G51J WiFi Card Needs Improvement

I have the Linksys WRT610N router. I want to dedicate the 5ghz, N band for my laptop use. While rest of the house is on the 2.4ghz, G band (7-10 other household connections).

Any suggestions on which card to get?

 

EIement said its a half size card, you could open it to make sure or check ASUS G51J-A1 Video Review at 6:10 to 6:34, from it you can see has the 3rd antenna taped to the card, so you could probably upgrade to:

Intel WiFi Link 5300 - Network adapter - PCI Express Half Mini Card

 

Anyone else have an idea?

 

Intel 5300 FTW. Hands down.

Cheers,
Kermee

 

There isn't a whole lot of options. the 5300 will be your best bet.

 

Second on the 5300.

 

Course, I think the WRT610N is junk... but that's my personal opinion...

With my D-Link DIR-825, I get around 11-14MB/sec on the 5 GHz side with Intel 5100 & 5300's and around 8GB/sec on the 2.4 GHz when the planets are aligned perfectly, all microwaves not popping popcorn and it's low tide.

I have yet to find an AP that supports 450Mbps PHY 3x3 MIMO that the Intel 5300/5350's support that doesn't require giving my first born child.

Cheers,
Kermee

 

Definitely the 5300. I have the same Linksys router I get 300Mbs in the house from it with the 5300 on 5GHz band.

 

Thanks everyone for all the help.
I ordered the 5300 Half-Mini card from Amazon last night.
Only place that had the Half-Mini card ava.
$50 shipped.
I will update with results.

 

Grats , hope everything works out. I'm also upgrading it to 5300 (full size) this weekend, ill post if it works.

 

I received my 5300 card last week. I only got time to put it in last night. Windows 7 found it and loaded the drivers no problem. Works great. Now have dedicated 5ghz (n) for my laptop. I was actually surprised how easy it was to install.
Asus even had the 3rd antenna already pre-wired into the laptop and just taped to the old card.

This is my 1st Asus Laptop and am very impressed.
Still have to work on that heat problem though.
Thanks again for everyone's help.

 

Glad it work for you, i also installed the 5300 full size on sunday and its been working great, i did had to install drivers from intel as it didnt want to recognize my wifi at home, but after the the reboot been working great.

What are you planing?

 

you're on winvista tho right Abula? iirc win7 has much better default wifi driver support.

 

Ohh yea i forgot about him runing 7, yea im on vista, but wasn't to much of problem after installing the drivers, its ruining really well, couldn't test if range is better due that was raining 3 days straight, but i yet to lose connection.