You do not have to install extra antennas, just upgrade! Longer battery life with a Half Size Card in comparison to Full Size Card!
Intel® WiFi Adapters, which correspond to the 802.11 N version, offer up to 300 Mbit/s bandwidth for today's demanding applications, such as for streaming HD videos or backing up media files. In order that you can go online at various locations, Intel products that correspond to the 802.11 N version are backward compatible to older 802.11a/b/g networks, which are now in use.
If your notebook's motherboard has the following chipsets, you have the opportunity to upgrade your wireless card:
AMD CPUs are not supported!
Requirements/Features for the wireless card:
1. This card is a half-size mini-PCI Express card, so your notebook should have a spare half-size min-PCI slot.
2. The card has two antenna ports. Thus, two antennas should already be installed in your notebook.
3. The card does not work with IBM and HP notebooks that have a BIOS lock.
Features and benefits:
Device Type/Form Factor/Interface (Bus) Type: Network Card / Plug-in Card/ PCI Express Mini Card
Width/Depth/Hight/Weight: 3 cm / 0.33 cm / 2.68 cm / 4g
Data Transfer Rate: 300 Mbps
Features/Connectivity/Data Link Protocol : Support for Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) / Wireless / IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n (draft 2.0)
Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI Express Mini Card
