WiFi Cards for the X220

[illini71]

What is the best Wifi card i can get for the X220. I have the 1x1 11b/g/n Wireless LAN PCI Express Half Mini Card Adapter. This card is weak on reception and will not connect to my 5GHz network.

Any suggestions!

[bill bolton]

What is the best Wifi card i can get for the X220.

If you don't have a camera in your X220, that would be the Intel 6300 (which is a 3T3R card).

If you do have a camera, it will be one of the Intel 6200 family cards (which are basically 2T2R cards)..... sorry I don't use those cards myself and don't have an exact reference on the preferred 6200 series card model for an X220 handy.

Cheers,

Bill B.

[illini71]

I got a Ultimate 6300. WOW what a card, in places i would barely get reception im getting full reception. Not to mention 5ghz is an option now.

[asiafish]

I got a Ultimate 6300. WOW what a card, in places i would barely get reception im getting full reception. Not to mention 5ghz is an option now.

Did your X220 come with the 6300 card or did you install it yourself?

[illini71]

I bought off ebay and installed it myself.

[asiafish]

I bought off ebay and installed it myself.

Were the necessary antennas already in the laptop? Which card did your laptop originally come with?

[illini71]

I just put the two snap on wires back where they were. Its pretty simple. I had the 1x1 11.

[asiafish]

I just put the two snap on wires back where they were. Its pretty simple. I had the 1x1 11.

I thought the 6300 was a 3 antenna card.

[illini71]

Yeah it has place for one in the center. Its works very well without it. I have a wire for but it dosent have a connector on it. Works great with the 1 and 2 wire.

[illini71]

I found this when i was looking around.

No you will not see any diffrence the 3rd antenna is for a third concurent connection making it a 450 megabit connection assuming your N router has the ability to handle all three this would make it a third faster buuuut I only know of 1 router that can do this so far and I might be assuming to much but I doubt you have this. N with a 300 mb connection gives you about 12MB a sec so about 100mb that is a tiny bit better than 100 mb wired so it should do you for most things..

[vinuneuro]

So the 6300 is the same as the 6205 but with the additional capability of 450Mb/s?

[bill bolton]

No you will not see any diffrence

In my experience, 3T3R cards do give better performance with 2T3R routers that a 2T2R card does

Cheers,

Bill B.

[bobbytan]

In my experience, 3T3R cards do give better performance with 2T3R routers that a 2T2R card does

Cheers,

Bill B.

Let's say if we forgo the HSDPA card, could we use the HSDPA antenna as an alternative for the 3rd antenna required by 6300?

[vinuneuro]

In my experience, 3T3R cards do give better performance with 2T3R routers that a 2T2R card does

Cheers,

Bill B.

I think we're talking about performance with 2T2R routers since 2T3R are so rare. Especially since public areas (where you only find 2T2R) are where you run into reception issues.