My daughter lives in rural Wyoming. Before moving there, she had a tower computer built for her that she uses for her voice artist freelance work. The computer does not have a wifi adapter, but does have an ethernet card. She's tried a Netgear Nighthawk A7000 USB adapter, but it frequently disconnects and sometimes won't connect to her wifi network at all. We've spent hours on the phone updating drivers and trying different things, but it doesn't improve.
She's thinking about installing a pci-e wifi adapter, but it appears she doesn't have any open slots. (She ran the HWINFO app and sent me its report.) Can she just remove the ethernet card and replace it with a wifi adapter? Does any software or driver need to be uninstalled? Does something need to change in the BIOS? I know just enough to really screw things up...
Her configuration is:
Motherboard: MSI B150 PC MATE (MS-7971)
Chipset: Intel B150 (Skylake PCH-H)
BIOS date: 7/27/2016. BIOS version: C.80
Power supply: EVGA 500 watt Quiet PS
OS: Windows 10 Home (64 bit), Build 18363.900 (1909/November 2019 Update). UEFI Boot.
Motherboard Slots: 1xPCI, 5xPCI Express x1, 1xPCI Express x16
PCI Express Version Supported: v3.0
USB Version Supported: v3.0
Ethernet Adapter: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
ISP: It's wireless that's transmitted from a mountaintop to a small dish on the side of their house.
Router: Linksys EA6350
Thanks!
She's thinking about installing a pci-e wifi adapter, but it appears she doesn't have any open slots. (She ran the HWINFO app and sent me its report.) Can she just remove the ethernet card and replace it with a wifi adapter? Does any software or driver need to be uninstalled? Does something need to change in the BIOS? I know just enough to really screw things up...
Her configuration is:
Motherboard: MSI B150 PC MATE (MS-7971)
Chipset: Intel B150 (Skylake PCH-H)
BIOS date: 7/27/2016. BIOS version: C.80
Power supply: EVGA 500 watt Quiet PS
OS: Windows 10 Home (64 bit), Build 18363.900 (1909/November 2019 Update). UEFI Boot.
Motherboard Slots: 1xPCI, 5xPCI Express x1, 1xPCI Express x16
PCI Express Version Supported: v3.0
USB Version Supported: v3.0
Ethernet Adapter: RealTek Semiconductor RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
ISP: It's wireless that's transmitted from a mountaintop to a small dish on the side of their house.
Router: Linksys EA6350
Thanks!