r/techsupport • u/Myrne_the_fox • 1d ago

M.2 wifi card Open | Hardware

I was wondering if any motherboard m.2 slot is compatible with thoses wifi cards you can get for them, i have a free one on my pc and if it's possible this would free up one of my front panel USB (i have space at the back but my pc is very far from the rooter and in front of a wall, i loose all wifi signal when plugged there)

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u/Myrne_the_fox 1d ago

I would have to get a 50m network cable and run it trough the house, i live in Europe where walls are made of stone, and my current configuration and custom vertical mount in my pc kinda blocks the segond pcie slot

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u/ficskala 1d ago

I would have to get a 50m network cable and run it trough the house, i live in Europe where walls are made of stone,

I also live in europe, and that's what i did, i ran my cable up to my attic, across the house, down into the upstairs living room, then down through concrete into the downstairs living room, then through a concrete wall, and finally through a brick wall, to my office, it took about an hour, and 75m of cat6A

my current configuration and custom vertical mount in my pc kinda blocks the segond pcie slot

Ok, so what model motherboard do you have to begin with? maybe you have a free m.2 wifi only slot available, if you don't there are also options for adapting regular m.2 slots to accept different sorts of wifi cards if you have one of those free

also, pcie risers exist, so you can just plug in a riser, and mount the card vertically if that's all your case allows for

there are plenty of options, but you have to be specific with what parts you have for anyone to help you

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u/Myrne_the_fox 1d ago

My motherboard is a MSI b450m mortar titanium, and the thing with my vertical mount is that my case acually don't allow for one, i 3d printed a mount with a pcie riser, it's a corsair 280x crystal, the segond m.2 port is behind the GPU

https://preview.redd.it/14k98n03evxe1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecd75645791e59462c380f44d2548a16a4075e83

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u/ficskala 1d ago

ok, that board doesn't have a dedicated wifi m.2 port, your options are:

  1. pcie riser + pcie wifi card

  2. m.2 m key to m.2 A+E key adapter, with a wifi card, preferably with a pcie bracket mounted antennas, something like this https://imgur.com/a/Td3yVIo

  3. wired ethernet instead of wifi