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ecschwarz

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Apologies if this has been covered somewhere — I did search the forums, but I recently got a G5 and it didn't have AirPort or Bluetooth installed. I got an AirPort antenna with it, but no Bluetooth one. I had a dead Mac mini that donated its wireless boards and that leads me to my quandary—it seems these Bluetooth antennas are expensive ($30+) online, especially when you can find a cheap USB Bluetooth module for $15 or so.

I'd rather not tie up a USB port, since this is a secondary machine and I don't want to get a hub for it, but does anyone know of any alternatives/cheap locations for these? Right now I managed to make a crude antenna using a paperclip (a friend who ran a lab of these suggested it), but I'd rather at least find something with a female-MCX (I think?) connector on the cheap.
 
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