Update wireless adapter on Sony Vaio VPCF23EFX

Hi all

I want to improve my Atheros AR9287 wireless adapter that came with my Vaio laptop.

I try to have the party upgrade compatible with the dual-band standard and therefore, compatible with our new 802.11ac 802.11ac router.

1 is it possible?

2 the warranty of your laptop?

3. what features should I know to make sure that I have replace the Atheros AR9287 with a compatible part?

4. any consideration that everyone thinks I should be aware?

Thank you

edsager

Simple answer is probably yes. From my experience, Sony doesn't have a white list of BIOS for WLAN and WWAN like HP or Lenovo cards (right I CALL YOU OF HP and Lenovo!)

Your computer has an access panel at the bottom of the laptop user? If so, have you tried to open it to see what is available? Most manufacturers make the adapter wireless network accessible from the bottom panel or under the keyboard.

I can't say what expansion supported by your portable computer based on interface specifications:

http://eSupport.Sony.com/us/p/model-home.pl?MDL=VPCF23EFX&template_id=1&Region_ID=1&tab=manuals#/man...

But it is probably mini PCIe or mini PCI. The difference is quite obvious because of the size and the number of connectors. M2 is the new interface used by the last SSD and some WLAN adapters, but the probability that your computer is using m2 is weak.

See Mini PCIe vs Mini PCI

http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_Mini_Card

See m2

http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

This type of upgrade should not void your warranty, because it's an aftermarket upgrade, not a change (for example cooling mods, because you replacings stock thermal compound and by adding coppershims etc to make this kind of change), however, to keep the old card around in the case where you have to call support because they like stock options in laptops before providing support if they tell me that they fully support you because they don't know if updates of spare caused problems, blah blah blah.

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