Customer Reviews

HQRP WiFi Network Mini-PCI Expansion Card for Laptop / Notebook - 802.11b/g/g+/n; plus HQRP Coaster

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With 802.11N being the current standard for wireless access, having an older laptop can be a pain since it probably won't support the standard. Whilst most older laptops support a mini PCI adaptor, the latest 'n' wireless cards seem to be PCI Express only. Step up the HQRP Mini-pci that supports everything up to and including wireless 'N'.

Great value and a great product, can add years of life to an older laptop. Highly recommended.

took over a week to get the card. Becareful when buying it. I put it in a Compaq Presario(6yrs old). Comes up with a 104 unsupported network device. Windows stops loading at that point. Took card out and restarted. After booting up I put the card back in while windows was running. Found the card and loaded drivers fine. Shut off computer,restarted laptop and 104 error comes back.

For those of you with Compaq or HP, the BIOS in these systems have a limited table of "valid" WiFi devices (and I read that some other manufacturers do, too). This is HP's (since HP owns Compaq) doing, and isn't the fault of the card. Amazon had to accept a PCI-Express card back from me twice, the first since it didn't seem to work and the second because I discovered elsewhere on the web, the existence of the restricted BIOS (and confirmed it by looking through the BIOS to find working chip IDs and obtaining and successfully using one of those, although not 'N').

Amazon should put a warning on all laptop components that tells the buyer to verify applicability before purchase especially on HP/Compaq and (I read) some IBM laptops.