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Compatible wireless chart

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enhancement WirelessBuyersGuide
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**Guide**: Wireless Buyers Guide ([link](https://dortania.github.io/Wireless-Buyers-Guide/))

At least some people here remember a table made by Skvo, which outlined Wi-Fi compatibility (https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues/1629#issuecomment-833034654). This table was an intuitive way to see which Wi-Fi card is supported natively and which Wi-Fi card required `device-id` spoofing. It also lists the compatible macOS versions Wi-Fi protocol support.

Unfortunately at this time the table is rather outdated, and all the alternatives we have seen or been linked to (see the link above for an example) contain multiple errors or are simply misleading. For example, [the one in question](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1Yxlvo-vK_zupMiR1Ua_NZ1X0j6BSXoICCEgB7wvAQsM/htmlview) has the following errors at the very least:

* Intel Wi-Fi does not need a `device-id` fix, this is nonsense, they require AirportItlwm.
* Atheros Wi-Fi cards do not work with a `device-id` fix again, in reality they require kext installation or a godzillion of patches on older macOS versions.
* There are no 225 Mbit/s speeds for 2.4 GHz cards, they are either 150 or 300.
* BCM94360NG is missing, which is essentially BCM94360 in NGFF form-factor flashed with Apple IDs.
* There is almost nothing about Bluetooth compatibility, making it misleading which cards actually work natively and which cards needs firmware loading and all that crap from BrcmPatchRAM. For example, BCM943602BAED (DW1830) might seem a good choice before you realise how broken Bluetooth is there. Really needs a separate column for Bluetooth with Native, Device ID, Firmware values.
* Some cards are quite revision dependent, so it is best to make a separate notes column explaining the caveats. For instance, DW1820A is just disgusting, and while its Bluetooth is already one of the least stable stacks not just in macOS but also in other systems, depending on the revision of the card you would have totally different experience.

I suggest us build a new version of the table that can be maintained on community basis and have much less errors compared to the tables that exist now and more information in a convenient form compared to Dortania guides.

@1alessandro1, since you started the matter, would you like to build a new table correcting the issues that I listed and taking the original Skvo table into account. This could give us a base, so that @Andrey1970AppleLife would review it and request more corrections. Afterwards we could put it somewhere like this Dortania guide.

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