Wifi / Bluetooth Device Suggestions

[TreeTopChicken]

I have this mobo

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/4p4NnQ/msi-b250i-pro-mini-itx-lga1151-motherboard-b250i-pro

 

And I have this case

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/XbKhP6/fractal-design-case-fdmcanode202aaus

 

And I want some great wifi / bluetooth capabilities and speeds. Suggestions on something to buy to enable me faster and steady wifi / bluetooth?

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, TreeTopChicken said:

I have this mobo

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/4p4NnQ/msi-b250i-pro-mini-itx-lga1151-motherboard-b250i-pro

 

And I have this case

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/XbKhP6/fractal-design-case-fdmcanode202aaus

 

And I want some great wifi / bluetooth capabilities and speeds. Suggestions on something to buy to enable me faster and steady wifi / bluetooth?

Faster than what?  Both are ultra short range radio and very subject to what they are connecting to.  Bluetooth alone is easy.  

Bluetooth is slow.  Even the fastest stuff can’t saturate USB 3.0, of which you have 4 plus internal headers.  It’s also very high freq. so antennas are small. For Bluetooth pick up a 5.0 usb dongle and fill one of your back ISB ports with it.  Cheap and easy.

[TreeTopChicken]

3 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Faster than what?  Both are ultra short range radio and very subject to what they are connecting to.  Bluetooth alone is easy.  

Bluetooth is slow.  Even the fastest stuff can’t saturate USB 3.0, of which you have 4 plus internal headers.  It’s also very high freq. so antennas are small. For Bluetooth pick up a 5.0 usb dongle and fill one of your back ISB ports with it.  Cheap and easy.

Sorry faster than nothing technically because I currently don't have bluetooth capability and my wifi usb receiver is really bad. Are there two dongles / usb antenna dongle things I can plug into the rear ports of my case?

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, TreeTopChicken said:

Sorry faster than nothing technically because I currently don't have bluetooth capability and my wifi usb receiver is really bad. Are there two dongles / usb antenna dongle things I can plug into the rear ports of my case?

Yes.  The Bluetooth ones work better than the WiFi ones and are much smaller, but both exist.  There may even be a dual one that does both.

 

the Bluetooth spec is a lot simpler than the WiFi spec though.  For WiFi it helps a lot to know what the spec of WiFi you want to connect to is.

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, TreeTopChicken said:

my wifi usb receiver is really bad

The Bluetooth ones are not too bad. I bought a $6.99 one off Amazon. It worked great. Occasionally Id have an issue, but unplugging it and Plugging it back in fixed it. I would suggest putting it in a front port, or a port closer to the device that needs to connect via bluetooth. 

 

WiFi wise, I mean its a mini ITX board. So either you have to use the ONE PCIexpress slot or stick with a USB device. 

[Bombastinator]

2 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

The Bluetooth ones are not too bad. I bought a $6.99 one off Amazon. It worked great. Occasionally Id have an issue, but unplugging it and Plugging it back in fixed it. I would suggest putting it in a front port, or a port closer to the device that needs to connect via bluetooth. 

 

WiFi wise, I mean its a mini ITX board. So either you have to use the ONE PCIexpress slot or stick with a USB device. 

One option is instead of a stick use a full on WiFi station that connects with either USB or Ethernet.