Upgrading Wi-Fi Card

[prawn432]

Hello,

I've been meaning to replace the wi-fi card on my Probook X360 435 G8.

It currently has an RTL8822CE adapter installed, and I'm wondering if it's possible to replace it with a MT7925 wi-fi 7 adapter from mediatek, and would drivers be available?

[erico]

You will likely have to look to MediaTek and Microsoft for Windows 11 drivers for the device.

There are drivers available.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @prawn432 

I would speculate that the odds of a Wi-Fi 7card working in your notebook are not very good.

There are no discussions on this forum where anyone has tried to upgrade the Wi-Fi card in your notebook's model series.

It would be a complete experiment on your part.

The card was not offered as an option in the model series (see chapter 3 of the service manual).

Maintenance and Service Guide

HP did offer the Intel AX200 Wi-Fi card with the following part number, which would still be an improvement over the RTL8822CE.

Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 802.11ax 2 × 2 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (non-vPro)    HP part # L35282-002

You can find this part number on eBay:

L35282-002 for sale | eBay

But if you want to try the MT7925 card, HP has the drivers for it.

HP ProBook 445 14 inch G10 Notebook PC (711K2AV) Software and Driver Details

OPERATING SYSTEM(S):
Microsoft Windows 11 version 21H2 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 11 version 22H2 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 11 version 23H2 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 11 version 24H2 (64-bit)

LANGUAGE(S): Global

ENHANCEMENTS:
- Includes the following drivers: MT7921 Driver, version 3.0.1.1327 MT7922 Driver, version 3.4.0.1088 MT7902 Driver, version 3.4.0.1088 MT7925 Driver, version 5.4.0.2530

If you do, please post back and let us know if it worked.

The HP part number/description for the card is:

WLAN module (MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 MT7925 Bluetooth 5.4)   HP part # N64647-005

[prawn432 · Accepted solution]

Update: it works

After installing drivers for it, had a little problem with the Bluetooth, which turns out was caused by the old Realtek card still being detected in device manager. (uninstalled it via hidden devices)

Wi-fi now connects quite a bit faster (shaved a few seconds), but I unfortunately can't test any speed improvements because my access point is only a Wi-fi 4.

Bluetooth also had improvements, when connecting to a BT5.3 headset, It's now near instantaneous compared to the seconds it takes with the Realtek card.