HQRP 802.11n MIMO Wi-Fi 300 Mb WLAN MiniPCI Card - Supports WPA (TKIP/AES), WEP, MIC, Shared Key, 802.1X

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• ASIN: B001NY1G00
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,311 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 15, 2008

Product Description

HQRP 300M MIMO Wireless N Wifi Mini PCI Card 802.11N Draft 2.0 (802.11G/B compatible)

Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 802.11n MiniPCI with 2 Pins, not 3! Finally!, January 27, 2009

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C. Hua "A Student" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HQRP 802.11n MIMO Wi-Fi 300 Mb WLAN MiniPCI Card - Supports WPA (TKIP/AES), WEP, MIC, Shared Key, 802.1X (Electronics)

There are so many old laptops out there with more potential than retail box machines today. I repair laptops on my spare time and generally scour the internet for spare parts, max out RAM, hard drive (SSD or 7200rpm), and WIRELESS. It's a hard thing to find 802.11g miniPCI devices that are fully compatible across machines because so many 802.11g adapters are sold and programmed with drivers specific to the laptops they came from. Unless you are getting an adapter from Intel, TP-Link is the ONLY other manufacturer of third party adapters with EASILY downloadable drivers for any machine, 2K, XP, Vista, x64. I installed this device, simply small driver, used Windows Zero Config, and got full 300Mb with an actual throughput of about 10MB to 15MB/sec on my 802.11n draft network. If you are looking to max out your old laptop, get 802.11n for a decent price, TP-link is probably the only easy way to go - no one else does MiniPCI 802.11n. (Remember, this is MiniPCI, NOT Mini Express)

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MiniPCI 802.11n at 300 Mbps, arrived fast, installed easy, works, February 20, 2009

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GDC "GDC" (Los Angeles, CA, US) - See all my reviews

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The card arrived fast, was easy to install and connect the two antenna wires, no drivers but easy to find online: http://www.tp-link.com/support/download.asp?a=1&m=TL-WN861N , drivers for vista, got 300 mbps from a Linksys WRT 350 N (same as a WRT 300 N) to the TP-Link card and good wireless distance.
Gave new life to my Dell M50 laptop. This card is much faster and more reliable than the ones commonly used now in new latops like the Intel 5100 AGN or 5300, that are supposed to but don't work with wifi N.
Thank you to the engineers of this card.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 300 Mbps almost all the time!, February 14, 2009

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Tom Eckman (Jackson, GA) - See all my reviews
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this is the first card I've put in a laptop where no matter where I went in my house, I got 5 bars and almost always a full 300 Mbps with my N router. I work on computers at my home office, so am used to N cards fluctuating from 65 to 270 Mbps, but this card picks up every network in the neighborhood and stays stable between 270 and 300 all the time. Amazing card, and certainly worth every penny . . .