Continuity and Handoff Capable Apple Mini Cards + PCIe and mini-PCIe Adapters

[UtterDisbelief]

Yes, that's exactly the issue.
Thanks for your input and help:


I'm using 5Ghz as well.


I tried all 4 of them so far, and there is only one that "apparently" seems to be the BT one, since I get 50-60 dBm, however yes, it's not clear which one is it, OSXWifi really seems like a home garage project, since the manual was a plain old color printed document.

Unfortunately, still sound is extremely choppy with the BT Headset. Never had the issue before, don't know if I posted that or not but anyway, I was using one of the recommended dongles before the PCIe card and I had an USB extender (basically, next to the keyboard and mouse) and the sound quality was top notch and no cut-offs whatsoever, so I guess it is indeed a problem with BT range.

The antenna I bought is the one I posted before, a D-Link and it's huge, I have tried even putting the antenna next to the headset but same thing, ~60-70 dBm which means extreme choppiness.

Sounds like you've covered most angles then.

On a previous build I used a different pci-e card with a BCM94360CD Broadcom device and used a larger aerial for BT on that too. Not sure if your card is the same but this photo I found online at MacRumours helped me identify the BT connection. The aerials seem to be on J0-J3 and it's J3 you see in this photo that's the BT.

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/img_4910-jpg.480823/

Can't think of anything else other than the PCI-e connection not delivering enough power. I was confused about this previously and asked on the forums here. I was told the card's USB cable is for data only and that the BT side of things gets its power from the PCI-e slot. I had to take this on trust as I don't know enough. For my latest card I had to adjust the mounting backplate quite significantly to get the card to sit in the slot properly. Once I'd done that a lot of problems disappeared.

 

[Niamreagan]

Hey! I was wondering if I can build a Hackintosh with the ASUS Z170-A LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard, the Intel Core i7-6700 4.0 GHz Quad Core Processor, and the MSI GTX960 Gaming 4GB 1241MHz Core Clock Graphics Card and if I'll need a wifi or TP-Link TL-WDN4800 Dual Band Wireless N900 PCI Express Adapter, 2.4 GHz 450 Mbps/5 GHz 450 for my system dual booting Windows 10/OS X El Capitan with Internet/Wifi access from my router over the air (no Ethernet) using the Netgear USB I already have. Thanks so much, can't wait to start building!

 

[langhuxley]

On a previous build I used a different pci-e card with a BCM94360CD Broadcom device and used a larger aerial for BT on that too. Not sure if your card is the same but this photo I found online at MacRumours helped me identify the BT connection. The aerials seem to be on J0-J3 and it's J3 you see in this photo that's the BT.

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/img_4910-jpg.480823/

Thank you for posting this! My BCM94360CD is identical and I've have been looking all over the place to find out which antenna was the BT one, with little success -up until now.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Thank you for posting this! My BCM94360CD is identical and I've have been looking all over the place to find out which antenna was the BT one, with little success -up until now.

Glad it was helpful. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.

 

[asiga]

I get a bit lost from the searches suggested at the initial post in this thread, because my knowledge in this topic is quite limited. I don't have a clue on what components should I order, nor the criteria for choosing one or another. Can anybody give me the names/part numbers of components that are known to work OOB and that are widely available? Or my best bet is contacting osxwifi? Thanks!

 

[UtterDisbelief]

I get a bit lost from the searches suggested at the initial post in this thread, because my knowledge in this topic is quite limited. I don't have a clue on what components should I order, nor the criteria for choosing one or another. Can anybody give me the names/part numbers of components that are known to work OOB and that are widely available? Or my best bet is contacting osxwifi? Thanks!

Hi there.

If you want to buy one already made off-the-shelf, then yes, OSXWIFI is fine, and so are the others on Amazon or Ebay. Usually they offer the latest compatible chipsets because they use recycled Apple certified parts. Luckily there aren't very many sellers with checkable feedback ratings for these items so they are easy to find.

If you want to build your own then you should read through the threads for compatibility and suggestions, because you *can* get everything working using a discrete wifi chip and separate USB bluetooth 4. Cost-wise though, buying a ready-made one is often not so much more expensive, unless you happen to have a supply of the correct chips available. What's more the ready-mades should have been properly checked before despatch.

For me, living where I do, it was cheaper to buy ready-made. Happily the seller was in the same country so there was no long wait. Though it was a far-eastern import.

 

[asiga]

Hi there.

If you want to buy one already made off-the-shelf, then yes, OSXWIFI is fine, and so are the others on Amazon or Ebay. Usually they offer the latest compatible chipsets because they use recycled Apple certified parts. Luckily there aren't very many sellers with checkable feedback ratings for these items so they are easy to find.

If you want to build your own then you should read through the threads for compatibility and suggestions, because you *can* get everything working using a discrete wifi chip and separate USB bluetooth 4. Cost-wise though, buying a ready-made one is often not so much more expensive, unless you happen to have a supply of the correct chips available. What's more the ready-mades should have been properly checked before despatch.

For me, living where I do, it was cheaper to buy ready-made. Happily the seller was in the same country so there was no long wait. Though it was a far-eastern import.

Thank you, very helpful advice!

 

[iterability]

hi.

i just had a question about the adapter.

i bought "AzureWave Broadcom BCM94352HMB 802.11/ac/867Mbps WLAN + BT4.0 Half Mini PCI-E."

which adapter would work with it that i should buy?

thank you.

 

[ketomagik]

Hi guys,

I've been searching for a long time without any success. I bought the Broadcom BCM94360CD adapter with the PCI-E adapter to mount the card on it. I plugged it in a PCI-E 1x slot on my mobo. Bluetooth is working out of the box but WiFi isn't.

I read about the half of this forum but nothing seems to work.... Can someone help me please ?

P.S: There is the adapters that I bought on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00QIJ9Y86/?tag=tonymacx86c0c-20
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00L35XSMS/?tag=tonymacx86c0c-20

Thanks in advance !

 

[cnrd]

Hi guys,

I've been searching for a long time without any success. I bought the Broadcom BCM94360CD adapter with the PCI-E adapter to mount the card on it. I plugged it in a PCI-E 1x slot on my mobo. Bluetooth is working out of the box but WiFi isn't.

I read about the half of this forum but nothing seems to work.... Can someone help me please ?

P.S: There is the adapters that I bought on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00QIJ9Y86/?tag=tonymacx86c0c-20
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00L35XSMS/?tag=tonymacx86c0c-20

Thanks in advance !

What motherboard are you using?

I just had the same problem yesterday. The wifi would ONLY work in the last PCIE port on my motherboard. (A PCIE 4x slot)