mini mac late 2014 wifi/bt card is there an upgrade dual band card

mini mac late 2014 wifi/bt card is there an upgrade dual band card apple or third party

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Posted on Mar 1, 2022 5:39 AM

All Apple Macs have supported both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi bands for probably a decade or more.


However, the various WiFi standards that utilize those bands have changed over the years. For the 2014 MacMini, it supports the 802.11AC WiFi specs and older.


So, if you have a WiFi router that is 802.11AC, your Mini will work just fine. Even if the WiFi router is newer AX specs it will still work just fine. It just won't achieve the higher AX speeds.


As far as the ultimate connection and download speeds, that is extremely environment dependent, i.e. you will almost never ever achieve the routers max speeds.

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Mar 1, 2022 5:39 AM in response to 7osh

All Apple Macs have supported both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi bands for probably a decade or more.


However, the various WiFi standards that utilize those bands have changed over the years. For the 2014 MacMini, it supports the 802.11AC WiFi specs and older.


So, if you have a WiFi router that is 802.11AC, your Mini will work just fine. Even if the WiFi router is newer AX specs it will still work just fine. It just won't achieve the higher AX speeds.


As far as the ultimate connection and download speeds, that is extremely environment dependent, i.e. you will almost never ever achieve the routers max speeds.

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Mar 1, 2022 5:19 AM in response to VikingOSX

is my mac mini late 2014 wifi card only useable with 2.4 gh and no 5 gb even though my router is dual band. ps tried TP LIN Archer T3U wifi usb no drivers for Monterey 12.2.1 will never get dual band on this.cheers

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