Looking for a wifi card upgrade for my HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop (TG01-0xxx) plz help me

[Khronos]

Im looking into getting a new wifi card for my pc because i realized that my current one kinda sucks, i got a steamdeck recently and realized that its getting way better download speed and just better connection than my pc. (3Mb vs 25-30Mb)

im not sure if i need a specific kind of wifi card for my pc or if any one will work so i would like to know which and if i can upgrade it.

Specs.

Ryzen 5 3500

Gtx 1650 Super

400w psu

16gb DDR4 Ram

[Paul_Tikkanen]

What model Wi-Fi card does your PC have installed now?

[Khronos]

sorry for the late reply, how do I check which WiFi card I have?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Go to the device manager.

Click to expand the Network Adapters device manager category, and there you will find the name and model number of the wireless network adapter.

[Khronos]

they don't really show that their a wifi card but if i had to guess it's probably the realtek PCIe Adapter one

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You are correct.

You PC has a Realtek RTL8821CE Wi-Fi adapter.

Here's the problem with trying to replace that card...

The card only needs one antenna wire to work, so that is all HP installed in your PC.

A better internal Wi-Fi adapter would require two antenna wires in order to work properly.

My recommendation would be to see if updating the Wi-Fi card driver to the latest version currently available helps anything.

2024.10.228.9      12/07/2023

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp150501-151000/sp150721.exe

The RTL8821CE specifications indicate that it has a maximum throughput of 433 MBPS on the 5.0 GHz Wi-Fi band when there is an excellent Wi-Fi signal.

If updating the Realtek Wi-Fi driver doesn't help, I recommend you purchase a USB AX Wi-Fi adapter and that should speed up the Wi-Fi considerably.

Amazon.com : usb ax wifi 6 adapter

[Khronos]

 Do you mind giving me the site you found the driver on? idk what type of file it is and would like to look into it because I don't like downloading radndom files 

also im looking at the wifi adapter and saw that it's similar to a wifi extender. i recently got a wifi extender and also using ethernet in a way and haven't seen a difference in download speed or upload speed. Do you think a wifi adapter will do a better job?

( https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Extender-RE550-1900Mbps-Wireless/dp/B08TLT65WM/)

[Paul_Tikkanen]

I got the driver from the HP Probook G9 support page.

HP ProBook 450 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC Software and Driver Details

A Wi-Fi adapter is different than a range extender.

That wouldn't help the Realtek wifi adapter' performance any unless your PC is currently getting a poor Wi-Fi signal where it is located.

[Khronos]

i see im looking at the drivers and it's for a notebook, i have a pavilion desktop. Is it any different for the desktop version if there is one?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

It doesn't matter.

The same model and type M.2 Wi-Fi adapter is used in both notebook and desktop PC's.

The driver from the HP 450 G9 is guaranteed to install on your PC's Wi-Fi card and will install the driver version and date I had posted earlier.