Do you wanna have reliable wifi on your Hackintosh?
Then this video is the right one for you.
I will show you how to make working Hackintosh wifi the best and easiest way.
Hackintosh forums are full of people asking how to get wifi working on their Hackintosh.
But in majority of cases what they recommend there is absolutely wrong and even bad idea.
Let me explain that.
In most recommendations about wifi for Hackintosh you will find the Fenvi card or similar ones
and I cannot recommend those anymore.
Reason is simple.
These cards needs PCIe connection as well as USB connection to your motherboard.
Most Hackintosh users built their Hackintosh builds on consumer gaming platforms like Z370/570
or AMD AM4 X570 etc.
And these platforms have very limited PCIe lanes resources and also limited amount of
PCIe slots.
So why to block already limited PCIe slots by some Fenvi card when you could use this
slot for better use case?
Why to block your onboard USB connection, when lot of people would need to use this
USB header for their AIO water cooling like the NZXT Kraken or others?
Simply it’s bad idea to use such wifi cards like the Fenvi when you can have much easier,
much cheaper and even portable solution.
I always prefer USB connections because of it’s compatibility and ease of use.
That’s why for all my builds use USB wifi dongles.
You can connect it to any build, easily move it to another if you want, it’s flexible.
It’s not blocking your PCI slot or onboard USB header.
My favourite pick is this one - the TP-Link Archer T3U Plus, but as you will later see
in this video there are tons of such USB dongles for extremely cheap which you can get almost
everywhere.
Much cheaper than the Fenvi card.
I like this Archer T3U Plus in my Hackintosh because it’s compact, with huge antena,
which you can even rotate, it’s dual band, so you can connect to 2.4 GHz and also 5 GHz
wifi networks and it’s rated even up to 1300 Mbits per second.
Amazing, what you need more?
But as you know already - to make working almost anything from strictly PC world on
your Hackintosh in macOS needs lot of tweaking, research, configuration, time.
Not in this case.
I will show you right now how super easy is to make this card, as well as really dozens
of others working in macOS Big Sur, Catalina or even macOS Monterey.
Really, it will take you only 2 minutes.
Let’s have a look.
Navigate to this website (link is in this video description).
It’s a github page of some amazing developer called “chris1111”.
Here you can find drivers for normally macOS unsupported wifi adapters.
So using these drivers you can make those unsupported wifi adapters working in macOS
Big Sur, Catalina or even in upcoming macOS Monterey.
On the bottom you can find list of all PC devices which will magically start working
in your macOS Hackintosh.
I bought the Archer T3U Plus and that was no coincidence, I chose it based on this list
of course :) So on the right click on Releases and download
the latest installer.
Unzip it.
Right click and Open
check to install the Wireless USB OC Big Sur Adapter driver bundle”
and continue with the installation.
It will automatically mount your EFI partition.
Here you can see it added these two kernel extensions.
Now just reboot your Hackintosh.
I still did not connect the Archer T3U Plus to my computer so that’s why it’s not
listed here in System Preferences and Network nor in the System profiler.
So now it’s time to plug it in.
And here we have it.
In the top bar as you can see it automatically appeared and immediately started to scan wifi
networks around.
Don’t use the standard macOS WIFI utility in your top bar, use the new installed one.
Choose Wireless Utility, select the wifi network you want connect to, fill in your password
and click on Join.
I’m connected which is indicated in the top bar where the utility changed color
to blue bars.
:) So now in the System Preferences and Network I will disable my wired Ethernet to keep there
only the wifi connection.
And as you can see I am connected to internet absolutely fine.
BTW on the same web page on the bottom you can find handy wifi speed test utility.
So let’s test it.
So again, right click and Open to bypass the Gatekeeper.
Test is running, as you can see on my Little Snitch icon status it’s now testing download
and now upload speed.
Results are exactly equal to internet speed which is coming to this location from my ISP.
So now let’s show you one more thing, how fast it will automatically reconnect to my
wifi when I plug it in.
I run this wifi adapter through USB hub connected to my USB-C on the back of motherboard so
you can better see it.
So it took only 4 seconds to connect to my preferred wifi network after physically connecting
the wifi adapter to my Hackintosh.
That’s impressive.
So that was wifi.
But you may ask what about BlueTooth?
Don’t worry, I think about you too.
Similar extremely easy solution how to get BlueTooth working natively on your Hackintosh
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Bye bye my Hackintosh friends.