EliteBook Upgrade SIM Cellular To 5G

[Airul]

I currently have HP Elitebook 830 G8 that come with SIM Slot for cellular connectivity.

With our recent upgrade on communication to 5G, I was wondering if there's an upgrade path for my laptop from 4G to 5G capability? As I wouldn't want to buy a new laptop just for the sake of 5G connection only, and this laptop is working great for me.

[erico]

There is no upgrade path for an installed 4G transceiver in a laptop with cellular service capability  to 5G.

It is essentially as if you asked the same question about a mobile phone.

If you wanted 5G service for a mobile phone not capable of it, you would have to replace the phone with one that has 5G capability.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

@Airul 

Chapter 3, page 20 of the service manual indicates that there is a WWAN adapter with 5G support:

Maintenance and Service Guide (hp.com)

Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 LTE + 5G   HP part # L83053-001

[Airul]

Is the part interchangeable? I mean I just need to swap my current network card to this L83053-001 part only? No other changes required? Like additional antenna or something else? It's just plug and play with some software update that support this 5g network cellular? 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You should be able to just uninstall the old WWAN adapter and driver in the device manager, swap out the card and install the driver for it. but I suggest that you contact HP customer service to confirm.

Contact HP | HP® Malaysia

Apparently, HP has a new card that replaced that part number for the card I posted, M74018-001, and either part number is very expensive.

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