Aspire 8935G and wireless-N upgrade

Hiya folks,

As the title suggests, I'm the owner of an 8935G which although 3 years old now has done me well, and I'm very happy with the purchase.
I bought it because of the possibilities for upgrades (SSD, more RAM, faster CPU so far) but one thing nobody's touched on is the wireless card.

I want to get fibre broadband, but to make use of it properly without having a lump of cat5 trailing everywhere I'll need to sling out the old B/G kit, and get a 802.11 N setup.
My chassis has the Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN installed, and I see the instructions for enabling the N capability, but I'm wondering if anybody's tried swapping out the 5100 card for the 5300, which has higher bandwidth, and if so how you've got on with it?

 

cant see there being a problem if the system is running a 5100 ok as there not much difference in the 2 cards, cheap enough on ebay to try it and get back to us lol, very easy to change, just make sure you get mini pci.
what you need to do is look at the router you will be using, is the ones I have seen are 300mbps max which is what I was getting out my 5100, just getting the 5300 doesn't mean you will get 450mbps if the router is the limiting factor..
I didn't bother at I like using the gigabit lan

 

Yeah- shakennstirred is spot on on this one. Intel 5100 is a 802.11n card although it's a bad card overall- 5300 is much better even though both are quite similar in design.
Still- in order to use 450mbps card at that speed you need a three stream router and you need three antennas in your laptop (instead of two you already have).

Basically you already have an "n" card so if you have an "n" router and still get "g" speeds it's all bout settings- not the hardware.