I have a Dell Latitude D630 laptop. Presently it has dual band (but dual a & g, not n) Dell 1490 wireless card in it. Looking at the laptop specs, it had several draft N cards for options. I opened it up and found only 2 antennas.
My question:
To take advantage of my 5ghz band on the router, could I get one of the 2.4ghz/5ghz mini-pcie wireless N cards and replace my 1490 or would more messing be needed to use 5ghz? Some cards are 3 antenna cards, others say they will work with 2. Will any of the 3 antenna N cards work with just 2?
Here are the options that laptop could of had:
WLAN
Dell Wireless 1390 (802.11g); Dell Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g); Dell Wireless 1505 (802.11a/g/Draft n); Intel PRO/Wireless 3945AG (802.11a/g); Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN (802.11a/g/ Draft n) Mini-Cards, Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth 2.0 internal wireless card (upgradable to Bluetooth 2.1 EDR) (optional).
My question:
To take advantage of my 5ghz band on the router, could I get one of the 2.4ghz/5ghz mini-pcie wireless N cards and replace my 1490 or would more messing be needed to use 5ghz? Some cards are 3 antenna cards, others say they will work with 2. Will any of the 3 antenna N cards work with just 2?
Here are the options that laptop could of had:
WLAN
Dell Wireless 1390 (802.11g); Dell Wireless 1490 (802.11a/g); Dell Wireless 1505 (802.11a/g/Draft n); Intel PRO/Wireless 3945AG (802.11a/g); Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN (802.11a/g/ Draft n) Mini-Cards, Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth 2.0 internal wireless card (upgradable to Bluetooth 2.1 EDR) (optional).