Comments on: Getting the Alfa AWUS036H working on Ubuntu

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:31:15 +0000

hi,

I had a few problems with the dongle, and after unscrewing the antenna half a turn it fixed it. It may just be luck, but I would like to know if anyone has had this success !

By: r--t*nix

r--t*nix — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:26:04 +0000

thanks for this. i was having problems with my wifi and could not figure out what it was. it was picking up extreamly well and connecting to routers just could not go anywhere till now. it must have been over loading the router and dropping all the packets.

By: rxt

rxt — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:53:04 +0000

Thanks for posting this guide! I was having those same problems with my Alfa AWUS036H w/ 5dbi antenna.

By: anyonymous

anyonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:08:06 +0000

Thank you, I tried using the backtrack Operating system but it failed so I’m going to use Ubuntu.

By: static

static — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:47:42 +0000

i had trouble getting this to work at my parent’s house. it would connect to the network but then it would get like 30-40% packet loss when i pinged the router and it wouldn’t load web pages.

then i took it to my house and it got on my own wireless network no problem. i put the sucker on top of my car and i could load web pages from about a block away. _nice_. i hope it keeps working for me.

By: Rei

Rei — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:09:48 +0000

Most of the problems I’ve found related to the AWUS036H on Linux are due to this particular issue in general. The drivers have a few bugs too, like it will report you have a -89db signal when you in fact have a rather strong connection (and a much higher signal rate than actually reported).

I think part of the problem may also be related to NetworkManager which has a tendency to create chaos on a sane network at times. But ultimately following the steps I prescribed to the letter will get you online at least 9 out of 10 times. I’ve not really seen it not work on my machine

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By: scotty

scotty — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:13:15 +0000

In reply to your post i think you have a valid point about tx settings as the tx power of the awus036h proberbly exceeds the power of the router your trying to connect to.

I have the problem of connecting to a network with a good signal and not being able to browse the internet? But if i put the adapter on my windows vista system it will connect to the same network and browse the internet. where as most networks do connect and i can see the internet but not to the degree of windows. I am baffeled mabee its a driver prolem i don’t know but it just seems the performance of this adapter is not so good running it on ubuntu. If anyone has experienced this prob I would love to hear from you