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I ran into the strangest thing in a long while, not that this is of any value.

I installed an ASUS USB-4 card into my workstation, which worked just fine. I get everything back together (almost everything), and then my wireless mouse, a Logitech MX Master 3S starts stuttering and disconnecting. No other Bluetooth mouse I had would connect, they're all Logitech. I had no other spare wired mouse available.

I go down the Reddit rabbit hole, and one thing that I didn't reconnect? The external wifi antenna that screws into the board on the back. I screw it on, and now everything works just fine. I am not on wifi, I don't even have it enabled.

What kind of weird and wild things has ASUS done with Bluetooth? Logitech uses USB-A receivers for their wireless stuff. I don't get it, maybe someone else does.
 
At a guess: it does something on the 2.4GHz wifi band that overlaps with bluetooth and microwave bands.

By not plugging in the antenna it started leaking radiation too close to the logitech reiceiver.

I’m assuming it’s trying to be ‘helpful’ by creating its own wifi network or that disabling doesn’t actually disable it.

The USB-A thing is a big reason why I didn’t get the 3s yet, I’m trying to move everything to USB-C, without needing adapters.

How’s USB4 working out? It is very disappointing on my work laptop, the 10G ethernet ‘dongle’ that gives me close to 10Gbps on my macbook pro only does 3Gbps on my work Lenovo T14s.
 
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I ran into the strangest thing in a long while, not that this is of any value.

I installed an ASUS USB-4 card into my workstation, which worked just fine. I get everything back together (almost everything), and then my wireless mouse, a Logitech MX Master 3S starts stuttering and disconnecting. No other Bluetooth mouse I had would connect, they're all Logitech. I had no other spare wired mouse available.

I go down the Reddit rabbit hole, and one thing that I didn't reconnect? The external wifi antenna that screws into the board on the back. I screw it on, and now everything works just fine. I am not on wifi, I don't even have it enabled.

What kind of weird and wild things has ASUS done with Bluetooth? Logitech uses USB-A receivers for their wireless stuff. I don't get it, maybe someone else does.
I had bluetooth issues with my ASUS ROG laptop. Found they use what is probably the cheapest possible wifi/bluetooth card and I was considering changing it out (issue is my computer would reset at random times but bluetooth would pause/stop just before it reset so I suspected that card). I got to digging into the drivers and found a file that didn't have a real name, just a bunch of symbols like a square/question mark/triangle in place of letters. Uninstalled that driver and my laptop quit resetting. While researching that issue (in a reddit hole) I saw people having your issue because of the failure to screw in the antenna. Hope you solved the issue.
 
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