Hey everyone, my friend recently came up to me saying that he would like to upgrade his laptop's WiFi card caps his laptop's at 20Mbps (on a good day).

The laptop currently has a single band AzureWave AW-NB097H based on the Atheros AR9004WB chipset. He wants my help to upgrade to a card that supports AC WiFi.

I was thinking to get an Intel AC-7260HMW as an upgrade as the form factor fits and his laptop already has both Main and Aux antennas built-in.

So would this work? Can the old antennas effectively receive AC WiFi and 5 Ghz connections? What are the problems I should expect if I proceed with his upgrade?

Laptop specs are as below:

Asus K55VD
Intel Core i5 (Third gen)
Nvidia GT 610m
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 10 Home

Any advice and help are greatly appreciated, thanks!

Can consider Intel 7260 or 8260. It's cheap and gets the job done, about RM40 or less (Lazada). Not as fast as Wifi 6 but you probably won't need tat speed anyway. Take note of your current wifi card dimension and the screw holes. Check out the reddit forums. Good luck!

This post has been edited by chkwong: Mar 11 2022, 08:51 AM

I don't see any problems with that being it's an Asus

Some manufactueres like Dell, HP and Lenovo (in the past) put whitelists on the wifi card, if you replace the stock card with someone not on it's supported list it refuses to boot

you need to make sure your bios support the ac wifi card