Wireless card capabilities (Dell and Killer)

Ok, so this question actually has a separate motive behind it. Depending on the responses, I will be purchasing (or staying with) the card that gives me the best combination of features that I need.

Also, I am aware that some of the features I am asking for in the card are borderline violations of the rules so if a mod feels this is the case, please feel free to edit my post. Part of my job is penetration testing and I have a few external adapters that I use for my VM's but want to know user experience with these cards.

Now, on to the questions:

1. Do any of these card support simultaneous wireless host and peer connections?

2. Anyone ever used Connectify with these cards?

3. How are the Linux drivers for these devices? (Not if they are supported, but quality and features)

4. Support channel scanning across bands while remaining connected to a separate network?

5. Total scan latency? (Can it see a network if the network is broadcasting for 1 second per 5 minute block)


I haven't actually used either one of these cards and while I know the capabilities of the Intel 6300, I am genuinely curious to see if anyone has played with them enough to know these.

Yes, I can look up a lot of this info on the web, though a whitepaper is hardly as talkative (and sometimes less informative) than a forum of like-minded people.

 

my experience with the 6300agn (im not sure now if you want to hear about that one, but its the only i own)

1: Yes, even in Windows with standard drivers through intel PROSet/wireless

2: Never heard of it, but from a quick read it seems like a simplified ad hoc client? ad hoc works.

3: Cant complain, whole aircrack-ng suite works out of the box, no dropouts and about 50% more signal strength than the various 17inch laptops of my friends, packet errors for last week are 2% on a singel antenna router 10 meters away thorugh 4 thick partly wired walls

4: never specifically tested it, but airodump-ng scans and dumps happily away while communicating and injecting. is this the same?

5: No clue

 

Thanks NormenKD! Yea, the Intel 6300 is a really good adapter and is what I have in my M11x. I do hope someone else with the killer or the dell wireless can give me some info along the same lines as you.

Glad to see someone else who either does a little of what I do, or knows enough about it to give me the info I was hoping for.

If the killer can scan and inject while it also remains connected to another network and the drivers are Linux compatible (application would be nice too) then I might shell out the additional money for it.

If not, I guess I will go purchase another Intel 6300. So glad to see they changed from the crappy 3945...

 

This "Dell wireless n 1501" must be some kind of realtek chip or something. If "hwinfo --wlan" shows this is the same standard dell wireless card my netbook has, i could give more information