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Originally Posted by Vesper Martini
They should work pretty easily, you can get adaptors with Bluetooth also pretty darn cheap off ebay.
are you using winXP?
another option is a powerline adaptor about $100
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I'm 20+ metres, 2 doors and 3 brick walls away from my modem. I tried usb wifi and yeah, doesn't work on a PC, you need more power and antennas up high.
While wifi works with phones or tablets this far away from the wifi router, desktop PCs or my old laptop don't because they're not inbuilt with adequate antennas or designed around that wifi comm function.
Anyway, the solution to my circa 2008 win7 PC is the pcie asus ac68 with antennas. I've been using it for 5 years without problems, just with the standard nbn/telstra modem so far away. The 3x antennas of my asus pce-68 sits 1M above the PC, on top of one of my speakers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ASUS+PCE+68
I did try the tiny usb dongle from asus, and another that has antennas attached to the back of the device (which wouldn't function really being on the back of a huge PC tower so low, and the furthest point)
The asus 68 pcie with a 1m lead and remote antenna I can mount higher on my speaker or desk has worked fine on my old w7 system for 5 years.
E: I'll try to find one of my old "failed" ones for you, 8M should be easy for anything I tried but just didn't work for my 20m. Most of them are win7 vintage.
I've got one of these
https://www.asus.com/au/Networking-I...USB-AC53-Nano/ that worked on my laptop for 8M, just not on my desktop 20M away.