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HP Pavilion 15 laptop - WiFi/WLAN card upgrade help
Hello,
I have a question about my secondary laptop which i could do with upgrading. It is a HP Pavilion laptop, model number 15-p189na. It runs Windows 10.
The day to day usage of this laptop is great, it has an i5-4288U, 8GB and 1.5TB storage. The only problem I have with this laptop is the abysmal Wi-Fi speeds that I get, it has a 2.4ghz only Wi-Fi card which I believe is a Realtek RT8723BE. It does have Bluetooth as well but in order to get decent speeds, I have to use a 5GHz USB plug in wireless adapter.
I have heard that HP whitelist some of their components, so you can only upgrade to a certain model. Is there any way I can upgrade the Wi-Fi card to something that supports wireless AC, as well as 5GHz?
I am not worried about the disassembly process as I also plan to upgrade from the 1.5TB spinny disk to a 512GB SSD, as well as a RAM upgrade from 8GB to 16GB.
Any help and advice greatly appreciated!