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Macbook Air wireless card replacement (continued) (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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Part 1: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1763180

So I went and did it. Ordered an adapter and an intel ax200. It seems work just fine out of the box in linux. This cost me 25 to 30 euros total.

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Antenna considerations

The laptop was only designed for up to ac. The new card can do ax, which uses a different band. My router doesn't support ax, so I have no clue if that will see significant signal drop with the old antennae. I actually haven't even bothered to look deep enough to know if this even would be an issue, maybe it's okay.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AC networks actually already used the 5GHz band, so this should be fine with standard AX as well. Old 2,4GHz was N only iirc. Only Wifi6E introduced a new 6GHz band, but this is actually unsupported on the Intel AX200, so there is nothing to miss out on. Good retrofit for the little Macbook Air that could 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, I guess it's all good then. Thanks