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Make it 2 then. I want a good chipset with good drivers, that does not crash or has bad performance for weird reasons.

Until last year, I physically removed the default cards in any of my laptops to put a "known good"" Dell ath9k in place. I bought them in bulk, and I may still have some spares

i am now investigsting "modern" alternatives

Make it three, mostly because the wifi card in my laptop was a nightmare to get working in linux

I have an 8-year-old laptop. I'd love to upgrade the wifi to something that can connect to 5GHz APs.

They do make usb wifi dongles.

Ooh I actually did this a long time ago! Upgraded the Airport card in my PowerBook.

But, you know, once in 30 years of owning laptops.

Wifi and Bluetooth would both be great to be upgradable.