AW 14 R1 - Functional Wifi 7 upgrade

[StripeySnake]

Hi everyone, I recently decided to upgrade the wireless card in my alienware 14 due to poor connectivity and non functional bluetooth. After doing a little research, it seemed the intel BE200 MIGHT be able to work with an mpcie to m.2 adapter, so it bit the bullet and tried it out of curiosity. To my surprise it seems to work completely fine, and I have a much more stable and reliable connection, as well as much higher download speeds over my wifi (9mbps -> 130mpbs in a location far from my router) I also have working bluetooth that can connect to my laptop anywhere in my house without interruption or issue (every other device I've used will disconnect or at least get choppy once there's a wall or two between me and the antennae)

I will test the card and adapter in an m17x r2 pretty soon out of curiosity, and it is pretty likely it will work in other haswell machines such as the 17 r1 and 18. I am not sure about other generations, but there's a decent chance it will work for them too. I think this is an extremely worthwhile upgrade if you daily drive your laptop, as it's brought my 14 from having no bluetooth and unreliable slow wifi connection to being able to connect to any network I encounter as well or better than any modern laptop I've seen. It's pretty amazing what these old things can do, even over a decade after they were made.