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My laptop, MSI Raider, has a Wifi 6 chip on a card. Has anybody updated a Wifi 6 card to Wifi 7 and if so what did you purchase and how did it go? Remove 1 screw and card, insert new card and screw done.
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On Fri, 7/4/2025 2:02 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

My laptop, MSI Raider, has a Wifi 6 chip on a card. Has anybody updated a Wifi 6 card to Wifi 7 and if so what did you purchase and how did it go? Remove 1 screw and card, insert new card and screw done.

You have to fit the antenna cables. Their names are Squishy and Squashy.
Fat fingered individuals need not apply. There have been cases of antenna
cable damage, if you're not careful.

Have a read here, and see if a change is in the cards for you.

https://dongknows.com/wi-fi-7-upgrade-on-a-windows-computer/

Paul

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Paul wrote on 7/4/2025 5:23 PM:

On Fri, 7/4/2025 2:02 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

My laptop, MSI Raider, has a Wifi 6 chip on a card. Has anybody updated a >> Wifi 6 card to Wifi 7 and if so what did you purchase and how did it go?
Remove 1 screw and card, insert new card and screw done.

You have to fit the antenna cables. Their names are Squishy and Squashy.
Fat fingered individuals need not apply. There have been cases of antenna cable damage, if you're not careful.

Have a read here, and see if a change is in the cards for you.

https://dongknows.com/wi-fi-7-upgrade-on-a-windows-computer/

Paul

I wouldn't bother. There isn't much to be gained from wifi7. If his
current wifi6 card is functioning well, I'd leave it alone.

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On 2025/7/4 23:23:36, Paul wrote:

On Fri, 7/4/2025 2:02 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

My laptop, MSI Raider, has a Wifi 6 chip on a card. Has anybody updated a >> Wifi 6 card to Wifi 7 and if so what did you purchase and how did it go?
Remove 1 screw and card, insert new card and screw done.

You have to fit the antenna cables. Their names are Squishy and Squashy.
Fat fingered individuals need not apply. There have been cases of antenna cable damage, if you're not careful.

[]
I presume you (both) are talking of a laptop rather than a desktop (I
assume any flavour of wifi card in a desktop has an aerial socket).
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On Fri, 7/4/2025 8:02 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

On 2025/7/4 23:23:36, Paul wrote:

On Fri, 7/4/2025 2:02 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

My laptop, MSI Raider, has a Wifi 6 chip on a card.  Has anybody updated a >>> Wifi 6 card to Wifi 7 and if so what did you purchase and how did it go? >>> Remove 1 screw and card, insert new card and screw done.

You have to fit the antenna cables. Their names are Squishy and Squashy.
Fat fingered individuals need not apply. There have been cases of antenna
cable damage, if you're not careful.

[]
I presume you (both) are talking of a laptop rather than a desktop (I assume any flavour of wifi card in a desktop has an aerial socket).

The current motherboards have a module behind the I/O plate.
It has a metal cover. Inside is a laptop module, then adapter cables from
the terminals on the card, to the backplate surface. The module
has a screw or two, to hold the module securely, once it is fitted
in the socket behind the backplate. This means there are still cables.
Two screws hold the feet. One screw retains the side cover.

When you're facing the I/O plate on a modern motherboard, the
antenna fittings are screw-on items. It's inside the module
housing that Squishy and Squashy live. the "coax" on my module,
has a tiny outer diameter, and I'm not interested in further disassembly,
even though I'm not using the module at the moment. It's a
Mediatek and it is a 6E rather than a 7.

They can come with nice antennas. the antenna base has a powerful
magnet (keep this away from your HDD). On steel computer cases,
the antenna can hang off sideways, because of the magnet. Siting is
less difficult than you would expect, because of the magnet.

The disadvantage of motherboard modules, is they're 2x2 MIMO.

Yet, when I looked, nobody seemed to be making PCIe card versions
with any better setup on them. I have a couple PCIe ones (which
are just laptop ones and a socket), and they are no better than
the motherboard versions I've got. And I don't even have a router,
so all my experiments are Widi and Hotspot. I even managed to
get Miracast running between two Windows PCs, making the monitor
on the second PC, display what is on the first PC. When I have
Wifi installed, that's the only reason it is installed, is for those
sorts of experiments. During the Miracast experiment, it looks like
the fancy module was running at 11Mbit/sec (smokin).

Paul
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 18:12:00 -0500, Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
wrote:

Paul wrote on 7/4/2025 5:23 PM:

On Fri, 7/4/2025 2:02 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:

My laptop, MSI Raider, has a Wifi 6 chip on a card. Has anybody updated a >>> Wifi 6 card to Wifi 7 and if so what did you purchase and how did it go? >>> Remove 1 screw and card, insert new card and screw done.

You have to fit the antenna cables. Their names are Squishy and Squashy.
Fat fingered individuals need not apply. There have been cases of antenna
cable damage, if you're not careful.

Have a read here, and see if a change is in the cards for you.

https://dongknows.com/wi-fi-7-upgrade-on-a-windows-computer/

Paul

I wouldn't bother. There isn't much to be gained from wifi7. If his >current wifi6 card is functioning well, I'd leave it alone.

+1 There's no point unless the router is also upgraded. And there
doesn't seem to be any benefit from WiFi 7 unless located in an area
with lots of competition for bandwidth and equipped with WiFi 7
transmitters.
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