Intel centrino n2230 upgrade assist.

My wifes laptop, a HP M6 x015dx has a Intel Centrino N2230. I want to upgrade to a 7260 AC WiFi card. Can I ? She has Windows 8.1. I have an AC1750 Archer router..

 

You can upgrade but does HP use whitelisting or not (I can't remember)?
If they do only HP cards will work or you need to remove whitelisting. If they don't use it anymore any card that is not meant for a company that uses whitelisting will work.

 

Well, I installed new wifi chip. Installed fine, no problems. I did a speed test before with the N2230 chip, and with new Chip. Same speeds. 59Mbps.. Strange, I figured the AC chip would do better. This was on my wifes laptop, an HP.
My Sager went from a best of around 30Mbps to 59Mbps. I am wondering why the new laptop didnt do better than with the N wifi chip.
The router cant be AC only, unfortunately. Maybe the TP Link, or Xfinity Boost is the limiting factor. Or, I am expecting too much from Wifi.

 

You're limited by your Internet speed. Try a local file transfer if you wish to see the difference.

 

Guess i need to call comcast

 

Before you do, connect to a router with an Ethernet cable and check the speed once more.

 

I did, hooked up to ethernet, and it was the same, 59Mbps..

 

Start a command shell and type "route print" and note the metric for your wired and wireless IPv4 addresses. If the wireless IP has a lower number then that's a Windows bug that's routing your traffic through the wireless interface even though it's slower than wired.

To fix: open up the settings for the wireless adapter, IPv4 settings, advanced. There should be something called "automatic metric" near the bottom. Uncheck it and type a number in the box that is larger than the wired metric from the command above (I typically use 4000).

Then run your test again.

 

The numbers were the same, except when I put the 4000 in there and it went up 4000, for the wireless IPv4

 

So that seems to be it. Check with a different computer but it does indeed seem to be your ISP that is limiting you (or not- depending on what are you paying them for)

 

I am paying for 30Mbps with Boost to 50Mbps via xfinity/comcast

 

So that is it. You can't get more anyway. As mentioned before if you want to see the actual transfer limit you have to use another computer or NAS on LAN.

 

Thanks for all your help, now off to find a router that can send the same data outside, when the weather is nice...