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HiVolt
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Toronto, ON

HiVolt

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Inspiron 17 5748 wifi upgrade

My mom has a Inspiron 17 (5748, Mid 2013), and it came with a rather pathetic single band, single stream wireless card (Dell 1705 I think).

The performance is absolutely pathetic if you move the laptop away from the room where the wireless access point is.

I have tried replacing the WiFi card with an Intel 6205 module I pulled out from my Lenovo laptop when I upgraded that to AC, the driver installs and it's detected but it will not start in device manager, I suspect it's a bios whitelist issue like I had with Lenovo.

What I need is a Dell Part Number for a dual band wifi card that will do 2x2 streams.

Any ideas?

WK2
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join:2006-12-28
united state

WK2

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Perhaps a non AC card will work

HiVolt
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join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON

HiVolt

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The card I tried is not AC, just an Intel 6205 dual band wireless N.

Its bios whitelist, because i dug up an older Dell 1502 card and it works, being a Dell part number, but its just as useless being the same single band single channel piece of crap.

Juke Box
His Word Never Fails
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join:2001-01-29
Psalm 96 ESV

Juke Box

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Try the Intel 7260.