topic Re: Wifi Card Upgrade in Wireless

Wifi Card Upgrade

Nord — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:31:58 GMT

Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me out with upgrading my old laptop's wifi card with something faster. It's an HP Notebook 15 bs028ca with the 832A board. Current card is the AC 3168. My understanding of all this is limited, but from what I saw, the AC 7265 is a possible replacement. Is that the card to go with or should it be something else? Any insight would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Re: Wifi Card Upgrade

AlHill — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:48:14 GMT

You will need to contact HP regarding any wifi integration and possible new card.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005687/wireless.html?wapkw=regulatory+information+regarding+hardware+installation

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[W10 is this generation's XP]

Re: Wifi Card Upgrade

Nord — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:01:35 GMT

I'll look into that. Thank you.

Re: Wifi Card Upgrade

n_scott_pearson — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:04:19 GMT

Presuming that there are no issues from the HP side regarding integration, the better choice is to upgrade to the AX210. This offers you with Wireless-AX, WiFi 6e (6GHz band support) and Bluetooth 5.3.

Hope this helps,

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Re: Wifi Card Upgrade

Nord — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:08:40 GMT

I just finished up speaking with them and it looks like I'm good to go ahead with the upgrade. I'll go with the AX210. Do you recommend any specific drivers or will the latest be ok?

Re: Wifi Card Upgrade

n_scott_pearson — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:41:14 GMT

You want the latest. They just released a new release that supposedly addresses a whole bunch of the outstanding issues.

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Re: Wifi Card Upgrade

Nord — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:42:38 GMT

I installed the card and it's working well, seeing some improvements already. Thanks to the both of you for your help.