenna really works good and uses the Ralink RT3070 chipset.Has 4 half wave dipoles. Is sealed for outdoor use. Purchased two on ebay for $24.51 free postage. It shipped from California.
Windows 7 sucks have the correct usb driver and it will work. I use XP and linux and all my antennas work. 8.1 is even worst and to think 10 is being tested. --- Double Post Merged, 13 Jan 2015 --- Want to say I am a hardware guy and a radio man. Know what works.
I agree, in linux (kali) it works perfectly , I already tried a lot of solution and driver but nothing sames to work (win7)
What Ralink problems with Windows 7 specifically ? I don't see any, Windows 7 x64 Ultimate... In any case of problems with Windows 7 drivers the same trick can be used as AR9271 (Atheros) where you can force the XP drivers onto Windows 7 or XP64 in the case of Windows 7 x64. You don't have to use XP if the Win7 native drivers don't work. No need to go back to using crusty XP just to use drivers, just use the XP ones (same difference). I wouldn't recommend doing this on Windows 8 as they totally removed support for NDIS 5 drivers. Vista/7 is the last OS where you can get away with it and it only works for simple devices (like adapters) not anything heavy like gfx card drivers.
Hi....I'd put a standard antenna on an extension SMA cable and mounted on a Microphone stand (has worked well for me in the past) and pick up about a dozen nearby signals, only a third of them with 90%+ signal strength. Using the LeGuang-N120 USB antenna (with the 10m cable - I know it passes the limit, but it works) and I can pick up a dozen signals with a 90%+ strength, and two dozen others with less than that.
