Upgrading wireless card from a stock Atheros

I heard that the stock wireless card for the Asus N550JV was horrible on power efficiency, so I opted to get the Intel Centrino 2230N to have installed when I purchase this laptop. Do you guys have experiences with this wireless card, especially with windows 8?
They also offer others; do you guys recommend any of the other wireless cards they listed?

I'm not sure about the ones that cost ~$50. I mean are they really that much better?

 

Remember not all WiFi cards work in every laptop some will and some won't depending on chip-set compatibility. But rather then hear how bad the card is you need to research and see for yourself what the test were and what they really show not just hear rumors. Sometime only Atheros will only work with Atheros WiFi equipped laptop and Intel with Intel based WiFi only so don't just get it because it looks like it work but make sure it does work for sure before getting it. Check with Asus support to see what WiFi are support in their laptop before just buying one thinking it will work.

 

I haven't heard of chipset compatibility, minus Intel AT. As long as your laptop doesn't whitelist WLAN cards (only HP and Lenovo do it) then you should be good.

 

1. Don't worry about power efficiency on a wifi card. Don't get the 2230N.
2. Don't brother getting the ac card unless you have a ac router.
3. Their prices are rip off to be honest. The intel 7260 is about 30-40 retail so that one is kind of better.
4. It is not hard to upgrade yourself and asus machine usually take any wifi card.

 

Any reason not to get the 2230N? I mean it should still be better than an atheros 1x2 card right?

 

It may be better, but compare to top wifi card like intel 6xxx which only cost 10ish dollars or bt version cost 20ish , it is just not a "good" investment.

 

should i get the Intel® Advanced N + WiMAX 6250 a/g/n 2x2 MIMO Technology then?

 

If you are willing to replace the Wi-Fi card yourself, the Intel 6235 is a pretty good card and I've used it in a lot of Asus laptops (running Windows 8 mostly).

If you don't need Bluetooth, and/or don't want to install the card yourself, the 2230n should be a decent better than the stock card.

The WiMAX card is only good if you plan on using WiMAX on it, otherwise it's fairly overpriced.

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I thought the 2230N came with bluetooth 4.0?

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/centrino-wireless-n-2230-brief.pdf

 

Sorry, was thinking of a different card.

Basically the only thing you would really benefit from with the n6235 is having 5ghz support, which is useful if you plan on using the laptop in a shorter range and can benefit from the higher bandwidth and lower pings compared to the longer range but saturated 2.4GHz band.

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