X370 Taichi defective WiFi?

sure it can be replaced, but unfortuntately those little things are designed for notebooks hence their default settings are usualy configured as "moving device" to look up for free wifi or another signel within sam ssid....and such craps u really dont need on a PC

unless u change a thing in settings...it may not help you at all (sure enough better with 2x2 mimo can still help)
tho u may end up with something similar, no mater brand...

tbh its oems fault to use those things without preconfigured drivers for non movable PCs

and u do have also option to use pci-e wifi card as those are usualy ok on default


ive got mine just because i needed wifi-direct compatible wifi card...and intel atleast says that it supports it (unlike atheros...and whatever else brand)


Edited by kerberos_20 - 20 Dec 2017 at 3:38am

theres no reason to whitelist anything, it isnt notebook
but as for hardware its ok to put anything as long its pin compatible (m.2key e)

but before you do, you may try go to google/youtube and look for ac 3160 slow connection entries

^ this^

i presume one is 5gig and the other is 2.4

Onox, does your board have BlueTooth?  We know that both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth use the antennae.  Perhaps Wi-Fi uses one and Bluetooth uses the other?  I suggest you open a ticket and ask ASRock.

zlobster, it is true that the Wi-Fi cannot be turned off but it can be removed.  There are several post here, some with pictures, on how to remove the Intel card but you will loose Bluetooth also.
 
Enjoy, John.

Thanks for your answers! I made a mistake in my first post, and the access point was set to use 20 MHz bandwidth channels only, which explained the limited speed (now my laptop, which can use two streams unlike the card provided with the X370 Taichi, can connect at 300 Mbps).

However, I do think that my X370 Taichi has a problem, because the left socket for the antenna doesn't seem to work at all. If I unplug the antenna, nothing changes. If I screw only one antenna into this socket and not the other one, I can't detect any wireless network, but if I put one antenna on the right socket only, then it works. It's not the antennas themselves, because I tried swapping them.

This doesn't seem normal, does it?


Edited by Onox - 19 Dec 2017 at 5:33pm