About Dell Latitude 7290 upgrade

Hi all,

I have an old Dell Latitude 7290

I would like to ask if anyone who is using this model laptop or knows if it is possible to just upgrade the wifi card to ax (wifi 6) standard?

Do I need to make any changes in the BIOS, such as flashing the third-party BIOS to whitelist it?

Thanks.

Your laptop may have several different wifi adapter references from the factory.
If you go to the page of your laptop you will find the different wifi adapters.
I'm going, you can take in the references below
Intel AX200 or intel AX201 for wifi 6. The format should be M.2 2230 (but if you open it and take a picture of the wifi adapter it will be better), and with vpro technology you should be fine, the Intel Wireless -AC 8265, if it's this one in your laptop, is vpro according to your laptop documentation. There are the same adapter without vpro.

difference between ax200 and ax 201: What is the difference between the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 and Intel...

Thanks all.

But now what I concern is, do I need to make any changes in the BIOS, such as flashing the third-party BIOS to whitelist it? I know there are some models like ThinkPad series needed this procedure for replacing existing default hardware. I am not sure for Latitude 7290.

Thanks.

I changed the wifi adapter on my dell, I didn't need a third party bios. I had been on the page of my laptop to look at what references of wifi adapters there were in the drivers to be sure that it was compatible and that there was the official Dell driver. Dell is not like lenovo, I don't think.

Got it, Thanks all bros for your replies~!

itsme1 said:

Dell is not like lenovo, I don't think.

that's right.

Dell is definitely not like Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) as HP & Lenovo laptops only accept "whitelisted" wifi cards

You could also go the USB route, but do you? Do you need 802.11ax? I mean, do you have a router and other devices that support the standard?

As far as I'm concerned it's a marketing gimmick until more and more devices catch on. Actually, a lot of ISPs use Wi-Fi as a marketing gimmick in a lot of ways... And BTW, 5 GHz and 6 GHz are absolute dreadful frequencies to use for Wi-Fi unless you have a certain distance from the router or line of sight without walls and whatnot in the way. The higher in frequency you go, the more line of sight you need to be. This is why a lot of IoT (think Ring doorbells, wireless cameras, etc) is 2.4 GHz. If they manufactured that stuff for 802.11ac people would fill the Amazon reviews and whatnot with comments of constant connection issues. I wish they'd just use 900 MHz and 1.2 GHz. But I doubt that will ever happen for reasons...

You could accomplish a nice 5 GHz/6 GHz mesh system though...


Edit-

Ah, looks like 802.11ax DOES use 2.4 GHz as well as 5 GHz and 6 GHz.