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    Ideal wifi card for Lenovo W520 (for streaming)

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by prosetheus, Nov 17, 2016.

  1. prosetheus

    prosetheus Notebook Consultant

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    As stated in the title, I am looking to get fast and reliable AC networking running with this machine. I tend to have a lot of drives and cables plugged to this laptop and sometimes like to stream content off this to my tablet.

    So what is the best wifi solution that can be hooked up to this laptop?
    Highest priority will be for an internal solution.

    I might go for a USB implementation as well but ideally an internal solution would be best.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    prosetheus, Nov 17, 2016
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  2. djembe

    djembe drum while you work

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    Intel 6300 is probably the fastest internal wifi you can install, based on whitelist restrictions, and that will do 3x3 802.11n speeds (absolute theoretical max of 450 Mbps, practical max of 250 Mbps). However, you can use external 802.11ac dongles to connect faster
     
    djembe, Nov 18, 2016
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