Ok, for reference I have a pair of moondrop space travel iems, from my samsung s7+ tablet which has 5.0, damn near perfect connectivity anywhere in the house and basement along with quite a good range outside the house
with my motherboard, an amd 370x taichi with I think 4.2, I get about half that distance before its a drop out filled mess.
I would LOVE some way to either extend the range of my 4.2 inside my pc, and if that’s not possible a dongle and I disable the internal bluetooth. that’s not too hard, however I run into the issue where finding a dongle that does what I want by searching is a nightmare. I dont really want to add another card into my pc, my setup is far from perfect due to an m.2 drive dying and me fixing it in a ‘good enough’ way this sees my second m.2 being the boot drive, while the main good one being a mass storage drive. and because both slots are used, Im not clear on what expantion slots are no longer useable, and I think if I use the second good slot, it then cuts the main one for the gpu to 8x instead of 16x however looking up my motherboard I think the current wifi is inside a m.2 thats under shielding or something, I cant actually find pictures of it or if its upgradeable.
I am willing to get an external device that just works through a headphone jack and just has its own bluetooth, however I bounce between pc/tablet/quest3 with these iems, and its REALLY nice to be able to connect and disconnect on a setting I can access on a device, rather than hope everything works correctly with 2 devices trying to pair (had a set of iems and a bluetooth dongle for my old computer that would bluescreen if bluetooth was enabled, getting 2 dumb things to pair is an abject nightmare I want to avoid if its possible)
my main issue is nothing at all seems to be able to tell me yes this will work, its almost all seemingly snakeoil, sketchy as hell products, or in room ‘yes this works when you are less than 10 feet away’ I know it should work, my tablet is proof that 5.0 or a better bluetooth module works, but im at a loss on how to make my pc’s bluetooth better.
tldr, bluetooth on tablet works through 6 walls and about 40 feet in any direction, bluetooth on pc balrey gets 3 walls and 20 feet before connection issues, I want to improve this with a dongle if possible, and am willing to get a bluetooth transmitter that works though 3.5mm if its the only way,