I recently reviewed the Asus ROG Strix G16, which comes from the factory with a MediaTek Wi-Fi 6E (MT7922) M.2 card installed ...

Laptops can be tougher to fit a new card in. For older laptops (Wi-Fi 4 or earlier) and models where the Wi-Fi adapter is soldered onto the motherboard, it may be impossible.

An outdated Wi-Fi card could be to blame, and rather than tinkering around in laptop or PC trying to replace it, a USB Wi-Fi adapter is a simple and inexpensive solution.

A Wi-Fi card connects to your laptop either in your USB port or a wider card slot. This card generally is geared to a particular Wi-Fi network, so to use it you must be in range of a wireless ...

Beyond mere speed: How your laptop's Wi-Fi card affects real-world performance, and why latency matters more than advertised bandwidth.

To upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 you would customarily need to buy an entirely new laptop or replace the Wi-Fi card in your desktop. Netgear has come up with a clever way to avoid this.

With USB 3.0 being capable of 4.8 Gbps, it can keep up with the full capabilities of every Wi-Fi standard other than the newest one, 802.11ax, better known as Wi-Fi 6.

Wi-Fi 7 is in most of the new gaming laptops announced at CES 2024, including devices from Alienware, Lenovo, MSI, and HP, as Wi-Fi 7 certification rolls out. Big gaming laptop lines got Wi-Fi 7 ...