- Joined
- Mar 4, 2012
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Intel NUC8i7BEH
- CPU
- Core i7-8559U
- Graphics
- Iris Plus 655
- Mac
For anyone interested, thought I would try out the latest 1.2 alpha of airportitlwm.kext (Intel WiFi kext) since it's been a while since the last "stable" release (1.1.0 back in September) and there's been a lot of commit activity on the repo.
On my NUC8i7 I'm seeing WiFi downstream speed is now 80Mbit, up from 35Mbit or so under 1.1.0
The WiFi section of the System Report looks a lot cleaner/more complete and more like what I see on a stock Mac (see below).
AirDrop is still not working, and unlock with Apple Watch also doesn't appear in under Security & Privacy - despite AirDrop being "supported" with a channel assigned in the report, and "Auto Unlock" marked as Supported.
Maybe I need to sign out and back in to iCloud? Who knows. Anyway, not worth troubleshooting further as its an alpha. Taking this as a sign of perhaps some nice things to come whenever the next stable release drops. With the speed improvement I'll keep this kext as-is until then.
On my NUC8i7 I'm seeing WiFi downstream speed is now 80Mbit, up from 35Mbit or so under 1.1.0
The WiFi section of the System Report looks a lot cleaner/more complete and more like what I see on a stock Mac (see below).
AirDrop is still not working, and unlock with Apple Watch also doesn't appear in under Security & Privacy - despite AirDrop being "supported" with a channel assigned in the report, and "Auto Unlock" marked as Supported.
Maybe I need to sign out and back in to iCloud? Who knows. Anyway, not worth troubleshooting further as its an alpha. Taking this as a sign of perhaps some nice things to come whenever the next stable release drops. With the speed improvement I'll keep this kext as-is until then.