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Antennas increasing latency with OSXWIFI Mini PCI-E BCM94360CD card

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I7-7700K
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So I have a really strange issue. I have a netgear wifi router in the living room by my office while I waited for my card to arrive I was using a tplink repeater to connect to that network and use the ethernet to give my hackintosh internet.
I install the mini PCIE card and everything looks great, high sierra detects it, bluetooth pairing works, and wifi connects but I have horrible latency, speed test either time out or I get connections hovering around 200kpbs. At this point my repeater is still connecting and it's the repeater's signal that I'm connecting to. Thinking i may have connect the antenna to the pci-e card incorrectly I remove them and boom the internet connects and the speed test page loads and i get a decent speed 14 mpbs. When I connect the antennas even though the wifi menu bar shows I'm still connected I lose internet. Thinking it might be the repeater I use wifi explorer to check the signal strength of my base station without the repeater. With no antenna, it's at 15% and I can't connect. With antennas I get 70% signal strength, can connect but have horrible time outs. I'm at a loss. As it stands I can only connect via wifi if I remove the antennas and set the repeater right next to the tower. (the image is of this last setup)
 

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So I have a really strange issue. I have a netgear wifi router in the living room by my office while I waited for my card to arrive I was using a tplink repeater to connect to that network and use the ethernet to give my hackintosh internet.
I install the mini PCIE card and everything looks great, high sierra detects it, bluetooth pairing works, and wifi connects but I have horrible latency, speed test either time out or I get connections hovering around 200kpbs. At this point my repeater is still connecting and it's the repeater's signal that I'm connecting to. Thinking i may have connect the antenna to the pci-e card incorrectly I remove them and boom the internet connects and the speed test page loads and i get a decent speed 14 mpbs. When I connect the antennas even though the wifi menu bar shows I'm still connected I lose internet. Thinking it might be the repeater I use wifi explorer to check the signal strength of my base station without the repeater. With no antenna, it's at 15% and I can't connect. With antennas I get 70% signal strength, can connect but have horrible time outs. I'm at a loss. As it stands I can only connect via wifi if I remove the antennas and set the repeater right next to the tower. (the image is of this last setup)
Maybe something else is causing interference - Try changing the channel.
 
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