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‎11-11-2018 08:16 PM

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Product: Pavilion 17-G133CY
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

Hi, I am looking to upgrade the Realtek wireless card in my laptop to the Intel 3165 Wireless because I would like 5GHz wireless. one question I would like to know is does my computer already have two antennas installed in the computer? I believe it does cause I have been inside the computer before for a few reasons. One for maintaince of the computers cooling and two because my hard drive failed during summer and I lost three years of data (Learn from me BACKUP YOUR DATA). The Realtek wireless card has become not enough for my liking anymore and would like to upgrade to the Intel 3165 WIreless card (I believe that is the one) for 5GHz and better Wifi over all. Ethernet is only 100mbps and is slow against some of my other computers running on 5GHz wireless.  So my question is does the machine have two cables going to the wireless card already? i would love to just be able to swap them and install the new drivers for the intel card.

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‎11-11-2018 08:24 PM

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@Dudefoxlive

 

The following link shows its specs

 

   https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c04773981

 

It has 1 antenna for wifi.

 

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BH
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‎11-12-2018 08:09 AM

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Will the Intel Wireless card work with the one antenna or do I need the second antenna for it to work correctly?

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