Asus G703 Wifi upgrade problem?

yolgezer · September 24, 2021

I want to update the wifi card of the Asus G703gs notebook model, which is the intel 9560 wifi card I am using, I have seen those who use it with the ax200, but is the new ax210 compatible?

Falcon1986 · September 24, 2021

5 hours ago, yolgezer said:

I want to update the wifi card of the Asus G703gs notebook model, which is the intel 9560 wifi card I am using, I have seen those who use it with the ax200, but is the new ax210 compatible?

As long as it has the A/E keys and is a similar form factor to the Intel 9560 (2230), it should be fine.

I'm not sure if it requires a special external antenna for 6GHz, but from the images I see, it uses the same 2 connectors as adapters from previous generations.

Donut417 · September 25, 2021

53 minutes ago, Falcon1986 said:

As long as it has the A/E keys and is a similar form factor to the Intel 9560 (2230), it should be fine.

I'm not sure if it requires a special external antenna for 6GHz, but from the images I see, it uses the same 2 connectors as adapters from previous generations.

My question is are there even WiFi 6E routers out yet? Ive been kinda curious on performance.

Falcon1986 · September 25, 2021

16 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

My question is are there even WiFi 6E routers out yet? Ive been kinda curious on performance.

There are a few, but they're quite expensive.

Alex Atkin UK · September 25, 2021

15 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

I'm not sure if it requires a special external antenna for 6GHz, but from the images I see, it uses the same 2 connectors as adapters from previous generations.

Its definitely going to be sub-optimal for 6Ghz likely reducing the range, but as its close to the top end of the 5Ghz range I'd expect it to still work fairly well close to the router/AP.

Also I found the AX210 faster on 5Ghz than the AX200 especially on the upper 5Ghz band. This is perhaps due to the support for 6Ghz meaning the amplifiers need to work better at the higher frequency range, whereas typically on 5Ghz people don't use the upper channels (the Nintendo Switch wont even see my AP on channel 149, I guess they didn't bother to update the regulatory domain info when the UK made that range license free a few years back).