Hi all, My son has an Asus x552CL laptop with a b/g/n wireless adapter inside. I have an Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 adapter from a dead ITX m/b that I was thinking of adding to his laptop. The existing wireless card has two contacts, the new wireless card has three. Are these just aerial connections? Do I just connect up the two wires to contacts 1 & 2 on the replacement wireless card or is it more difficult than that? The point of the upgrade is to use 5Ghz wireless in the house but he need the ability to use 2.4Ghz when using it elsewhere. Is the third contact for 5Ghz and does it require the laptop itself to actually support 5Ghz natively or is the third contact for another feature? Anyone know?
Yep. Yep. The third aerial is to handle more bandwidth I believe (300mbit vs 450). As long as the card supports 5GHz then you can use the 5GHz band.
Is one of the aerials solely for 5Ghz or will using 1 & 2 allow the use of 300mbit 5Ghz as well as 2.4Ghz?
Using 1 & 2 should give you 300mbit on both but I'm not certain. If you do have problems, the two aerial version of your card (6200) is readily available on ebay. There's also the Bluetooth version, the 6235.
Thanks mate, you are awesome, I will try the one I have first and see what happens, just wanted to double check before I started. + rep
All done, works a treat, much faster wi-fi than the crappy Atheros card that was in it plus it is now dual band so his HD Youtube experience is much faster (and doesn't impact the 2.4Ghz wireless devices in the house). Thanks again mate.
