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Upgrading Router; Should I Upgrade WiFi Card?
Looking at various router options. Right now I'm leaning towards the RAX40. Two primary devices are a pair of laptops, two Dell XPS13 models. One has a Killer 1535 wifi card; the other an Intel AC...
Buy the original Intel AX200, easily ~$20 on ebay. The AX1650 is just a rebrand of that card, it uses the same drivers obviously as Intel is the creator. Only difference is that Killer card comes with the ability install the atrocious Killer Software Center thats more bane than boon and you are paying more for the "Killer" branding. They really dont make any cards or drivers they only rebrand Intel and Qualcommc cards, they use the same drivrs as stock cards too...
I mean there is a increase in bandwidth, in realworld use I found about a 10-25% gain over ac on 5Ghz. On 2.4 Ghz this is where the biggest difference occurs, up to a 2x increase over n, on HT20, less so on HT40 in my testing. Considering if you need high bandwidth you'd be using 5Ghz anyway, unless you have gigabit internet or you do a lot of transfers on LAN to NAS or something, you wont really notice much difference in day to day use. Well battery life is supposed to increase a little but I'm not sure if the current routers support most of the AX features yet. I believe certain features from the final draft such as BSS coloring are missing.