Suggestion about replacing the wireless card in the laptop.

Asked By Luz M Terry 35 points N/A Posted on - 09/17/2014

I have an HP Pavilion 17 F053CA laptop. It has the following specification:

– Broadcom Corp. BCM43142 802.11 b/g/n

And I want to replace it with the following:

– Intel 7260HMW IEEE 802.11AC

– Dual-band, 2×2 WiFi plus Bluetooth 4.0 Mini PCI Express

Now, I want to know if this will be compatible with my HP Pavilion laptop. But if it's not compatible, will 802.11AC compliant wireless adapter work?

 

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Answered By Sharath Reddy 590495 points N/A #194071

Suggestion about replacing the wireless card in the laptop.

It depends on the operating system running on your laptop. If your HP laptop is using Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows 8 or even Linux Ubuntu, you won’t have a problem. The Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 adapter supports these operating systems. This adapter is available in PCI Express and USB types.

Since you are using a laptop, you can use the USB version of the adapter. It supports dual mode Bluetooth 4.0 that will allow you to connect to the latest low-energy Bluetooth products. The Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 adapter supports Intel Wireless Display, Intel vPro, and Intel Smart Connect Technology. The 4G WiMAX Wireless Technology is not supported though.

It features a maximum speed of about 300 to 867 Mbps at 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. It is 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n Wi-Fi certified.

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• Posted on - 09/23/2014
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