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wifi dongle for sierra?

Anyone know of a USB wi-fi adapter that's compatible (or has drivers compatible with) OS Sierra (10.12)?

The airport/bluetooth card on my mid-2011 MacBook Air is very poorly!


I've just had a very stressful couple of hours with an EDIMAX dongle, that simply refuses to play at all.


Many thanks.


(As an emergency physician, I can offer free, completely uninsured medical advice in return. But no consultations.)

Posted on Oct 16, 2016 8:34 AM

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Feb 28, 2017 5:31 PM in response to doctored

I recently got a new MacBook pro and needed to connect from the marina in a boat that is a little farther out in position. I had used a Alfa Networks external marine Alfa UBDo-nt Wireless Long-Range Outdoor USB 802.11n 2.4Ghz 2000mW 12dBi Antenna and thought I would again but no drivers or software was available. I emailed the company and they send me a link the next day to a bunch of there devices that now work with Mac osx Sierra. I have Mac OSX 10.12.3 and it works fine.

I hope the links I have listed will still work but I have used them as of 02/27/2017

Hope it helps

Mark

Link to software and drivers:

http://alfanetworkinc.blogspot.tw/2016/09/support-mac-os-x-1012-sierra-wifi-usb. html

Link to Alfa:

https://www.alfa.com.tw/


ALFA WiFi USB Support Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra) Model List

AWUS036NHR v2, AWUS036NH, AWUS036NEH, AWUS036NHV, AWUS036EAC, AWUS036AC, AWUS036ACH, AWUS051NHv2, AWUS052NH, U24N, Tube-UV, UBDo-UV, UBDo-n series, UBDo-25, Tube-UN


(updated: 2016/12/9)

Supported Model:

AWUS036NHR v2, AWUS036NHV, AWUS036EAC, AWUS036AC, AWUS036ACH, U24N

Tube-UV, UBDo-UV

AWUS036NH, AWUS036NEH, AWUS051NH v2, AWUS052NH, UBDo-n series, Tube-UN




Support Model:

AWUS036NH, AWUS036NEH, AWUS051NH v2, AWUS052NH, UBDo-n series, Tube-UN




Mar 2, 2017 7:45 AM in response to doctored

I have had good luck on my MacBook pro with one from Anewkodi ( http://anewkodi.com/?product=network-adapter-usb-wi-fi-dongle-adapter-600mbps ) with an external antenna (wireless ac) if you don't mind that -- RTL8812au wireless ac chipset dongles (several of them are out there) -- What I wanted was one that would work for my MacBook pro that triple boots via bootcamp with Sierra, Windows 10, and Linux. There is a mini-cd disk that comes with it but the latest driver download is on the site in the product description - The mac driver says 10.11 (not 10.12) but I installed it and I am working fine in Sierra. The linux driver provided is too old but doing a little research online and reading comments on pages I found one here that worked for Ubuntu 16.0.4: https://github.com/Grawp/rtl8812au_rtl8821au. Amazon and other online sources have good prices for it. I haven't tried other dongles but this one seems to work fine.

Mar 15, 2017 11:17 AM in response to Jeff Clayton

Thank you for the quick reply! I appreciate the information... I am going to order one from Amazon.....my current wifi chip in my MacBook only supports dual band wireless N....I have gigabit broadband speeds so I am hoping to get better wifi speeds using this 5Ghz band.....there just aren't many options out there as far as wifi dongle's go.....again thanks!

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