For a while now I’ve owned an older EeePC 1005PE.
I love the thing, running kubuntu 12.04 LTS it’s been a work horse for me. Recently I noticed that my wireless was becoming less reliable, plus it lacked 5GHz support which was a major bummer.
So I started digging around and discovered that these little laptops use a standard, half-height mini-PCIe wireless card. $40 later from Amazon Prime I had a new Intel 6300 and 2 extra internal antennas.
45 minutes later the new antennas and dual band wireless NIC were successfully installed. Kubuntu found the card and connected it directly to my network.
So far so good, better overall performance, less battery drain (slightly) and I can now see my lovely 5GHz router.
All around, this was a great upgrade and compliments the laptop nicely. Now if only I could upgrade the memory capacity beyond the 2GB limit!
Oh and for those of you wondering about wiring this particular card:
- white cable (main connector)
- black cable (aux connector)
- grey cable (middle connector for MIMO)
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