In 2023, we bought three of our children ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 AMD laptops. Later that year when they were away at college, we upgraded our home router to a TP-Link AX3000 WiFi 6 router. Recently my daughters, who are visiting for the summer, started complaining about their unreliable and slow internet connections. The laptops contain a Realtek WiFi card, and the wisdom of the internet determined that it doesn’t do well with WPA3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Possible solutions included 1. configuring the router to do WPA2 only, or 2. upgrade the the WiFi to a Intel AX210. My daughters chose the latter, and I helped them swap out the WiFi cards — it was fun, and it might’ve been their first time opening up a computer. The Intel WiFi chips allow their laptops to connect to the internet quite well. I’m glad there was a happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2023, we bought three of our children ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 AMD laptops. Later that year when they were away at college, we upgraded our home router to a TP-Link AX3000 WiFi 6 router. Recently my daughters, who are visiting for the summer, started complaining about their unreliable and slow internet connections. The laptops … <\/p>\n