It is not necessary to run Acrylic wifi Sniffer Control application in order to capture in monitor mode using any of the Acrylic WiFi tools or Wireshark. Chipsets RTL8814 and RTL8812: These are one of the latest chipsets that support 802.11ac, being able to capture all WiFi packets from a 20 Mhz channel width all the way to 160 Mhz.This is enough to see all signaling packets and part of the WiFi traffic. However, it has limitations depending on how well each card manufacturer supports Microsoft NDIS layer.