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My own experience : I purchased a Netgear A6210 because it was one of the few I could find that supports monitor mode on Windows. I had to get it 2nd hand as its no longer sold by Netgear. Using it with npcap, which also provides the 'wlanhelper' tool neccesary to enable monitor mode/set the modulation/set the channel. Only captures 1 channel/modulation at a time, but can update it dynamically during a wireshark capture using the wlanhelper tool...

It works fine for capturing "ofdm" modulation (a/b/g?) also claims to suppoirt hrdsss/erp/ht (whatever versions of 802.11 they are!) but haven't tried these. Only issue I have experienced is that I can't seem to capture packets that have the toDA/fromDA bits set in the FC field...

A+ Brian

PS> neither the TP-Link AC600 (Archer T2U Plus) nor the TP-Link Mini Wireless N TL-WN823N support monitor mode (I thought these were on a list as working, but either I misread or the latest versions don't work)

My own experience : I purchased a Netgear A6210 because it was one of the few I could find that supports monitor mode on Windows. I had to get it 2nd hand as its no longer sold by Netgear. Using it with npcap, which also provides the 'wlanhelper' tool neccesary to enable monitor mode/set the modulation/set the channel. Only captures 1 channel/modulation at a time, but can update it dynamically during a wireshark capture using the wlanhelper tool...

It works fine for capturing "ofdm" modulation (a/b/g?) also claims to suppoirt hrdsss/erp/ht (whatever versions of 802.11 they are!) but haven't tried these. doesn't seem to want to set these modulations via wlanhelper (gives me an error)

Only issue I have experienced is that I can't seem to capture packets that have the toDA/fromDA bits set in the FC field...

A+ Brian

PS> neither the TP-Link AC600 (Archer T2U Plus) nor the TP-Link Mini Wireless N TL-WN823N support monitor mode (I thought these were on a list as working, but either I misread or the latest versions don't work)